Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] he for [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Smith 's wife died in 1825 ; this loss made him for some time anxious to resign , and may help to account for the relative lack of distinction of his period of office .
2 This brief experience as a merchant seaman qualified him for another voyage , this time on an American cargo vessel bound for London .
3 It was the question she had been screwing up her courage to ask him for some time , but Duro pretended he had n't heard , and turned away to talk to Dom Alfonso .
4 Terry Melchett , the supermarket manager , whose wife left him for another woman , gave me a hard shove in the small of the back .
5 The inclusion of this clause enables him to recover all loss , however remote , ( provided he can prove causation ) suffered as a result of the sellers 's wrongful acts , since the seller has , by the clause , undertaken an express obligation to compensate him for such loss .
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