Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] he for the " in BNC.

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1 He might be the key to her freedom , but she still hated him for the confusion he aroused in her .
2 Even Dole , who once challenged him for the Presidency , was on verge of tears .
3 Sanderson was a friend of Skottowe and probably recommended him for the job .
4 Natural aptitude and a career in radio , film and television had helped him become an outstanding communicator — a strength chat not only made him a formidable campaigner , but also equipped him for the business of government in the television age .
5 It was a move that clearly suited him for the following season he was picked for the county squad .
6 As he unhesitatingly obeyed , she watched him , really examined him for the first time in their acquaintance .
7 It was then that she really saw him for the first time and the blood began to sing in her ears .
8 Middlesex , who fined him around £750 for a foul-mouthed outburst earlier in the season , immediately dropped him for the game against Hampshire .
9 The chairman said : ‘ He was a shelf stacker at Tescos and said it fully qualified him for the job ! ’
10 Strong , colourful midfield player or striker , Andy Gray had been with the Palace as a schoolboy during the Terry Venables era at Selhurst Park , but disappeared into non-league soccer so that it was actually from Dulwich Hamlet that Manager Steve Coppell initially signed him for The Eagles in November 1984 .
11 Unexpected , this affected him strongly , indeed left him for the moment in a strange turmoil emotionally .
12 Hoskyns badly wanted him for the post .
13 He pushed his bicycle up the hill from Wheatley station in the company of another new student who had a strangely similar background : of nonconformist origins , with his father an official of a nonconformist Church ; a young man who postponed his own confirmation into the Church of England because his parents might be hurt ; and who swung at the university from his very Protestant background into a sense of the devotional stature in Anglo-Catholicism , and into convictions which never left him for the rest of his life ; a graduate of Balliol College , by name Austin Farrer .
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