Sentence examples for delay him from inspiring English sources

Not wanting to delay him, I said I'd be fine.

Your character doesn't arrive as an outsider in a new city and start carrying out the requests of people whose only purpose is seemingly to delay him.

It had been 18 days since Garcia, who had pitched an inning of relief against the Boston Red Sox last Sunday, had started a game (the exhibition finale on March 29), and the miserable forecast Saturday threatened to delay him further.

Dr. Hayes and other Berkeley faculty members present at meetings about his work say that when Dr. Hayes presented his findings to a panel of university scientists formed by Ecorisk, some of the panel members tried to delay him from publicizing his initial findings.

As he misses a ride to Taylor's compound and learns that a broken radio will further delay him, he encapsulates his reaction in a short, explosive paragraph that begins, "My parents raised me to love all the earth's peoples" and ends with an intimate, ugly fantasy about screaming a racial epithet repeatedly until "one of these young men emptied a whole clip into me".

The car skids to a halt and a small, furious man in a suit leaps out from the back seat, apoplectic that the police have dared to delay him.

Danny Meyer had some injuries that delayed him".

When the waiter was asked what had delayed him, he grinned and gestured toward the Léger.

He explains that a technical misunderstanding delayed him moving up a rank, but that it should be sorted out soon.

Then he followed the parallel leg of the piano down from the closed keyboard lid to the gilt claw that had so delayed him.

"He knows it's delaying him, but he also knows they're concerned about his situation and that they want what's best".