Example sentences of "him for [adj] [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | More than a hundred victims have now approached him for legal advice and doctors are still seeing new cases six weeks after chryptosporidium was first identified in the Farmoor reservoir . |
| 2 | I was with him for four hours and got nowhere ; I requested colleagues to have a crack at him all to no avail . |
| 3 | I cuddled him for four hours until he died in my hands . |
| 4 | Does the Minister accept that although some of us may have a disagreement with Bruce Millan , we have known him for many years and we know that he has always been , and is , punctilious in the exercise of his duties ? |
| 5 | He was supported by a most devoted wife who looked after him for many years until , late in his life , he rejected and abandoned her for a younger woman . |
| 6 | ‘ I 've bowled to him for two days and I ca n't get him , ’ he explained , ‘ so I just want to loosen up . ’ |
| 7 | Big Percy Cherrett fed off him for two seasons but it was Peter Simpson who benefited most from the work of the talented left-winger and it is no coincidence that Peter scored more goals in each of the three seasons in which Clarke was his team-mate than in any of the succeeding campaigns . |
| 8 | Afterwards , the representative from the film company said , ‘ I 've been looking after him for two weeks and that 's the first time I 've seen his teeth … . ’ |
| 9 | He is constantly haunted by the fear that the US might abandon him for one reason or another and has been particularly uneasy over the new US administration 's attitude towards him . " |
| 10 | Sir John Harington relates , however , how ‘ he would walk at certain hours in one of the aisles of St Paul 's , that if any came to him for spiritual advice and comfort ( as some did though not many ) he might impart it to them ’ . |
| 11 | But when we moved in here , because I 'd been away from him for five months and I 'd learned to cope for myself , I started standing up for myself and he did n't like it . |
| 12 | ‘ But I had worked closely with him for five years and knew he had the qualities to become a top boss . |
| 13 | ‘ But I had worked closely with him for five years and knew he had the qualities to become a top boss . |
| 14 | She has n't seen him for 20 years and remembers him as a ‘ nice guy ’ . |
| 15 | I have n't seen him for three years or so . |
| 16 | He had been discovered by the abbess 's steward , Richard of Bernstead , who , when he resisted attachment , seized and bound him , took him to Barking , imprisoned him for three days and afterwards delivered him to the forester and the verderer . |
| 17 | He was devoted to the Prince , but he had served him for ten years and his wife had scarcely seen him . |
| 18 | I looked up the name of my shop steward — Chris Pike — in a recent union bulletin , wrote to him for further information and he invited me up to the Branch Office . |
| 19 | ‘ We 'll send him for another x-ray when he 's completed his course of strep . ’ |
| 20 | Judge William Hannah jailed him for 12 months and disqualified him from driving for six months . |
| 21 | The landlord should include in the terms of engagement that the agent is liable to reimburse him for any penalty or interest arising from the agent 's error or late submission of information . |
| 22 | Because Boo had not been seen for so long by Maycomb , he was turned into a scapegoat by the adults who blamed him for any thing and every thing that went wrong , and the children thought of him as a terrible monster with blood dripping from his mouth who ate squirrels . |
| 23 | I asked him for some bread and cheese , and he went down to the kitchen . ’ |
| 24 | When she looked back at Mick she allowed her gaze to rest on him for some seconds before she answered , ‘ Of course I know who it is . |
| 25 | Her face was on a level with his ; she stared at him for some seconds before she said quietly , ‘ You need n't be concerned that you might have started something ; I 've got no ideas that way . |
| 26 | In retirement Leslie launched the Oswestry Festival of Village Choirs , which absorbed him for some years until underfunding brought it to an end . |
| 27 | ‘ I have been waiting to pick him for some time but our form was not good and it was not easy on Dion living in hotels . |
| 28 | I think the Algerians have been angry with him for some time and are prepared to let Polisario have a free hand . ’ |
| 29 | By Spain , Jackie was beginning to feel the first twinges of the ulcer which was to hamper him for some time and keep him out of racing properly — and out of Belgium altogether — until July . |
| 30 | Oh yeah , I mean I had a horrible time with him for some time and it just , just |