Example sentences of "[vb pp] him for many " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 " He is , but we have n't seen him for many , many years , for more than we can remember . "
3 I have n't seen him for many years . ’
4 Having known him for many months in Vancouver , and relishing his word-pictures of Yukon characters like ‘ dangerous Dan McGrew ’ and ‘ the lady known as Lou ’ , I tried to see in Service 's eyes the modern Yukon nearly half a century after the gold rush .
5 She had known him for many years .
6 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 ?
7 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 .
8 He took over his own printing company called E L Hildreth in the forties and in the fifties sometime sold that out and set up a design shop to produce books and magazines , near Brattleboro , Vermont , and the prep school that I went to had retained him for many years as their printing adviser and , you know , he did the catalogues .
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