Example sentences of "he [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But in the former case the plaintiff will have a capital asset in his hands , and he is only entitled to recover damages to compensate him for the additional expenditure involved . |
| 2 | Had n't he understood that she had given herself to him for the only reason that made any sense to her . |
| 3 | ‘ You dropped him for the Prime Minister . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ Which must mean that , regardless of the fact that he 's so wound up over you he ca n't think straight , you 're only playing around with him for the pure hell of it . ’ |
| 5 | Mr Kinnock staggers under the additional handicap of having no ministerial experience which would equip him for the supreme office to which he aspires . |
| 6 | I got off with Andrew but that 's all a p only a who I get off with him and I do n't fancy him , I know I do n't want to go out with him I just fancy him for the occasional snog , fair enough but I 'm just saying like you know you fancy |
| 7 | His father had named him for the Mughal Babur , a conqueror , a hard drinking , hard riding Turk who loved poetry , laughter and gardens . |
| 8 | It was an experience which steeled him for the future task of having as many as a dozen major country houses under construction in any one year . |
| 9 | ‘ We do n't want to rush Mick because it 's a long season and we need him for the long haul . |
| 10 | And after the curtain call , when he was going upstairs to the extras ' dressing-room and had bumped into Mr Potter — she was n't talking at second-hand but had actually witnessed the scene — far from showing remorse he had confronted him as though he was going to head-butt him for the second time . |
| 11 | The boy was standing there , smiling at him for the second time that day . |
| 12 | On another occasion his reference to the duty of the Old Testament prophets to denounce God 's judgements to the King and Court was reported to James II , who sent for him and reproached him for the controversial bitterness with which he had spoken . |
| 13 | I KNEW of Doctor Ladislav Mareda through British friends who had worked with him for the English-language section of Prague radio until the crushing of the Prague Spring in 1968 . |
| 14 | In all such cases the plaintiff is entitled to damages to compensate him for the lost benefit . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | But he says the payout ca n't begin to compensate him for the devastating effect the accident has had on his life . |
| 17 | The selectors kept faith and picked him for the first Test at Edgbaston , where he bowled 42 overs without trouble , taking four wickets in his maiden Test , which England won , fairly comfortably , but 100 runs . |
| 18 | To cover the fact that she had far too many feelings altogether , she ignored him for the first part of the morning . |
| 19 | The quarrel between faith and unbelief touched him for the first time and unsettled his mind . |
| 20 | Vincent looked at him , as if seeing him for the first time . |
| 21 | She turned to look into Gazzer 's face , concentrating her attention on him for the first time since he had climbed up to sit beside her in the sand dunes . |
| 22 | Not until he was five years old did Endill meet him for the first time . |
| 23 | She looked up at Trent , as if seeing him for the first time : ‘ I 'd have drowned if you 'd left me on the Key . ’ |
| 24 | Val left him for the first time since they had set up house , and went briefly ‘ home ’ . |
| 25 | The Campbells were waiting to greet him in the hall , and Elizabeth saw him for the first time . |
| 26 | I could then have pretended to notice him for the first time and have engaged him in conversation in an impromptu manner . |
| 27 | A Jewish chronicler attributed the success of the expedition entirely to the youthful Ensign , calling him for the first time ‘ Cidi ’ , the equivalent of Mio Cid ‘ my lord ’ . |
| 28 | Thomas Poole the younger had been born into comfortable West Somerset obscurity in 1765 , and gave little sign to those who met him for the first time of the great gifts of character and intellect which he possessed . |
| 29 | COMIC Rowan Atkinson is anything but funny in real life and is convinced people who meet him for the first time think he is a disappointment . |
| 30 | After meeting him for the first time , Vincent thought that he must be wealthy . |