Example sentences of "him [prep] [adv] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And because he thought she had followed him for just that purpose ? |
| 2 | ‘ I admired him for so many years and was very proud to count myself among his close friends . |
| 3 | He felt a touch of the animated earnestness that had carried him through so many meetings . |
| 4 | ‘ Wrong , ’ he replied , and , while Fabia stared at him with yet more amazement , ‘ I was impatient to talk to you , to see you , ’ he owned . |
| 5 | Instead , he ended up in charity administration , but his earlier sense of a religious vocation has left him with quite another side : a passion for Romanesque churches . |
| 6 | The 24-year-old has suffered a string of injuries this season , and recent health problems have left him with too little time to regain full fitness . |
| 7 | In my experience the most effective way to resist his attempts to snag you is to heave at him with as much side-strain as your tackle strength will allow . |
| 8 | Standing up slowly , she faced him with as much composure as she could muster . |
| 9 | A small frown drew her brows together and she arched back to look at him with as much objectivity as she could summon up . |
| 10 | She clutched her dress to her and looked at him with as much scorn as she could . |
| 11 | His mother should n't of sent him with so much money . |
| 12 | Another defeat , or even a draw for Taylor , will leave him with so much work to do to close the gap . |
| 13 | After all , it was the third time the police had visited him in as many days . |
| 14 | " I have n't told him in so many words , but he 'd understand . |
| 15 | ‘ As for any home , I 've none , nor never did have , ’ she said quickly to distract him from too much thinking . |
| 16 | Alexander angrily complied , furious that the King could put him to so much trouble on a wild , bitterly cold night . |
| 17 | The house , Wychwood , from which I like to think that Eliot derived the name in The Family Reunion , was easily within walking distance ; but we felt some responsibility for getting the great man from London without subjecting him to too much fatigue ; and if my brother reached home by a circuitous route , it was partly in order to show off the beauty of the place . |
| 18 | It must have seemed clear to him at once that Tolkien was a man of literary genius , and this fact only brought home to him his own sense of failure as a writer . |