Example sentences of "[pron] had [verb] him for the " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 She allowed her fingers to roam , her eyes tightly shut , her mind vividly picturing him as she had seen him for the very first time .
3 With surprise , Juliet realised he was referring to his hospital episode , when she had nursed him for the last two weeks of his stay .
4 After it had trapped him for the third time , he ordered all the cages to be thrown into the sea .
5 ‘ I have a proposition for you , ’ he said to Burkett and as he said it he weighed up his man as if he had met him for the first time .
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