Example sentences of "[vb base] [vb pp] him for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Deputy 's free and I 've booked him for the launch |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | I 've sought him for years . |
| 4 | I 've got him for English . |
| 5 | I 've got him for drama . |
| 6 | I 've told him for years , but I did n't want to hurt him because I loved him . |
| 7 | ‘ Partly because I 've known him for years . |
| 8 | ‘ I 've known him for years . |
| 9 | If he does really well he can hope for a bonus of cross-party votes : never mind Patrick 's party label , we 've known him for a long time , we like him and he 's been very helpful . |
| 10 | I 've known him for seven years . |
| 11 | I 've known him for years . |
| 12 | You 've known him for only a few days , so that 's impossible . |
| 13 | I 've known him for about three years and we get on fine as friends . |
| 14 | I 've known him for years . ’ |
| 15 | I 've known him for years . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ You 've known him for years … we 've even spent Christmas with his family ! ’ |
| 17 | I 've known him for thirty years , nothing surprises me with him . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | I 've wanted him for as long as I can remember . " |
| 20 | ‘ What have I done ? ’ she said , her voice trembling , ‘ my baby , I 've lost him for good and it 's all your fault , Craig . ’ |
| 21 | Now that MPs have committed him for trial for allegedly ordering telephone-tapping and accepting bribes , he describes the three months of coalition government as ‘ a lamentable political parenthesis ’ . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Many footballers have matched him for decadence but few have lived out their decline quite as publicly as Slim Jim . |
| 24 | ‘ We have watched him for three and a half years and see nothing . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Jon is a ‘ New Age Traveller ’ and I have known him for two years . |
| 27 | 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 ? |
| 28 | It was an occasion filled with memories of a life time in the carpet business , highlighted with speeches by Ralph Ellis , Rod Turnbull , Steve Higgins and from customers who have known him for a long time . |
| 29 | I have followed him for a long time and his work just gets better and better . |
| 30 | Some have criticised him for not doing more to help urban California , where 80% of Latinos live . |