Example sentences of "[be] [verb] him for the " in BNC.

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1 Let me now assume that you are being considered by a prospective principal and are seeing him for the first time .
2 Short had been saving him for the Ascot race .
3 It er we are expecting him for the course on that date .
4 Though he was more like his old self , many suspected they were seeing him for the last time .
5 She glanced up at him , feeling oddly shy , almost as though she were meeting him for the first time with no doubts , no mistrust , between them .
6 The repeated attacks of this last disease were to trouble him for the rest of his life .
7 In doing so , he had to jettison most of what those close to him had been telling him for the past 16 months .
8 The boyish expression transformed the hard planes of his face and she stared at him as if she was seeing him for the first time .
9 Owen knew from the title that this was a member of the Egyptian Royal Family but which of the Khedive 's numerous progeny it was escaped him for the moment .
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