Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] he for [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I tried to press him for some specifics , but he was n't saying much . |
| 2 | Nothing in his many years ' service had prepared him for this sort of situation . |
| 3 | Again , Karr had prepared him for this . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Delaunay felt that the basis of his art was ‘ simultaneous ’ contrasts of colour , a concept which he adopted from Chevreul , whose colour theory had interested him for some time . |
| 6 | The present halberdier , Alf Jackson , had accompanied him for those thirty years . |
| 7 | She had known him for many years . |
| 8 | GULF War hero Paul Butler , who saw two pals killed in the American ‘ friendly fire ’ attack , went berserk when he heard his wife had left him for another man . |
| 9 | He took over his own printing company called E L Hildreth in the forties and in the fifties sometime sold that out and set up a design shop to produce books and magazines , near Brattleboro , Vermont , and the prep school that I went to had retained him for many years as their printing adviser and , you know , he did the catalogues . |
| 10 | His mother had nagged him for some time about entering his lodger 's room . |
| 11 | I took another deep breath — I only wanted to see him for half an hour — and said what I could . |