Example sentences of "[vb base] [vb pp] him for [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 I 've known him for thirty years , nothing surprises me with him .
2 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 .
3 I 've known him for seven years .
4 His passionate compression , luxuriant sound , and eclectic mixture of Anglo-Saxon , Latinate , and Celtic diction have made him for many readers both the greatest of Victorians and the first of the moderns .
5 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 ?
6 Jon is a ‘ New Age Traveller ’ and I have known him for two years .
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