Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [vb pp] he for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was very much a revenge match for White — Spijkers had beaten him for a bronze in the Seoul Olympics , though then White was injured . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The incident with the muntjac doe had distracted him for a while but gradually the sense of exultation in his deeds of the previous evening returned and blotted everything else from his mind . |
| 4 | Palottino had no answer to that , any more than Zen himself , though the question had tormented him for the whole drive back to Perugia . |
| 5 | He filled the kettle and set it on the hob , then went through to the front room , closed the shutters , and tried radioing on the frequency Caspar had given him for the US Embassy in Belpan City . |
| 6 | The first reference is a friendly one : ‘ Lord Goodman had always been very generous with his legal advice to Labour MPs , including me , and Harold Wilson had used him for a number of assignments , including an exploratory visit with Sir Max Aitken to Ian Smith in August 1968 on the possibilities of a settlement . |
| 7 | Just turned forty , Frank is married to his job , his wife has left him for a colleague , and when he encounters the sexually predatory Helen ( Ellen Barkin ) he breaks one of the first rules in the book by falling for a suspect . |
| 8 | Owen had taken him for a Sudani because his face was black . |
| 9 | At the slow , jerking speed of city traffic at night , he drove toward the address that Ashdown had given him for the rendezvous . |
| 10 | It was also believed that Menelik visited his father Solomon , and on his departure contrived to substitute a copy of the Ark of the Covenant that his father had given him for the original , which he then carried off to Aksum . |
| 11 | His father had named him for the Mughal Babur , a conqueror , a hard drinking , hard riding Turk who loved poetry , laughter and gardens . |
| 12 | The clever Ephron has taken him for a very long ride indeed . |
| 13 | ‘ Maverick limey has negotiated the hell-fire of the Brain and the almighty trail-boss Midwinter has summoned him for a special assignment . ’ |
| 14 | One of his wins had qualified him for the National so when he came up for sale at Doncaster , Kempton secured him for 2,000 guineas on behalf of two of his owners who were keen to have a runner in the race . |
| 15 | They missed out on Shearer , who joined Kenny Dalglish at Ewood Park after Ferguson had tracked him for a year . |
| 16 | Producer-director Arne Glimcher had tapped him for the role after catching his performance in Pedro Almodóvar 's Matador , in which he plays a melancholic bullfighter wannabe who faints at the sight of blood and gets dizzy watching clouds . |
| 17 | According to Wainfleet Ruby had asked him for a photograph of the escaped prisoner from the newspaper 's files , passed her hands over it and discovered that Sniffy was in Epping Forest . |
| 18 | A 13-month-old London boy drowned when he fell off a ‘ topple-proof ’ bath chair while his mother had left him for a few moments . |