Example sentences of "[to-vb] he for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The inclusion of this clause enables him to recover all loss , however remote , ( provided he can prove causation ) suffered as a result of the sellers 's wrongful acts , since the seller has , by the clause , undertaken an express obligation to compensate him for such loss . |
| 2 | An obstacle to Buchan 's transfer was that he would lose income from his Sunderland shop , and the deal was delayed for two months while ‘ under-the-counter ’ terms were agreed to compensate him for this loss . |
| 3 | Gusev deduced that Volkov was in love with a woman who 'd been sent to entrap him for political purposes , so Gusev deduced . |
| 4 | ‘ I have been waiting to pick him for some time but our form was not good and it was not easy on Dion living in hotels . |
| 5 | ‘ To howl down a man just because he happens to be out of form one day is often sufficient to discourage him for all time , ’ he told the Yorkshire Evening Post . |
| 6 | So that one day when they are sitting on their fat butts in frankfurt or Langley and some poor guy 's written seven point nine two centimetre automatic rifle instead of seven point nine two millimetre , they wo n't want to fire him for bad writing . |
| 7 | I tried to press him for some specifics , but he was n't saying much . |
| 8 | Although technically Yeltsin was still able to nominate Gaidar as Prime Minister , subject to Congress 's approval , and to retain him for three months even without such approval , it appeared that , realising the need for political compromise , he chose Chernomyrdin with Gaidar 's acquiescence . |
| 9 | He liked her to phone him for two reasons — it kept his phone bills down and if Gina answered it proved that he was fancied . |
| 10 | The popularity of Taylor 's devotional books , his sufferings for the Church , his piety , engaging manner , and contacts in influential Royalist circles might have been expected to qualify him for high preferment in the restored Church in 1660 . |
| 11 | Xishe 's wife is allowed to see him for 45 minutes twice a year . |
| 12 | The best thing for this chap would be to caution him for this offence . |
| 13 | Then slowly her sense of humour began to reassert itself and she was able to laugh , remembering the look of amazement on his handsome , hawklike face when she 'd threatened to report him for sexual harassment . |
| 14 | I 'm sure we can get an accountant to come and speak to us , but we might have to pay him for two hours work , you see . |
| 15 | By Spain , Jackie was beginning to feel the first twinges of the ulcer which was to hamper him for some time and keep him out of racing properly — and out of Belgium altogether — until July . |
| 16 | It was the question she had been screwing up her courage to ask him for some time , but Duro pretended he had n't heard , and turned away to talk to Dom Alfonso . |
| 17 | This was no doubt an acceptable enough decision on the facts had the EAT not propounded the thesis that ‘ if it was reasonable for [ the employee ] to decline these terms , then it would have been unreasonable for the employers to dismiss him for such refusal ’ . |
| 18 | The landlord should include in the terms of engagement that the agent is liable to reimburse him for any penalty or interest arising from the agent 's error or late submission of information . |
| 19 | That five was to haunt him for many months afterwards . |
| 20 | A normal family life , he repeated to himself , and smiled almost wanly at the thought of something that seemed destined to elude him for several years to come . |
| 21 | The ruling was made in the case of Jairo Jonathan Elias Zacarias who had fled from Guatemala in 1987 after guerrillas had attempted forcibly to recruit him for military service . |