Example sentences of "[vb infin] he for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Why did they need him for this job ? |
| 2 | Apparently , the free spending Italian club AC Milan were so taken with him that they offered Celtic a fee of £100,000 for his services , only to recoil in fear when the club 's manager Jock Stein told him they could only rent him for one game for that amount . |
| 3 | He grew a real beard , which would incommode him for other parts ; he thought , behaved , responded Learwise , in as short-sighted a fashion as that monarch would have done , having handed on his characteristics to his youngest daughter . |
| 4 | ‘ We 'll send him for another x-ray when he 's completed his course of strep . ’ |
| 5 | And then the next little breath he 's off to America and you do n't see him for four weeks . |
| 6 | So we wo n't see him for many years , perhaps never again ! |
| 7 | I did n't see him for several days . |
| 8 | There was scant eating in the meat , but it would sustain him for some days , assuming he could keep the scent away from wolves . |
| 9 | Mardon , who began a week 's trial at Anfield on Monday , suffered an ankle ligament injury during training which will sideline him for two weeks . |
| 10 | He was no more blind than you or I. Did n't you recognize him for that man we gave a ride to on the road ? |
| 11 | Holding that the defence was not available the court in effect classified the defendant 's belief that the arrest was unlawful as a mistake of law , which could not avail him for these purposes . |
| 12 | He is constantly haunted by the fear that the US might abandon him for one reason or another and has been particularly uneasy over the new US administration 's attitude towards him . " |
| 13 | In November 1959 he found himself back in Montreal , ‘ to renew his neurotic affiliations ’ as he was to repeat endlessly to journalists ; meeting his friends and family , sometimes bumping into his uncles who would take him for expensive meals at top restaurants — such as the Ritz — and hotels ; and generally awakening and reawakening those impulses and memories which would fire his imagination and energise his mind for months to come . |
| 14 | Jeff was voted their Player of the Year last season , but they 've let me have him for six months . |
| 15 | By gaw , he 's a topper and ah would n't sell 'im for any money , No man could ask for a better friend . " |
| 16 | I do n't blame him for one minute . |
| 17 | but yesterday morn he was , yesterday morning he started crying did n't he , I did n't leave him for any length of time |
| 18 | She would not , could not leave him for this boy ! |
| 19 | He appeared to have learned his lesson last season , but the fact that he needs Robson 's ‘ Englishness ’ for Europe means he will pick him for some league games such as Chelsea last week , and was n't he crap ; > } |
| 20 | Ian Salisbury , who played in half the Test matches , returned figures which will haunt him for some time . |