Example sentences of "[vb pp] him for [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The girl who had interviewed him for Leaders of Mankind . |
| 2 | I 've sought him for years . |
| 3 | He labours scornfully for this Simon Giles , faintly comforted by a corner in Classical studies which has been granted him for reasons to do with the firm 's image . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ I have n't seen him for ages . |
| 6 | I have n't seen him for ages . |
| 7 | I have n't seen him for months . ’ |
| 8 | I had not been thinking about him , I had not even seen him for months . |
| 9 | Not seen him for months . |
| 10 | Instead of having Matt to myself , when I have n't seen him for months and months , I have to share him with this wretched woman who ca n't get her act together ! |
| 11 | Have n't seen him for months . ’ |
| 12 | He had n't seen him for years but knew of his bass playing . |
| 13 | ‘ Have n't seen him for years . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ Have n't seen him for years , ’ said Coffin regretfully . |
| 15 | We have n't seen him for years the bloody queer . |
| 16 | He looked happier than I had seen him for weeks and there was colour in his cheeks . |
| 17 | I 've told him for years , but I did n't want to hurt him because I loved him . |
| 18 | Once she had seemed to know a good deal about him , but in her idle rancour of the last few weeks she had abused him for faults that seemed nothing to do with the truth of him . |
| 19 | ‘ Partly because I 've known him for years . |
| 20 | ‘ I 've known him for years . |
| 21 | He was a very easy person to talk to , and long before they reached home she felt as if she had known him for years . |
| 22 | Ask many who have known him for years , and they will say that he looks most comfortable at his annual visit to the Renaissance Weekend at Hilton Head Island over the New Year holiday . |
| 23 | I 've known him for years . |
| 24 | Known him for years , worked with him for years . |
| 25 | K has literally just rung over the moon that I had fixed this as her mother is very fond of David and has known him for years — and it is fitting that widow of first Prof of CEGS ( as above ) be included — her dad built up the department enormously and I knew him through European seminars etc via Law Society with and others including who is a Heriot Row neighbour . |
| 26 | I 've known him for years . ’ |
| 27 | I 've known him for years . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ You 've known him for years … we 've even spent Christmas with his family ! ’ |
| 29 | Hobnobbing in TV circles he may even get to meet Richard Briars and solve a mystery that 's plagued him for years : Those voice-overs he does for ads on the telly , he always sounds so out of breath . |
| 30 | They 'd followed him for years when he was politically active . |