Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] he for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Smith 's wife died in 1825 ; this loss made him for some time anxious to resign , and may help to account for the relative lack of distinction of his period of office . |
| 2 | It has now been decided to write to Rangers asking for their views on statements attributed to the three men since Ferguson 's club dropped him for disciplinary reasons , after which it came to light that Murray had spoken to United 's manager/chairman , Jim Mclean , about buying the Scotland internationalist . |
| 3 | Northamptonshire signed him for four years he shared digs with Colin Milburn and though he progressed less spectacularly than his former Durham colleague , Scott proved an able bowler . |
| 4 | Bob Willis 's Test career came to a sad end at Headingley in 1984 , as Michael Holding hit him for five sixes . |
| 5 | A week later , poor Walsh was involved in another traumatic final over as Pakistan despatched him for 14 to win off the final ball . |
| 6 | I remember , one bloke , mind-reader he was — Steenie booked him for some Variety bill , forget where it was now . |
| 7 | Luton 's Philip Gray replaces him for next Wednesday 's qualifier against Denmark . |
| 8 | His lips twisted in scorn , and Lissa hated him for that look . |
| 9 | ‘ Oh , dear , you do n't want to hear my stories , ’ he would say when Benny and Eve plagued him for some information . |
| 10 | Doubts about the genuineness of his own faith troubled him for many years . |
| 11 | This brief experience as a merchant seaman qualified him for another voyage , this time on an American cargo vessel bound for London . |
| 12 | When Jamie came in with the food at gloaming , Cameron asked him for another blanket . |
| 13 | From 1899 to 1902 he encouraged young Labour church workers to visit him for informal religious training . |
| 14 | Julia loved him for that protectiveness , too , and pulled her hand out of his to let him go . |
| 15 | Judge Lawrence Verney jailed him for seven years foreach of the rapes and four years for each of the indecent assaults , all to run concurrently . |
| 16 | They manhandled Mr Reagan to the side of the stage and pounced on his attacker , forcing him over the podium to check him for any possible weapons before dragging him away . |
| 17 | It was the question she had been screwing up her courage to ask him for some time , but Duro pretended he had n't heard , and turned away to talk to Dom Alfonso . |
| 18 | President Zia picked him for prime minister in March 1985 but he was criticised by the opposition for providing a democratic civilian facade to a military dictatorship . |
| 19 | He began ‘ running down ’ to Suffolk at weekends on his own , and that Christmas he had his wife accompany him for four days , taking all the Christmas food with them . |
| 20 | And then he gave order that all the windows of the towers which looked in upon the town should be closed up , that the Christians might not see what the Moors did in their houses ; and the Moors thanked him for this greatly . |
| 21 | Fukase 's series RAVENS preoccupied him for ten years , beginning with a chance photograph of a flock of crows on his native Hokkaido in 1975 and culminating in the publication of 62 photographs in 1986 . |
| 22 | Selahattin Simsek said that during his interrogation , police officers tortured him for 23 consecutive days , but he confessed to nothing more than ‘ a certain sympathy ’ for the PKK . |
| 23 | Guilt besieged him for many years . |
| 24 | Terry Melchett , the supermarket manager , whose wife left him for another woman , gave me a hard shove in the small of the back . |
| 25 | It will be a sweet moment for Emburey whose tour seemed doomed when he was savaged by various Indian batsmen in the early games , Test opener Navjot Sidhu hitting him for eight sixes in the second three-day warm-up fixture at Lucknow . |
| 26 | Athelstan looked at her and prayed to God to forgive him for all he felt was disgust . |
| 27 | When the Central Authority carpeted him for this , he stated that he had done it both to meet statutory obligations and to make faster progress on rural electrification than agreed . |
| 28 | One of his wins had qualified him for the National so when he came up for sale at Doncaster , Kempton secured him for 2,000 guineas on behalf of two of his owners who were keen to have a runner in the race . |
| 29 | Judge William Hannah jailed him for 12 months and disqualified him from driving for six months . |
| 30 | Livingston , who has vowed to clear his name after British athletics chiefs banned him for four years for drugs cheating , said : ‘ I am being imprisoned for something I have n't done . |