Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [verb] [vb pp] he for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The clever Ephron has taken him for a very long ride indeed . |
| 2 | ‘ Maverick limey has negotiated the hell-fire of the Brain and the almighty trail-boss Midwinter has summoned him for a special assignment . ’ |
| 3 | Many footballers have matched him for decadence but few have lived out their decline quite as publicly as Slim Jim . |
| 4 | Lovell was a Bristol poet of minor talents whose rich Quaker family had disowned him for his marriage that year to a beautiful actress called Mary Fricker , one of five sisters already well known to Southey . |
| 5 | They had started off friends but Joseph 's first wife had left him for Leary . |
| 6 | Not that the Irish manager , Noel Murphy , has too many doubts : ‘ If only the Irish selectors had chosen him for their second game instead of bringing him in halfway through the campaign , he would be inked in by now . ’ |
| 7 | His passionate compression , luxuriant sound , and eclectic mixture of Anglo-Saxon , Latinate , and Celtic diction have made him for many readers both the greatest of Victorians and the first of the moderns . |
| 8 | In the 1920s , after the British literary establishment had neglected him for forty years , Machen attracted a coterie of admirers in the United States . |