Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [prep] him for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For instance , if he has money of the client in his hands not entrusted to him for any specific purpose , there is nothing in the section to prevent his retaining the amount due to him out of that money . |
| 2 | A 19-year-old single girl took an overdose of tablets after claiming to be in love with a priest — despite the fact she had not spoken to him for four years . |
| 3 | Others could not get to him for half an hour . |
| 4 | There is one woman who regularly gazes across to her old home at Wouldham and if her brother is in his garden can see him plainly , but has n't spoken to him for several years . |
| 5 | One of the thousands — Wotai 's is part of T'zin 's tuman , but they have n't served with him for several years , and they were always a bit leery of him . |
| 6 | Robbie nodded , mentally apologising to him for all the scathing epithets that had so nearly tumbled from her lips . |