Example sentences of "have [verb] him for [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She said that she had got ‘ quite dependent ’ on Roger — I suppose she may have known him for about thirty-five years . |
| 2 | Quite plainly , having so recently finished the work that had absorbed him for almost two years , he was not yet back in the habit of eating lunch at a regular hour . |
| 3 | I 've known him for about three years and we get on fine as friends . |
| 4 | And because he thought she had followed him for just that purpose ? |
| 5 | He was condemned by an image which had haunted him for over thirty years : a poor defenceless body Iying curled up in a vast flat dismal landscape , a father abandoned to his lonely fate . |