Example sentences of "him for [adv] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mayli stared at him for just a second , then realised that the waiter would have given the alarm by now . |
| 2 | Margaret had been seeing him for nearly a year and Maura had the feeling that they were going to get married . |
| 3 | No , it was a farmer 's , and erm he did n't want to sell it , but I pursued him for nearly a year , and in the end he said that I could erm buy it and erm that 's when the project began . |
| 4 | She had n't been to see him for nearly a week , but that had happened before when the red-headed lout was staying at the farm . |
| 5 | ‘ He 'd never taken a woman on any of his expeditions before , so I nagged him for about a week and used all my female charm . |
| 6 | Stewart stayed with him for about an hour and a half and Lamb hung around for a while , but Smith was his main ally and , as the day ebbed away , it seemed as though only the new ball stood between England and a draw . |
| 7 | I 'm taking him for about an hour . |
| 8 | Dave Berrow , who has had committments to his Browing Starlets side which has cost him the chance to fish some possible points earning events , admits that the draw bag has n't been kind to him for quite a while . |