Example sentences of "[verb] him [adv] for the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Rather than selling him , we are about to offer James a new and extended contract which will keep him here for the next two or three years . ’ |
| 2 | Impulses of attraction towards beautiful forms or faces troubled him frequently for the next two years at Oxford . |
| 3 | For all that , had she been right just to abandon him pitilessly for the first dashing knight to Pass her way ? |
| 4 | Studying him now , dispassionately , without the emotional blindness of the aftermath of her accident , or the initial shock of finding that he was last night 's rescuer , it was like seeing him properly for the first time … |
| 5 | At the last he was in front , but he was dead tired and Winter could do nothing to hold him together for the final desperate few yards to the line . |
| 6 | His sports and hobbies frequently took him away for the best part of the weekend ; work also ate into parts of Saturday and Sunday . |
| 7 | He looked at Mitch , studying him closely for the first time . |
| 8 | I had been telling him so for the last few weeks . |
| 9 | Until that moment they were reconciled to leaving him behind for the proposed four-week tour . |