Example sentences of "[verb] he for [det] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For Prothero is the demon-king of the Poundian pantomime , ever since Pound cast him for this role by printing , at the end of his essay on De Gourmont — originally in the Little Review , then in Instigations ( 1920 ) — the letter which Prothero wrote him in October 1914 : |
| 2 | Nothing in our four days on the felucca with this sullen boy had prepared us for this , as nothing could have prepared him for that afternoon in Asyut . |
| 3 | Nothing in his many years ' service had prepared him for this sort of situation . |
| 4 | Sir Charles , whose practice as a family solicitor in Hertfordshire had not prepared him for this sort of thing , was losing control . |
| 5 | It was strange how she loved him for that business with Tommaso so long ago , how she had such a feeling for the intricate conventions of the old code , and saw him as a man of honour , a duellist . |
| 6 | The Tryons , in return , have frequently joined him for some fishing at Balmoral . |
| 7 | but yesterday morn he was , yesterday morning he started crying did n't he , I did n't leave him for any length of time |
| 8 | His mother had nagged him for some time about entering his lodger 's room . |