Example sentences of "him for [art] [adj] [noun sg] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I killed him for no more reason than I wanted to do it . |
| 2 | He had taken the Thompson with him for a practical demonstration and afterwards had not had an opportunity to exchange it for the army 's normal issue Sterling gun . |
| 3 | She stared at him for a long moment before she took in what he had said . |
| 4 | I have followed him for a long time and his work just gets better and better . |
| 5 | It was when I had n't seen him for a long time and I was all wound up . |
| 6 | The big fella is more keyed up than I 've seen him for a long time and he is channelling all his energies into one final world cup fling . |
| 7 | A 16-YEAR-OLD boy who fired a catapult at a low-flying Sri Lankan air force helicopter yesterday was wounded when the copter 's gunner mistook him for a Tamil terrorist and shot back at him . |
| 8 | Yeah , I said yeah I am , I said I 'm gon na drive up and see , so we got in , went up to Wendy 's , you could n't see through the door Pen , Penny and Kev said well we 'll drive round as well , I said well she 's had us up and down , cos one minute she was quite strong then the next she could n't cope , I said Wendy all I want you to ever know is that I 'm there , if ever you want me phone me , I do n't care whether it 's middle of the night , middle of the morning or whatever , so she says alright , anyway Penny went up , she said she could n't see anything she thinks she 's gone a bed and then me and Rudy went up , it must have been quarter to one cos I took him for a little walk and I got out the car and walked round the back and then , I could see her curtains were open and I could see a light on , so I went round the front and I shouted through the letter box , Wen it 's only me I 've come to wish you a happy new year , let's hope next year will be better than this one and she come to the door and she was broken hearted |
| 9 | Had n't he understood that she had given herself to him for the only reason that made any sense to her . |
| 10 | She turned to look into Gazzer 's face , concentrating her attention on him for the first time since he had climbed up to sit beside her in the sand dunes . |
| 11 | Val left him for the first time since they had set up house , and went briefly ‘ home ’ . |
| 12 | ‘ Please , ’ she replied softly then looked at him for the first time since he had sat down . |
| 13 | It occurred to him for the first time that Celia would be a bad enemy , just as she was a good friend . |
| 14 | It came home to him for the first time that what had seemed to him a trivial event , a stupid joke , was something genuinely much bigger to Andrus . |
| 15 | The quarrel between faith and unbelief touched him for the first time and unsettled his mind . |
| 16 | I could then have pretended to notice him for the first time and have engaged him in conversation in an impromptu manner . |
| 17 | It was then that she really saw him for the first time and the blood began to sing in her ears . |
| 18 | When she said this she looked full at him for the first time and ill though she seemed he saw in her eyes the full pride and command of an eagle . |
| 19 | In 1984 " Union Jack " Hayward received £50,000 to console him for the untrue allegation that he was involved in a murder plot . |
| 20 | The process did n't perturb him for the simple reason that it did n't repel Willie . |
| 21 | The other gentleman to whom I referred , Mr. Williams , was deported some little while ago , it being cheaper to deport him than prosecute him for the gross fraud that he has perpetrated against the United Kingdom . |