Example sentences of "[vb pp] he for [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Then since you accept what I say , madam — ’ interposed the cardinal with a sense of timing that suggested the protector had not nominated him for the task solely on account of his venerability ‘ — might I urge you to give the prince into my custody ! ’ |
| 2 | Deputy 's free and I 've booked him for the launch |
| 3 | Palottino had no answer to that , any more than Zen himself , though the question had tormented him for the whole drive back to Perugia . |
| 4 | And he looks a lot better for the change , although I have to tell you that by the time I had grilled him for an hour and tested him out on the snooker table I did notice that he reached for a cigarette . |
| 5 | They missed out on Shearer , who joined Kenny Dalglish at Ewood Park after Ferguson had tracked him for a year . |
| 6 | Rauti replaced the much younger Gianfranco Fini who had narrowly defeated him for the post in December 1987 [ see p. 35989 ] . |
| 7 | His background hardly prepared him for a life of elegant luxury as a film star or obedience to the star system . |
| 8 | Nothing in his IBM Corp background could have prepared him for the kind of speech he gave — in fact had to give , if Taligent is to be seen as the answer to the world 's ills . |
| 9 | Life had not prepared him for the task , and it soon became clear that he lacked the natural shrewdness and strength of character that a Gdansk plumber was to show the Polish bosses three years later . |
| 10 | Nothing however could have prepared him for the drama to come . |
| 11 | They passed two landings , Gordon following her with majestic tread , but faster than one might expect , since although he had lost time in hanging up his raincoat in the hall , he reached the door first , and opened it without any kind of announcement , and Edward was standing , with his back to them at first , thinner and smaller than she remembered , but then she always made the mistake when she had n't seen him for a bit — he turned round , protesting , and it was Edward . |
| 12 | It was great because Steve Marriott was on it as well and I had n't seen him for a couple of years . |
| 13 | Oh I was very , I have n't seen him for a while , being ill you do n't , but er , he was always sending messages of good will when I was in hospital . |
| 14 | They got worried when they had n't seen him for a while . |
| 15 | We had n't heard or seen him for a while so my father suggested I go round and check I 'm really horrified . |
| 16 | I have n't seen him for a while actually . |
| 17 | I have n't seen him for a day or two , ’ said the girl , ‘ but he usually comes in about now . ’ |
| 18 | She had not seen him for a month . |
| 19 | She had not seen him for an hour or more , he had been here earlier , had he left in a fit of boredom , was he sulking in |
| 20 | The first reference is a friendly one : ‘ Lord Goodman had always been very generous with his legal advice to Labour MPs , including me , and Harold Wilson had used him for a number of assignments , including an exploratory visit with Sir Max Aitken to Ian Smith in August 1968 on the possibilities of a settlement . |
| 21 | If only conventions were not so rigid she could easily have had him for a lodger . |
| 22 | I had invited him for a meal , and he left around midnight . ’ |
| 23 | The knowing look in his eyes let her know she had n't fooled him for an instant , but he gave a single nod . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Producer-director Arne Glimcher had tapped him for the role after catching his performance in Pedro Almodóvar 's Matador , in which he plays a melancholic bullfighter wannabe who faints at the sight of blood and gets dizzy watching clouds . |
| 26 | Perhaps if I 'd entered him for the Champion Hurdle , he might have sold . |
| 27 | The incident with the muntjac doe had distracted him for a while but gradually the sense of exultation in his deeds of the previous evening returned and blotted everything else from his mind . |
| 28 | I had known him for a number of years . |
| 29 | ‘ I 'd heard him for a bit by then . |
| 30 | Hurley had not forgiven him for the loss of Syrian George , and he was still under heavy pressure from Washington to show results , but in general Coleman made sure they got along for the sake of his back-channel reports to MC/10 Control . |