Example sentences of "he [adv] for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You could have kept him on for two quid a week . |
| 2 | I concluded from what Heather told me that Alan had taken him on for old time 's sake . ’ |
| 3 | This time the hospital kept him in for several weeks and his condition deteriorated until the Sunday morning the phone rang at 6.30 am and the words ‘ We think you should come to the hospital as soon as you can . ’ |
| 4 | so he said I 've had to , they 'd have to keep him in for ten days or more you know |
| 5 | We turn to God in worship , thanking him daily for all things , pleasant or not . |
| 6 | She played him patiently for two days before she hooked him , and reeled him in . |
| 7 | Maura loved him just for those words . |
| 8 | An academic takes him away for extensive intelligence tests , but he becomes disruptive and eventually opts to return home . |
| 9 | Then I put him away for two years . |
| 10 | The same sort of ‘ business ’ that was taking him away for ten days . |
| 11 | He only had a little bit , but they put him away for three years . |
| 12 | Sir Robert Catesby greeted Agrippa warmly , taking him aside for secret consultations whilst ignoring Benjamin and me . |
| 13 | Had it not been his solicitors the Inland Revenue would have got him yesterday for unpaid tax bills , but its petition was dismissed automatically once the High Court heard that a bankruptcy order had already been made . |
| 14 | By 1982 , the bank sent him off for four months ' study at Harvard Business School . |
| 15 | I 'll write him up for that medication now . ’ |
| 16 | PSYCHIATRIC reports are to be prepared on an unemployed woodcutter , Brian McGregor , whose forged football coupon lined him up for potential winnings of £3,826.47 billion . |
| 17 | It set him up for next year , I 'm sure . |
| 18 | The 24-year-old Luton striker was sent off at Chester after scoring his first goal of the season , but Billy Bingham has called him up for next week 's Group Six qualifier against the Republic of Ireland in Dublin . |
| 19 | He was beginning to wonder if they were n't already softening him up for some kind of a change . |
| 20 | I know that whether it was trying to dig him up for some doubles at Kyalami or just dropping in on him aboard the Queen Mary , I always called up first to make sure he was not otherwise engaged , and I can recall many times when James appeared at the track looking benign but far from fresh . |
| 21 | ‘ I 've written him up for some medication to ease the headache . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ I think he 'll be finished for this season , but we 'll bring him back for another crack at the Champion next season , ’ he said . |
| 23 | A few weeks later the appointments committee asked him back for another interview ; only one other candidate remained on the shortlist . |
| 24 | ‘ He could start back after Christmas but that would be too late for Cheltenham and there is always the risk that he could do more damage which would set him back for next season . ’ |
| 25 | He faces a fitness test today on the hamstring strain that has kept him out for two matches . |
| 26 | But Reid 's fury was outweighed by his concern over Paul Lake , who was carried off after seven minutes with what appeared to be a recurrence of the knee injury that kept him out for two years . |
| 27 | CROCKED star Gary Stevens last night blasted the Airdrie hard-man who has put him out for six weeks . |
| 28 | He had been thinking , as he frequently did , of pain , and of how it almost seemed as though Rogal Dorn had singled him out for special benediction even before the Primarch 's germ-plasm had been introduced into his body … |
| 29 | And what would his heart tell him about the gods , who had singled him out for this fate ? |
| 30 | From there he was handed on to Bloomsbury House , where Elaine Blond agreed a one-off payment to fit him out for another job . |