Example sentences of "he for [art] [noun sg] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Owen had taken him for a Sudani because his face was black . |
| 2 | Theo was about to travel from The Hague to Etten , en route for a new post in Paris , and Vincent pressed him to ‘ leave the train ’ on the second leg of his journey and stay with him for a day or two . |
| 3 | I have n't seen him for a day or two , ’ said the girl , ‘ but he usually comes in about now . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ If I speak to Nerina , ’ said Bernard , whose blood pressure was so low there was talk of admitting him for a day or so , ‘ she might lift the curse . |
| 5 | In the second play , Audience , Ferdinand is called in by the head maltster , played by Freddie Jones , who insists that he joins him for a drink and a chat . |
| 6 | They were amused by him for a while but he did n't keep his place . |
| 7 | Vincente caddied for him for a while but it was an awkward role for a big brother . |
| 8 | The incident with the muntjac doe had distracted him for a while but gradually the sense of exultation in his deeds of the previous evening returned and blotted everything else from his mind . |
| 9 | We had n't heard or seen him for a while so my father suggested I go round and check I 'm really horrified . |
| 10 | Shelley stood watching him for a while before he noticed her , and he came down to greet her . |
| 11 | Cameron looked steadily at him for a while until Stewart turned his head with a little toss and swallowed down his wine . |
| 12 | She sat and rocked him for a while until he felt all right again and then went upstairs and dressed herself in a low-backed , jade green jumpsuit and gold pumps and gold hoop ear-rings , and felt exotic . |
| 13 | On the latter 's arrival , they had talked to him for a while and then he had gone off with them . |
| 14 | And I think they 'd just been hounding him for a while and that was the last straw . |
| 15 | We 'll leave him for a minute or two , then I 'll test his reflexes . ’ |
| 16 | We agreed to have him for a fortnight but when the time came he refused to go , and would be with us yet if it had not been for the First World War and your father having to go … |
| 17 | Not till later was it diagnosed that the mental breakdown which destroyed Hoskyns crept upon him for a year or more before he died . |
| 18 | ‘ I went out with him for a year and a half , ’ she replies . |
| 19 | I teased him for a bit that I did n't get it , it went for so much . |
| 20 | Jimmy cursed him for a fool and thanked him for standing aside . |
| 21 | Charity gazed at him for a second or two . |
| 22 | Jack , by then very famous , called him for a chat and asked if he needed anything . |
| 23 | Roland took him for a caricature and bristled vestigially with class irritation . |
| 24 | Prince Charles rang her every day , suggesting she join him for a walk or a barbecue . |
| 25 | She looked to him for a lead and he gave it to her . |
| 26 | Not the clankings and gratings of the Zoo which lay off in the distance to his right , now obscured by the trees over which he had flown in the night , but the call of a thousand birds whose busyness and life shook his fears off him for a time and replaced them with a sense of wonder . |
| 27 | Nicholas 's voice checked him for a moment but when he turned he saw that the taxi driver was out of the cab and attempting to restrain him . |
| 28 | It lifted him for a moment before it threw him down , so that for a second he saw what he wanted : that the sea had already overrun the beach and the rocks and the shingle and was advancing like a black wall rimmed with white over the slipways and grasslands of Orphir . |
| 29 | The President regarded him for a moment and Trent thought that the old man might rally . |
| 30 | Martin looked at him for a moment and smiled softly at him as he said , ‘ I would , laddie , but you 'd better not ; I think your mother needs you tonight . |