Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [vb pp] he for " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd loved him for as long as I could remember . |
| 2 | ‘ I 'd heard him for a bit by then . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Perhaps if I 'd entered him for the Champion Hurdle , he might have sold . |
| 5 | He looked happier than I had seen him for weeks and there was colour in his cheeks . |
| 6 | I had invited him for a meal , and he left around midnight . ’ |
| 7 | And he looks a lot better for the change , although I have to tell you that by the time I had grilled him for an hour and tested him out on the snooker table I did notice that he reached for a cigarette . |
| 8 | When I had left him for Bath , he had said , sadly , seeing me off at Salamanca station : ‘ I should have come with you when your father died . |
| 9 | I had known him for a number of years . |
| 10 | This predicament forced him to examine his goals and to make one last push for the success which had eluded him for so long . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | He was condemned by an image which had haunted him for over thirty years : a poor defenceless body Iying curled up in a vast flat dismal landscape , a father abandoned to his lonely fate . |
| 13 | Subconsciously he must have been expecting something like this : his first reaction was not surprise but an intensification of the dull misery which had enveloped him for the last 24 hours . |
| 14 | She 'd fancied him for ages and when he asked her out she managed to keep her cool even though she felt faint . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Imagine , she 'd thanked him for telling her Rob was missing ! |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | She allowed her fingers to roam , her eyes tightly shut , her mind vividly picturing him as she had seen him for the very first time . |
| 19 | His crooked smile was very much in evidence and Matey could have told her that since her arrival Dr Neil had been happier than she had seen him for a long time — there had been fewer backslidings towards the ‘ nasty whisky ’ since McAllister had appeared in his life to provide him with such rich amusement . |
| 20 | It was one of the joys of life , and particularly she loved dancing tonight with Tony Radcliffe , because he was her oldest friend in the world and this was the first time she had seen him for eighteen months . |
| 21 | She had shot him for all the things he had done to her and her husband , shot him because , in the end , she still loved him , and it made his ultimate betrayal all the harder to bear . |
| 22 | And because he thought she had followed him for just that purpose ? |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | His cool irony brought swift colour to her cheeks as she recalled how furiously she had condemned him for doing just that . |
| 26 | She had rebuked him for drinking a bit too much beforehand . |
| 27 | She had lost him for a while , at the party , but she 'd already been too drunk to worry . |
| 28 | But she knew in her heart that , if she had ever had Jonathon , she had lost him for good . |
| 29 | He pushed through the swing doors and was gone , leaving her close to tears and frantically worried that she had upset him for ever . |
| 30 | He wondered if she had abandoned him for ever . |