Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] him for an " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was just about to shrug off the question with ‘ I du n no ’ when he noticed that George and the twins were looking at him for an answer . |
| 2 | you , er , it had happened because I had been , I had had a lot of training and a lot of swindles and thing , I was able to talked to him and I talked to him for an hour and a half er , I was curious for one thing to find out why he was , he , he was breaking into people 's houses , so that the fact that he was doing it for , to , to get money for drugs |
| 3 | Her glance rested on him only for a matter of seconds , yet his face could not have registered more in her mind had she been staring at him for an hour . |
| 4 | Frau Nordern gazed at him for an icy moment then stalked into the bedroom . |
| 5 | I waited for him for an hour , outside his half-built apartment building . |
| 6 | Endill did not know what he meant by this and ran after him for an explanation . |