Example sentences of "[vb pp] he for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | More than a hundred victims have now approached him for legal advice and doctors are still seeing new cases six weeks after chryptosporidium was first identified in the Farmoor reservoir . |
| 2 | But he will have to wait to get into the action — an ankle injury has sidelined him for two weeks . |
| 3 | Nothing in our four days on the felucca with this sullen boy had prepared us for this , as nothing could have prepared him for that afternoon in Asyut . |
| 4 | Nothing in his many years ' service had prepared him for this sort of situation . |
| 5 | Sir Charles , whose practice as a family solicitor in Hertfordshire had not prepared him for this sort of thing , was losing control . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | His passionate compression , luxuriant sound , and eclectic mixture of Anglo-Saxon , Latinate , and Celtic diction have made him for many readers both the greatest of Victorians and the first of the moderns . |
| 8 | I have n't seen him for many years . ’ |
| 9 | Mind you , I have n't seen him for sixteen years . |
| 10 | I 'd not seen him for six months . |
| 11 | ‘ I had n't seen him for six years anyway . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | I had n't seen him for two months , more than two months . |
| 14 | I have n't seen him for two days . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | He was quite categorical ; Passmore was there on Friday evening from about seven until closing time , but he had n't seen him for several weeks before then and he has n't seen him since . ’ |
| 17 | Police broke in after neighbours had not seen him for several days . |
| 18 | I 've not seen him for twenty years . |
| 19 | I have n't seen him for three years or so . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | She has n't seen him for 20 years and remembers him as a ‘ nice guy ’ . |
| 22 | She always forgot , when she had not seen him for some time , how he affected her . |
| 23 | ‘ I 've not seen him for some time . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ I have n't seen him for some time . ’ |
| 25 | She had n't seen him for some years , of course , but she was sure that it was n't like him to be so edgy … so extraordinarily tense and restless . |
| 26 | I knew him , back in student days but I had n't seen him for ten years . ’ |
| 27 | At dawn on Friday , John Major came of age , shaking off the shadow of Mrs Thatcher that had dogged him for 16 months . |
| 28 | The heroic all-rounder visited a specialist in London yesterday about a shoulder injury that has dogged him for some weeks . |
| 29 | In 1914 he became a master at Eton College , where he remained during World War I , a heart murmur having disqualified him for military service . |
| 30 | 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 . |