Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] he for the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He might be the key to her freedom , but she still hated him for the confusion he aroused in her . |
| 2 | Even Dole , who once challenged him for the Presidency , was on verge of tears . |
| 3 | Sanderson was a friend of Skottowe and probably recommended him for the job . |
| 4 | Natural aptitude and a career in radio , film and television had helped him become an outstanding communicator — a strength chat not only made him a formidable campaigner , but also equipped him for the business of government in the television age . |
| 5 | Middlesex , who fined him around £750 for a foul-mouthed outburst earlier in the season , immediately dropped him for the game against Hampshire . |
| 6 | The chairman said : ‘ He was a shelf stacker at Tescos and said it fully qualified him for the job ! ’ |
| 7 | Unexpected , this affected him strongly , indeed left him for the moment in a strange turmoil emotionally . |
| 8 | Hoskyns badly wanted him for the post . |
| 9 | He pushed his bicycle up the hill from Wheatley station in the company of another new student who had a strangely similar background : of nonconformist origins , with his father an official of a nonconformist Church ; a young man who postponed his own confirmation into the Church of England because his parents might be hurt ; and who swung at the university from his very Protestant background into a sense of the devotional stature in Anglo-Catholicism , and into convictions which never left him for the rest of his life ; a graduate of Balliol College , by name Austin Farrer . |