Example sentences of "he for [adj] [conj] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Judge held that George was responsible for instigating the crime and jailed him for four and a half years . |
| 2 | ‘ We have watched him for three and a half years and see nothing . |
| 3 | Jailing him for three and a half years Judge Richard Lowry described his behaviour as a dreadful crime . |
| 4 | She had always been too conscientious , never spared herself , been afraid to leave him for longer than a day , she deserved a rest , a holiday . |
| 5 | She remembered how she had n't been allowed to hold him for more than a moment before he had to go back behind the bars of his crib . |
| 6 | This time the defeat of his hopes did n't crush him for more than a few days . |
| 7 | ‘ Why were n't you able to keep him for more than a few months ? ’ |
| 8 | Nobody 's heard from him for more than a year . |
| 9 | Coleridge awoke , he said , retaining ‘ a distinct recollection of the whole ’ , and was eagerly committing the poem to writing when he was called out by a person on business from Porlock who detained him for more than an hour . |