Example sentences of "[to-vb] he for [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Like if I interviewed Johnny Thunders , it was n't to meet him for the first time , it was to try to save his career . ’ |
| 2 | But he says the payout ca n't begin to compensate him for the devastating effect the accident has had on his life . |
| 3 | But in the former case the plaintiff will have a capital asset in his hands , and he is only entitled to recover damages to compensate him for the additional expenditure involved . |
| 4 | In all such cases the plaintiff is entitled to damages to compensate him for the lost benefit . |
| 5 | He told the rector at Boston that this was a person of unusual spiritual powers ; that how to train him for the whole Church was a responsibility ; that he was anxious that these abilities should not be confined to academic spheres . |
| 6 | It was a nice face and , other things being equal , she would have responded to that first , she had been wanting to get to know him for a long time . |
| 7 | The German and American had crossed swords on and off the track throughout 1990 and it seemed as if Bradl needed Kocinski 's ‘ presence ’ to inspire him for the final showdown . |
| 8 | In 1984 " Union Jack " Hayward received £50,000 to console him for the untrue allegation that he was involved in a murder plot . |
| 9 | When he and Johnson got back to their inn , Boswell ‘ begged permission to leave him for a little while , that I might run about and pay some short visits to several good people of Inverness ’ . |
| 10 | Unwelcome tears threatened again to expose him for a big softie . |
| 11 | Would some lingering affection for the man she had once married have driven her to France to see him for the last time ? |
| 12 | Once again he has to thank him for a new book , this time Nineteen Eighty-Four ( 1949 ) ; but now he sounds cool . |
| 13 | I could then have pretended to notice him for the first time and have engaged him in conversation in an impromptu manner . |
| 14 | Liessa spared him a brief glance , and appeared actually to notice him for the first time . |