Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] he for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I tried to press him for some specifics , but he was n't saying much . |
| 2 | The popularity of Taylor 's devotional books , his sufferings for the Church , his piety , engaging manner , and contacts in influential Royalist circles might have been expected to qualify him for high preferment in the restored Church in 1660 . |
| 3 | Then slowly her sense of humour began to reassert itself and she was able to laugh , remembering the look of amazement on his handsome , hawklike face when she 'd threatened to report him for sexual harassment . |
| 4 | A normal family life , he repeated to himself , and smiled almost wanly at the thought of something that seemed destined to elude him for several years to come . |
| 5 | So that one day when they are sitting on their fat butts in frankfurt or Langley and some poor guy 's written seven point nine two centimetre automatic rifle instead of seven point nine two millimetre , they wo n't want to fire him for bad writing . |
| 6 | We would also like to thank him for all the hard work he put into Lee Green . |
| 7 | An obstacle to Buchan 's transfer was that he would lose income from his Sunderland shop , and the deal was delayed for two months while ‘ under-the-counter ’ terms were agreed to compensate him for this loss . |
| 8 | ‘ I have been waiting to pick him for some time but our form was not good and it was not easy on Dion living in hotels . |
| 9 | We begin to ask him for more of his love to love him more . |
| 10 | ‘ He was upset that the boy would try to tap him for that dreadful suit . |
| 11 | I 'm sure we can get an accountant to come and speak to us , but we might have to pay him for two hours work , you see . |
| 12 | Xishe 's wife is allowed to see him for 45 minutes twice a year . |
| 13 | She remembered how she had n't been allowed to hold him for more than a moment before he had to go back behind the bars of his crib . |
| 14 | From the prologues to the Heautontimorumenos and the Adelphoe we know that his competitors had tried to discredit him for this . |
| 15 | Gusev deduced that Volkov was in love with a woman who 'd been sent to entrap him for political purposes , so Gusev deduced . |
| 16 | ‘ We 've been trying to wake him for half an hour , ’ said Fritz . |
| 17 | She had vowed to honour him for better or for worse , just as he must honour her in sickness as he did in health . |
| 18 | I took another deep breath — I only wanted to see him for half an hour — and said what I could . |
| 19 | I have to thank him for that . |