Example sentences of "[verb] him for the [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Certainly Jenny did not see him for the first few evenings she was at Moorlake . |
| 2 | Subconsciously he must have been expecting something like this : his first reaction was not surprise but an intensification of the dull misery which had enveloped him for the last 24 hours . |
| 3 | I am certainly going to miss him , I have only really known him for the past seven days , but it seems like years . |
| 4 | And the first step is to stop treating him like a tube of toothpaste — something you can squeeze the contents out of whenever it suits you — and start appreciating him for the easy-going patient guy he obviously is . |
| 5 | Hill 's ban ended in time for the 1987 World Cup but Bristol 's Richard Harding , who replaced him for the final Five Nations match — a stirring victory over Scotland — was first-choice in Australia and Hill 's last game for two years was against the United States . |
| 6 | In doing so , he had to jettison most of what those close to him had been telling him for the past 16 months . |
| 7 | When they ignore the whole idea of pandering to a European market , they can be quite good , as in Tarkovsky 's Italian-funded productions , where he just carried on making the same film that had obsessed him for the past 30 years , only a bit more slowly . |
| 8 | The same sight would confront him that had confronted him for the past fifteen years . |
| 9 | With surprise , Juliet realised he was referring to his hospital episode , when she had nursed him for the last two weeks of his stay . |
| 10 | ‘ We have him for the last five games of the League run-in . |