Sentence examples similar to I afford him from inspiring English sources

He is the sort of horse you would look at and think 'if I could afford him I'd have him'.

I would very much like to retain the services of David Rees for my pencil-sharpening needs, but I'm afraid I couldn't afford him.

"Now I say, 'Thank God for my decorator -- too bad I can't afford him anymore.' " Mr. Torres, at 29, is at the moment an out-of-work interior designer selling architectural books at Rizzoli's in SoHo and looking for a more suitable position in his spare time.

"I could finally afford him," Mr. Carter said.

He also paid tribute to a longtime Baruch accounting professor, Abraham J. Briloff, who, he said, served as his friend and financial adviser, beginning in "the early stages of my career, when I could not afford him".

It was at a period when I couldn't afford him.

"Tom has been an excellent servant of the club but I can't afford him.

I had to cut the phone off, then the gas, and eventually I asked my cousin in Howard Beach to take care of Blackie because I couldn't even afford him.

"I think this will afford him the opportunity to start working on it, and to work on it in a more intimate surrounding.

"He's a good player, but whether we can afford him I don't know.

If anyone wanted to buy him I don't think they could afford him.