Example sentences of "[prep] he for [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So he placed an order with him for all these , and he had to come back to the factory , reorganize the factory , to meet this terrific order he 'd got for pencils , you see . |
| 2 | I arranged with Dick that w Bill would be with him for two two and a half hours . |
| 3 | Our best wishes go to John and his family and we look forward to working with him for another 15 year . |
| 4 | And as Jake nodded , Shiona reluctantly resigned herself to being trapped at the table with him for another little while . |
| 5 | ‘ How can you tell what 's been eating into him for all that time ? ’ |
| 6 | It was his grandmother he spent his fifth birthday with and that same year his parents went off on a tour of the Commonwealth , which took them away from him for six long months . |
| 7 | It was as if she had been waiting for him for all these years . |
| 8 | ‘ I have a Matchbox racing set I had bought and put away for him for that coming Christmas , but he never got to see it . |
| 9 | A machine may well perform these tasks for him for some considerable period of time , but it has come to be accepted that once the brain can be shown to be dead , the machine is not keeping the patient ‘ alive ’ in any accepted sense of the word ; it is merely ventilating a corpse . |
| 10 | For instance , if he has money of the client in his hands not entrusted to him for any specific purpose , there is nothing in the section to prevent his retaining the amount due to him out of that money . |
| 11 | Michael is a man who knows his own mind and I was relying on him for some controversial quotes , but he surprised me by agreeing on the whole with Mr Isherwood 's choices . |
| 12 | It is quite reasonable for a purchaser to assume that a vendor who sells land for a particular purpose will not do anything to prevent its being used for that purpose , but it would be utterly unreasonable to assume that the vendor was undertaking restrictive obligations which would prevent his using land retained by him for any lawful purpose whatsoever … |