Example sentences of "[vb infin] him for the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Certainly Jenny did not see him for the first few evenings she was at Moorlake . |
| 2 | One day soon she would see him for the last time . |
| 3 | Not until he was five years old did Endill meet him for the first time . |
| 4 | But he pledged last night that he would still be leading the team for tomorrow 's League game at Darlington even if Flashman does sack him for the third time in a year . |
| 5 | Old Peter was off to a STBO Club trip to Warwick Castle and besides , we 'd pay him for the two barrowloads we liberated . |
| 6 | Mr Kinnock staggers under the additional handicap of having no ministerial experience which would equip him for the supreme office to which he aspires . |
| 7 | Rather than punish him for the attempted rebellion , Henry gave Richard the task of quelling the very Aquitainian rebels from whom he had so recently looked for support . |
| 8 | The process did n't perturb him for the simple reason that it did n't repel Willie . |
| 9 | I shall ask him for the latest joke at the gates of heaven , . ’ |