Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [verb] he for [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | I tried to press him for some specifics , but he was n't saying much . |
2 | ‘ What have I done ? ’ she said , her voice trembling , ‘ my baby , I 've lost him for good and it 's all your fault , Craig . ’ |
3 | I 've known him for thirty years , nothing surprises me with him . |
4 | I 've known him for seven years . |
5 | I have to thank him for that . |
6 | Jon is a ‘ New Age Traveller ’ and I have known him for two years . |
7 | It was one of the joys of life , and particularly she loved dancing tonight with Tony Radcliffe , because he was her oldest friend in the world and this was the first time she had seen him for eighteen months . |
8 | She had shot him for all the things he had done to her and her husband , shot him because , in the end , she still loved him , and it made his ultimate betrayal all the harder to bear . |
9 | But she knew in her heart that , if she had ever had Jonathon , she had lost him for good . |
10 | She had known him for many years . |
11 | We begin to ask him for more of his love to love him more . |
12 | But even if we 've known him for many years , if we 're committed Christians , if we 've been followers of Jesus , there are occasions , there are times in our life when there is turmoil and there is unrest and if we allow him to se , to take control he is able to bring peace . |
13 | ‘ We have watched him for three and a half years and see nothing . |
14 | Does the Minister accept that although some of us may have a disagreement with Bruce Millan , we have known him for many years and we know that he has always been , and is , punctilious in the exercise of his duties ? |
15 | Whatever mysterious spirit had unlocked the verse , it had freed him for other human satisfactions , for love ; or was it the other way around ? |
16 | He was devoted to the Prince , but he had served him for ten years and his wife had scarcely seen him . |