Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] him for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had looked at him for a long time , at first solemnly and then with mounting anger . |
| 2 | Yet , I am not writing about him for the above reasons , it 's rather on account of an unlikely weakness of his than for one of his many strengths . |
| 3 | It was full of pieces of paper , which he dropped behind him for the other boys to follow . |
| 4 | He applied for a grant of land and this was sold to him for a nominal sum . |
| 5 | One of these , Jimmie , was used by him for a harmless demonstration of the electrocardiogram at the Royal Society and became the subject of a famous parliamentary reply to a question from the anti-vivisection lobby ( Hansard , 8 July 1909 ) . |
| 6 | Obviously unwilling , he asked for an absurd sum for doing so , but eventually Omar settled with him for a reasonable amount . |
| 7 | Émile Chaillot told me that he had telephoned the writer and spoken to him for a good seven minutes about what was going on in the music world . |
| 8 | The probation found a little stray dog called Benjy for me and I looked after him for a little while , but my money kept on going down and down and down . |
| 9 | Many remonstrated with him for a howling storm was raging outside , it was night and the journey was a dangerous one . |
| 10 | A couple of years earlier , when I was having a bad patch and went to him for a reassuring chat , he had told me not to worry about it . |
| 11 | I went to him for the political because I was a red hot loyalist at that time . |
| 12 | She stared at him for a long time . |
| 13 | Father Poole stared at him for a long while . |
| 14 | She stared at him for a long moment wondering if in her indignation she had hurt his feelings , but his eyes were narrowed and she could not read his expression . |
| 15 | She stared at him for a long moment before she took in what he had said . |
| 16 | Surere looked at him for a long time . |
| 17 | Bert looked at him for a full half minute . |
| 18 | I KNEW of Doctor Ladislav Mareda through British friends who had worked with him for the English-language section of Prague radio until the crushing of the Prague Spring in 1968 . |
| 19 | Jazz 's target was to stay with him for the full four minutes . |
| 20 | She gazed at him for a long time without being able to bring the appropriate words to her lips . |
| 21 | Frau Nordern gazed at him for an icy moment then stalked into the bedroom . |