Example sentences of "he [adj] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | His quality of ruthless innocence rendered him unsuitable for most human intercourse . |
| 2 | Well it made him drowsy for one thing , it kept knocking him out . |
| 3 | Walter Geikie was born on 9th November 1795 in Edinburgh , the eldest son of Archibald Geikie , a pharmacist by occupation but a philosopher by inclination , and when still only two years old , contracted a ‘ brain fever ’ ( probably meningitis ) which left him deaf for life . |
| 4 | Then , on the eve of the second Test in Madras , Gooch had his infamous encounter with a poisonous prawn that laid him low for several days and was out of the match with diarrhoea and sickness that laid him low for several days . |
| 5 | Then , on the eve of the second Test in Madras , Gooch had his infamous encounter with a poisonous prawn that laid him low for several days and was out of the match with diarrhoea and sickness that laid him low for several days . |
| 6 | Keep him alive for fifty seconds . |
| 7 | If we could have got him to a warm climate we might have kept him alive for a year or two more than we did . |
| 8 | It'd 've served him right for being such a spaced-out hippy . |
| 9 | She shot him a glance which made him sorry for asking . |
| 10 | I had never imagined the usefulness of teaching him English for this particular trade . |
| 11 | Schlesinger first thought him wrong for Ratso , but changed his mind when they met in New York . |
| 12 | In 1922 he left his Worcester parish to run the church of St Edmund King and Martyr in Lombard Street in the City of London , a non-parochial cure , which left him free for his major postwar work as ‘ messenger ’ of the Industrial Christian Fellowship , which had come into being in 1920 as a result of the amalgamation of the Christian Social Union and the Navvy Mission Society . |
| 13 | Hopkins took charge of production — it was seen as a part-time post , leaving him free for other work — but where was the cash to come from' ? |
| 14 | He was standing in the far corner , talking to some men , and she was able to view him unobserved for a few moments . |
| 15 | Interestingly Tom Jones told me , ‘ Even if he runs well I might miss Cheltenham with him and keep him fresh for another good race at the Grand National meeting at Aintree . ’ |
| 16 | Just in case Lord Milton failed to appreciate his value , MacLachlan stressed that he had been approached by the rival interest in the county and had been offered sufficient to make him easy for life , and accordingly implied that Milton had an obligation to aid him with his creditors and enable him to arrange further loans . |
| 17 | In fact , his phenomenal memory for facts and figures ( he has been known to correct Scottish former international rugby players on the score at half time of matches they had played in ) , combined with a genuine interest in people , made him ideal for the part and , from the day he joined TMcL a year before qualifying , his career took off . |
| 18 | She looked at him wide-eyed for a second , then ran off in the same direction as Isay . |
| 19 | In 1895 he was promoted back to the second class , but two years later , at the age of forty-five , a medical board found him unfit for duty ‘ due to chronic rheumatism and cracked feet ’ . |
| 20 | His chronic bronchitis was also noted as this might make him unfit for anaesthetic or at risk of a post-operative chest infection as well as exacerbating his present problems . |
| 21 | Surprisingly , it passed him fit for operations . |
| 22 | They 'd kept him awake for many an hour prior to an op . |
| 23 | He is Dieter Schmidt and his secret recipe keeps him awake for the 20-hour flights . |
| 24 | She crashed the engine into reverse gear and felt a wave of relief because the shock of her revelation had kept him inert for too long — he would n't catch her . |
| 25 | Many persons will have their own particular reasons for gratitude to him , and everyone will so warmly want to wish him well for the new place in life which awaits him back in his own native diocese of Liverpool . |
| 26 | We all wish him well for the future . |
| 27 | The judge left the bench and stepped down to the floor of the court to congratulate Mr Robinson and wish him well for the future . |
| 28 | Oh , he was handsome all right , she 'd even grant him sexy for those who liked their men tall , solid and apparently carved from granite . |
| 29 | She found him alone for a moment . |
| 30 | Scott gave Ruskin little praise in his later writings and held him responsible for the introduction of the ‘ Italian mania ’ into the Gothic Revival . |