Example sentences of "[prep] him for [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I remember at the time Wilko saying how he though Kerslake was an excellent buy , and how he 'd been after him for a long time . |
| 2 | The probation found a little stray dog called Benjy for me and I looked after him for a little while , but my money kept on going down and down and down . |
| 3 | been round there once or twice after him for a different thing . |
| 4 | ‘ WHIT 'S yer name hen ? ’ the drunk and dishevelled man on the train asked the woman opposite him for the fourth time in a very loud voice . |
| 5 | Lacking any financial acumen , he ran into difficulties with the Inland Revenue which filed a bankruptcy petition against him for the unpaid tax on his ring earnings : the order was for over £17 000 . |
| 6 | He had taken the Thompson with him for a practical demonstration and afterwards had not had an opportunity to exchange it for the army 's normal issue Sterling gun . |
| 7 | Obviously unwilling , he asked for an absurd sum for doing so , but eventually Omar settled with him for a reasonable amount . |
| 8 | Claudia felt as if she were drowning in a pool of conflicting emotions ; the last thing she wanted was to go anywhere with Roman and yet the thought of being with him for a little while longer filled her with delight . |
| 9 | Well Chris says he 's got ta keep in with him for a little while , he said he |
| 10 | Many remonstrated with him for a howling storm was raging outside , it was night and the journey was a dangerous one . |
| 11 | And after last night 's performance of Hamlet , some of his friends from the theatre had come back with him for an informal reading of their next play . |
| 12 | ‘ Which must mean that , regardless of the fact that he 's so wound up over you he ca n't think straight , you 're only playing around with him for the pure hell of it . ’ |
| 13 | I KNEW of Doctor Ladislav Mareda through British friends who had worked with him for the English-language section of Prague radio until the crushing of the Prague Spring in 1968 . |
| 14 | The familiar house , the carpeted hall , were before him for the last time . |
| 15 | She could n't face seeing that realisation in his eyes , for the sake of her own sanity had to get away — had to flee from him for a second time . |
| 16 | Then it would be her lunchtime , and probably another feed , and after that they 'd send her for her afternoon rest , and then collect the specimens and the data from him for the next day 's test session . |
| 17 | But er we shall be without him for the next fortnight erm so somebody 'll have to come in and score a few goals for us but often you know , you discover things that erm you never knew were there when you have to fill in gaps that have suddenly arisen . |
| 18 | A couple of years earlier , when I was having a bad patch and went to him for a reassuring chat , he had told me not to worry about it . |
| 19 | The General , perhaps to make his point , informed Aitken of the authoritative report that the government had received and offered to lend it to him for a short while . |
| 20 | He applied for a grant of land and this was sold to him for a nominal sum . |
| 21 | Perhaps , because I had really addressed myself to him for the first time , he thought we were in accord . |
| 22 | It occurred to him for the first time that Celia would be a bad enemy , just as she was a good friend . |
| 23 | It came home to him for the first time that what had seemed to him a trivial event , a stupid joke , was something genuinely much bigger to Andrus . |
| 24 | Oh , poor Travis , Leith thought , her sympathies going out to him for the terrible time he was having . |
| 25 | Had n't he understood that she had given herself to him for the only reason that made any sense to her . |
| 26 | Is my right hon. Friend aware that I am extremely grateful to him for the wise decision to retain the St. |
| 27 | There 's no hurry for that now that the money 's been cut back , Mr Silver can go on economising on space and heat and lighting for his twelve women workers for a good few years yet , and in any case , no-one 's been round to check up on him for a long time now . |
| 28 | She turned to look into Gazzer 's face , concentrating her attention on him for the first time since he had climbed up to sit beside her in the sand dunes . |
| 29 | Becky 's dark eyes fixed on him for the first time . |
| 30 | Father Poole stared at him for a long while . |