Example sentences of "[verb] he for [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Russian official recently so upset his domestic association that they suspended him for two months , although UEFA insist : ‘ He 's still one of the best referees in Europe and the right man for the job . ’ |
| 2 | The Russian official recently so upset his domestic association that they suspended him for two months , although UEFA insist : ‘ He 's still one of the best referees in Europe and the right man for the job . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ Players are overpaid , pampered prima donnas , ’ he says , with a bluntness once very familiar to League secretary Alan Hardaker who in 1970 suspended him for ten weeks . |
| 4 | Apparently , the free spending Italian club AC Milan were so taken with him that they offered Celtic a fee of £100,000 for his services , only to recoil in fear when the club 's manager Jock Stein told him they could only rent him for one game for that amount . |
| 5 | The German academics very prudently ignored him for forty years ; but lately , to the disgrace of Germany , he has been discovered by an English critic . |
| 6 | But he will have to wait to get into the action — an ankle injury has sidelined him for two weeks . |
| 7 | Mind you , I have n't seen him for sixteen years . |
| 8 | I 'd not seen him for six months . |
| 9 | ‘ I had n't seen him for six years anyway . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | I had n't seen him for two months , more than two months . |
| 12 | I have n't seen him for two days . |
| 13 | I had n't seen him for seven years , though I 'd heard about him now and then — he had graduated through minor journalism to publishing , and was now ( I learned by well-placed casual questions ) a leading light in a go-ahead new publishing house specializing in novels by Angry Young Men . |
| 14 | I 've not seen him for twenty years . |
| 15 | I have n't seen him for three years or so . |
| 16 | Sarah 's seen Sharon in town she says how 's things and she went and she says where 's Darren , have n't seen him for three days . |
| 17 | She has n't seen him for 20 years and remembers him as a ‘ nice guy ’ . |
| 18 | I knew him , back in student days but I had n't seen him for ten years . ’ |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | And then the next little breath he 's off to America and you do n't see him for four weeks . |
| 22 | After coaxing him for 20 minutes , one officer grabbed the man — only to discover he had been bleeding heavily from deep cuts to his wrist and arms . |
| 23 | I cuddled him for four hours until he died in my hands . |
| 24 | Last year the Home Secretary reappointed him for five years : the first of the BBC 's 17 chairmen since incorporation in 1927 to receive a second full term . |
| 25 | At dawn on Friday , John Major came of age , shaking off the shadow of Mrs Thatcher that had dogged him for 16 months . |
| 26 | Mardon , who began a week 's trial at Anfield on Monday , suffered an ankle ligament injury during training which will sideline him for two weeks . |
| 27 | The decision came after a special tribunal in Peshawar had found Gilani guilty on April 24 of the misappropriation of public funds , and had disqualified him for seven years from a seat in the National Assembly . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Police followed him for six miles on the A1 near Dishforth at speeds of up to 96mph through heavy rain . |
| 30 | Although technically Yeltsin was still able to nominate Gaidar as Prime Minister , subject to Congress 's approval , and to retain him for three months even without such approval , it appeared that , realising the need for political compromise , he chose Chernomyrdin with Gaidar 's acquiescence . |