Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] he for " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'd heard him for a bit by then . |
| 2 | He was buoyant today , but also edgy and more authoritative than I 'd seen him for ages , when mostly he 'd been gloomy and sulky . |
| 3 | Imagine , she 'd thanked him for telling her Rob was missing ! |
| 4 | Perhaps if I 'd entered him for the Champion Hurdle , he might have sold . |
| 5 | They 'd followed him for years when he was politically active . |
| 6 | It was about a wife who 'd cheated on her husband , she 'd left him for his best friend , and now the man was on the road trying to mend his broken heart . |
| 7 | She 'd spotted him for the first time three weekends ago when she 'd walked out on to the nightclub stage to perform her warm-up spot for the star turn of the evening . |
| 8 | She 'd fancied him for ages and when he asked her out she managed to keep her cool even though she felt faint . |
| 9 | I 'd loved him for as long as I could remember . |
| 10 | Nature , he thought , had intended him for scholarship yet here he was at forty-six , still a small-town tradesman . |
| 11 | He filled the kettle and set it on the hob , then went through to the front room , closed the shutters , and tried radioing on the frequency Caspar had given him for the US Embassy in Belpan City . |
| 12 | At the slow , jerking speed of city traffic at night , he drove toward the address that Ashdown had given him for the rendezvous . |
| 13 | It was also believed that Menelik visited his father Solomon , and on his departure contrived to substitute a copy of the Ark of the Covenant that his father had given him for the original , which he then carried off to Aksum . |
| 14 | He fixed his mind on a rule his father had given him for public speaking : Get a vague plan and then say anything that comes into your head . |
| 15 | She had rebuked him for drinking a bit too much beforehand . |
| 16 | He was reminded of the statements of the stableman who had joined him for a drink at the Bull , situated at the end of Cross Street , and of the café owner where he had stopped for a fried breakfast . |
| 17 | He cited a Daily Mail article , rather curiously signed Editor , which had attacked him for presiding over the disappearance of ‘ an immense fortune ’ left hint by his father , and had concluded : ‘ It is difficult to see how the leader of a party who has lost his own fortune can hope to restore those of anyone else , or his country . |
| 18 | Joshua Morris had not invited him to break bread in Clungunford , Clunbury , Clunton or Clun , but Ralph Grunte had booked him for his Warwickshire Tories ' annual dinner and dance . |
| 19 | The girl who had interviewed him for Leaders of Mankind . |
| 20 | This predicament forced him to examine his goals and to make one last push for the success which had eluded him for so long . |
| 21 | That weeping was his weeping ; the grief that had overwhelmed him for so long . |
| 22 | After it had trapped him for the third time , he ordered all the cages to be thrown into the sea . |
| 23 | No sooner was Lydia 's wedding to Tobias over , than Bob Lamb had approached him for his permission to pay court to Martha , with a view to eventual marriage . |
| 24 | The Guardian of Jan. 9 , for example , reported that Chinese Communist Party ( CCP ) documents circulated internally in late December had been critical of Gorbachev and had blamed him for the " subversion " of socialism in Eastern Europe . |
| 25 | His father had named him for the Mughal Babur , a conqueror , a hard drinking , hard riding Turk who loved poetry , laughter and gardens . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | ‘ I have a proposition for you , ’ he said to Burkett and as he said it he weighed up his man as if he had met him for the first time . |
| 28 | After the matinée , she had met him for tea , and he had held her hand , and looked soulful , and told her how innocent she was and how easy it would be to fall in love with her , but how he must n't , he could n't , because he would be leaving and it would n't be fair to her , and anyway , he had his career to think of , etc . |
| 29 | Shannon had met him for the first time when he 'd arrived to film the pilot episode , and her dislike for the golden Adonis had been instant . |
| 30 | Nothing in his many years ' service had prepared him for this sort of situation . |