Example sentences of "him [adv] for [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Studying him now , dispassionately , without the emotional blindness of the aftermath of her accident , or the initial shock of finding that he was last night 's rescuer , it was like seeing him properly for the first time … |
| 2 | I had been telling him so for the last few weeks . |
| 3 | There had been a period when he allowed Barbara Castle , Dick Crossman and George Wigg , all of whom suffered from the belief that politics was a conspiracy , to influence him too much , but in later years he had broken free from them and I suddenly realised how much I had got used to him being there to shoulder the final responsibility , to feeling able to turn to him naturally for a second opinion and for well-informed advice . |
| 4 | No doubt this ‘ concession ’ was to soften him up for the next examination . |
| 5 | Perhaps he thought that if he made a success of the concert party , word would get around amongst show business that here was someone to keep an eye on , and his big chance might come ; that someone important in the music world might come up to him with a contract in his hand and sign him up for the next ten years as a successor to Sir Malcolm Sargeant . |
| 6 | ‘ Rather than selling him , we are about to offer James a new and extended contract which will keep him here for the next two or three years . ’ |
| 7 | For all that , had she been right just to abandon him pitilessly for the first dashing knight to Pass her way ? |
| 8 | Impulses of attraction towards beautiful forms or faces troubled him frequently for the next two years at Oxford . |
| 9 | I think it dawned on him then for the first time that there were two streams , and that the pond was not formed by Burden Creek . |
| 10 | He looked at Mitch , studying him closely for the first time . |