Example sentences of "[verb] he for the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 The other gentleman to whom I referred , Mr. Williams , was deported some little while ago , it being cheaper to deport him than prosecute him for the gross fraud that he has perpetrated against the United Kingdom .
2 Like if I interviewed Johnny Thunders , it was n't to meet him for the first time , it was to try to save his career . ’
3 But he says the payout ca n't begin to compensate him for the devastating effect the accident has had on his life .
4 But in the former case the plaintiff will have a capital asset in his hands , and he is only entitled to recover damages to compensate him for the additional expenditure involved .
5 In all such cases the plaintiff is entitled to damages to compensate him for the lost benefit .
6 He told the rector at Boston that this was a person of unusual spiritual powers ; that how to train him for the whole Church was a responsibility ; that he was anxious that these abilities should not be confined to academic spheres .
7 Britain 's golden boy who lost his shine when newcomer David Grindley beat him for the final place in today 's 400 metres final is ready to take a year off from the track if it means he can beat the trouble .
8 " Oh , that 's you , Fiver , is it ? " said Bigwig , noticing him for the first time .
9 After it had trapped him for the third time , he ordered all the cages to be thrown into the sea .
10 To cover the fact that she had far too many feelings altogether , she ignored him for the first part of the morning .
11 ‘ We do n't want you to be neglected , ’ I told him for the umptieth time .
12 ‘ Not today , thank you , ’ I told him for the umptieth time .
13 His father had named him for the Mughal Babur , a conqueror , a hard drinking , hard riding Turk who loved poetry , laughter and gardens .
14 ‘ You dropped him for the Prime Minister . ’
15 After meeting him for the first time , Vincent thought that he must be wealthy .
16 Talking to him is always like meeting him for the first time — he never comes out with the same old stuff and you can look forward to an interesting conversation .
17 She glanced up at him , feeling oddly shy , almost as though she were meeting him for the first time with no doubts , no mistrust , between them .
18 It was an experience which steeled him for the future task of having as many as a dozen major country houses under construction in any one year .
19 ‘ He claims to have met him for the first time at the Windorah ; it 's a bar frequented mainly by foreigners .
20 ‘ I have a proposition for you , ’ he said to Burkett and as he said it he weighed up his man as if he had met him for the first time .
21 Shannon had met him for the first time when he 'd arrived to film the pilot episode , and her dislike for the golden Adonis had been instant .
22 One day soon she would see him for the last time .
23 A crowd of eager customers would be awaiting his arrival outside the shops and attack him for the particular colour , size or style of dress they had been waiting for .
24 The German and American had crossed swords on and off the track throughout 1990 and it seemed as if Bradl needed Kocinski 's ‘ presence ’ to inspire him for the final showdown .
25 COMIC Rowan Atkinson is anything but funny in real life and is convinced people who meet him for the first time think he is a disappointment .
26 In 1984 " Union Jack " Hayward received £50,000 to console him for the untrue allegation that he was involved in a murder plot .
27 The ‘ fine boy ’ with the grim destiny is Thomas Fox , a boy of fifteen whose father , a small farmer , has entrusted him for the first time with a flock of sheep for Portsmouth market .
28 According to Constanze , he received the news with painful resignation , saying that the situation would have enabled him for the first time to have sufficient leisure to write what he wanted , and to justify his growing reputation ; but instead only death awaited him .
29 A Jewish chronicler attributed the success of the expedition entirely to the youthful Ensign , calling him for the first time ‘ Cidi ’ , the equivalent of Mio Cid ‘ my lord ’ .
30 In the car on the return journey , clutching the row of books like a concertina , Mungo thanked him for the third time , promising to pay him the moment they got home .
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