Example sentences of "[prep] he for [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | I remember at the time Wilko saying how he though Kerslake was an excellent buy , and how he 'd been after him for a long time . |
2 | The probation found a little stray dog called Benjy for me and I looked after him for a little while , but my money kept on going down and down and down . |
3 | been round there once or twice after him for a different thing . |
4 | Though he knew the press would be sending a photographer to take a picture of him for the financial pages of the newspaper , he suspected that their main interest was in Hank . |
5 | Lacking any financial acumen , he ran into difficulties with the Inland Revenue which filed a bankruptcy petition against him for the unpaid tax on his ring earnings : the order was for over £17 000 . |
6 | It was full of pieces of paper , which he dropped behind him for the other boys to follow . |
7 | He had taken the Thompson with him for a practical demonstration and afterwards had not had an opportunity to exchange it for the army 's normal issue Sterling gun . |
8 | Obviously unwilling , he asked for an absurd sum for doing so , but eventually Omar settled with him for a reasonable amount . |
9 | Claudia felt as if she were drowning in a pool of conflicting emotions ; the last thing she wanted was to go anywhere with Roman and yet the thought of being with him for a little while longer filled her with delight . |
10 | Well Chris says he 's got ta keep in with him for a little while , he said he |
11 | Many remonstrated with him for a howling storm was raging outside , it was night and the journey was a dangerous one . |
12 | And after last night 's performance of Hamlet , some of his friends from the theatre had come back with him for an informal reading of their next play . |
13 | ‘ Which must mean that , regardless of the fact that he 's so wound up over you he ca n't think straight , you 're only playing around with him for the pure hell of it . ’ |
14 | I KNEW of Doctor Ladislav Mareda through British friends who had worked with him for the English-language section of Prague radio until the crushing of the Prague Spring in 1968 . |
15 | Yet , I am not writing about him for the above reasons , it 's rather on account of an unlikely weakness of his than for one of his many strengths . |
16 | A couple of years earlier , when I was having a bad patch and went to him for a reassuring chat , he had told me not to worry about it . |
17 | The General , perhaps to make his point , informed Aitken of the authoritative report that the government had received and offered to lend it to him for a short while . |
18 | He applied for a grant of land and this was sold to him for a nominal sum . |
19 | Oh , poor Travis , Leith thought , her sympathies going out to him for the terrible time he was having . |
20 | Had n't he understood that she had given herself to him for the only reason that made any sense to her . |
21 | Is my right hon. Friend aware that I am extremely grateful to him for the wise decision to retain the St. |
22 | There 's no hurry for that now that the money 's been cut back , Mr Silver can go on economising on space and heat and lighting for his twelve women workers for a good few years yet , and in any case , no-one 's been round to check up on him for a long time now . |
23 | Father Poole stared at him for a long while . |
24 | She stared at him for a long time . |
25 | Charsky gazes at him for a long time , sadly . |
26 | She had looked at him for a long time , at first solemnly and then with mounting anger . |
27 | Surere looked at him for a long time . |
28 | She gazed at him for a long time without being able to bring the appropriate words to her lips . |
29 | She stared at him for a long moment wondering if in her indignation she had hurt his feelings , but his eyes were narrowed and she could not read his expression . |
30 | She stared at him for a long moment before she took in what he had said . |