Example sentences of "[pers pn] have [vb pp] him for " in BNC.
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| 31 | Imagine , she 'd thanked him for telling her Rob was missing ! |
| 32 | It was about a wife who 'd cheated on her husband , she 'd left him for his best friend , and now the man was on the road trying to mend his broken heart . |
| 33 | You 've known him for only a few days , so that 's impossible . |
| 34 | ‘ You 've known him for years … we 've even spent Christmas with his family ! ’ |
| 35 | She allowed her fingers to roam , her eyes tightly shut , her mind vividly picturing him as she had seen him for the very first time . |
| 36 | His crooked smile was very much in evidence and Matey could have told her that since her arrival Dr Neil had been happier than she had seen him for a long time — there had been fewer backslidings towards the ‘ nasty whisky ’ since McAllister had appeared in his life to provide him with such rich amusement . |
| 37 | 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 . |
| 38 | She had shot him for all the things he had done to her and her husband , shot him because , in the end , she still loved him , and it made his ultimate betrayal all the harder to bear . |
| 39 | And because he thought she had followed him for just that purpose ? |
| 40 | After the matinée , she had met him for tea , and he had held her hand , and looked soulful , and told her how innocent she was and how easy it would be to fall in love with her , but how he must n't , he could n't , because he would be leaving and it would n't be fair to her , and anyway , he had his career to think of , etc . |
| 41 | Once she had seemed to know a good deal about him , but in her idle rancour of the last few weeks she had abused him for faults that seemed nothing to do with the truth of him . |
| 42 | His cool irony brought swift colour to her cheeks as she recalled how furiously she had condemned him for doing just that . |
| 43 | She had rebuked him for drinking a bit too much beforehand . |
| 44 | She had lost him for a while , at the party , but she 'd already been too drunk to worry . |
| 45 | But she knew in her heart that , if she had ever had Jonathon , she had lost him for good . |
| 46 | He pushed through the swing doors and was gone , leaving her close to tears and frantically worried that she had upset him for ever . |
| 47 | He wondered if she had abandoned him for ever . |
| 48 | He was a very easy person to talk to , and long before they reached home she felt as if she had known him for years . |
| 49 | She had known him for many years . |
| 50 | With surprise , Juliet realised he was referring to his hospital episode , when she had nursed him for the last two weeks of his stay . |
| 51 | She had sued him for libel . |
| 52 | If he does really well he can hope for a bonus of cross-party votes : never mind Patrick 's party label , we 've known him for a long time , we like him and he 's been very helpful . |
| 53 | But even if we 've known him for many years , if we 're committed Christians , if we 've been followers of Jesus , there are occasions , there are times in our life when there is turmoil and there is unrest and if we allow him to se , to take control he is able to bring peace . |
| 54 | We have liked him for being into free speech and free love , and for what he has to say about convergences of the two , and about the curbs which revolution and its regimes has placed on them . |
| 55 | ‘ We have watched him for three and a half years and see nothing . |
| 56 | Does the Minister accept that although some of us may have a disagreement with Bruce Millan , we have known him for many years and we know that he has always been , and is , punctilious in the exercise of his duties ? |
| 57 | They 'd followed him for years when he was politically active . |
| 58 | They had stalled him for long enough , but with a baby coming , he could n't wait any longer and then when Rachel told them she had to get married , she was thrown out of the house . |
| 59 | They had fetched him for Christmas and he was staying on for the New Year . |
| 60 | Whatever mysterious spirit had unlocked the verse , it had freed him for other human satisfactions , for love ; or was it the other way around ? |