Example sentences of "be [verb] he for a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I think they 'd just been hounding him for a while and that was the last straw . |
| 2 | Then he observed in a flat tone , ‘ What a tragedy , in that case , that you wo n't be seeing him for a while . ’ |
| 3 | It was clear that she 'd been taking him for a ride , in that there was no ride in it for him at the end of the process . |
| 4 | He had been pestering him for a while for stories about the grandparents he had never known . |
| 5 | The old man was begging him for a dime to buy a cup of coffee . |
| 6 | The woman was taking him for a ride , working on him to get what she wanted , and that included Lissa 's destruction . |
| 7 | He practically had me signed up for the European Monetary System when all I wanted was to touch him for a gold moidore . |