Example sentences of "him for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | More than a hundred victims have now approached him for legal advice and doctors are still seeing new cases six weeks after chryptosporidium was first identified in the Farmoor reservoir . |
| 2 | Stephane Grappelli , the renowned jazz violinist , employed English agents who booked him for certain concerts . |
| 3 | Xishe 's wife is allowed to see him for 45 minutes twice a year . |
| 4 | She had vowed to honour him for better or for worse , just as he must honour her in sickness as he did in health . |
| 5 | She was subsequently alone with him for much of a two-hour period when his condition deteriorated and one consultant thought he was going to die , the court heard . |
| 6 | He had confidence in Timman 's ability to hold this theoretically drawn endgame , but tested him for four hours on Monday before agreeing to share the point . |
| 7 | Livingston , who has vowed to clear his name after British athletics chiefs banned him for four years for drugs cheating , said : ‘ I am being imprisoned for something I have n't done . |
| 8 | He began ‘ running down ’ to Suffolk at weekends on his own , and that Christmas he had his wife accompany him for four days , taking all the Christmas food with them . |
| 9 | BOWLER Vic Macey joked he 'd break a pal 's leg if he hit him for four at a Paignton cricket match — then DID accidentally after the game . |
| 10 | I cuddled him for four hours until he died in my hands . |
| 11 | Akram swept him for four between the two fielders in front of the grandstand . |
| 12 | I was with him for four hours and got nowhere ; I requested colleagues to have a crack at him all to no avail . |
| 13 | A 19-year-old single girl took an overdose of tablets after claiming to be in love with a priest — despite the fact she had not spoken to him for four years . |
| 14 | The Judge held that George was responsible for instigating the crime and jailed him for four and a half years . |
| 15 | Northamptonshire signed him for four years he shared digs with Colin Milburn and though he progressed less spectacularly than his former Durham colleague , Scott proved an able bowler . |
| 16 | And then the next little breath he 's off to America and you do n't see him for four weeks . |
| 17 | His wife sat with him for thirteen hours , and he clutched her hand as he struggled for life . |
| 18 | She lived with him for 11 years . |
| 19 | It has now been decided to write to Rangers asking for their views on statements attributed to the three men since Ferguson 's club dropped him for disciplinary reasons , after which it came to light that Murray had spoken to United 's manager/chairman , Jim Mclean , about buying the Scotland internationalist . |
| 20 | The shadow of his predecessor , great Prime Minister as she was , has hung heavy over him for 16 months . |
| 21 | At dawn on Friday , John Major came of age , shaking off the shadow of Mrs Thatcher that had dogged him for 16 months . |
| 22 | You went out and about for twelve weeks with your tutor constable , if you like , they call it puppy walking he was the highly trained policeman and I was the new policeman , I was with him for twelve weeks . |
| 23 | And there usually was somebody ready to fight him for twelve , especially on a Saturday night . |
| 24 | He is clearly rather tired of preaching the design gospel when it has been evident to him for many years the fundamental role it plays in good business practice . |
| 25 | That five was to haunt him for many months afterwards . |
| 26 | Doubts about the genuineness of his own faith troubled him for many years . |
| 27 | Guilt besieged him for many years . |
| 28 | Having known him for many months in Vancouver , and relishing his word-pictures of Yukon characters like ‘ dangerous Dan McGrew ’ and ‘ the lady known as Lou ’ , I tried to see in Service 's eyes the modern Yukon nearly half a century after the gold rush . |
| 29 | It was a perfect opportunity for some writers to express the resentment which they had harboured against him for many years , and he himself was convinced that such people detested him because he had acquired British citizenship . |
| 30 | She had known him for many years . |