Example sentences of "[prep] he for the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ WHIT 'S yer name hen ? ’ the drunk and dishevelled man on the train asked the woman opposite him for the fourth time in a very loud voice . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | It was full of pieces of paper , which he dropped behind him for the other boys to follow . |
| 5 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The familiar house , the carpeted hall , were before him for the last time . |
| 8 | Then it would be her lunchtime , and probably another feed , and after that they 'd send her for her afternoon rest , and then collect the specimens and the data from him for the next day 's test session . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | But er we shall be without him for the next fortnight erm so somebody 'll have to come in and score a few goals for us but often you know , you discover things that erm you never knew were there when you have to fill in gaps that have suddenly arisen . |
| 11 | Perhaps , because I had really addressed myself to him for the first time , he thought we were in accord . |
| 12 | It occurred to him for the first time that Celia would be a bad enemy , just as she was a good friend . |
| 13 | It came home to him for the first time that what had seemed to him a trivial event , a stupid joke , was something genuinely much bigger to Andrus . |
| 14 | Oh , poor Travis , Leith thought , her sympathies going out to him for the terrible time he was having . |
| 15 | Had n't he understood that she had given herself to him for the only reason that made any sense to her . |
| 16 | Is my right hon. Friend aware that I am extremely grateful to him for the wise decision to retain the St. |
| 17 | She turned to look into Gazzer 's face , concentrating her attention on him for the first time since he had climbed up to sit beside her in the sand dunes . |
| 18 | Becky 's dark eyes fixed on him for the first time . |
| 19 | ‘ Please , ’ she replied softly then looked at him for the first time since he had sat down . |
| 20 | When she said this she looked full at him for the first time and ill though she seemed he saw in her eyes the full pride and command of an eagle . |
| 21 | ‘ Perhaps , ’ she answered , smiling freely at him for the first time that evening . |
| 22 | She looked at him for the first time , then lowered her eyes again . |
| 23 | Her eyes flew upward , looking at him for the first time . |
| 24 | The boy was standing there , smiling at him for the second time that day . |
| 25 | Then Riven asked the question that had been gnawing at him for the last day : ‘ What about Murtach ? ’ |
| 26 | At 0810 he gathered his staff around him for the daily conference to discuss the day ahead , before taking the morning parade of those attending various courses at the school , to ensure that everyone had turned up for work . |