Example sentences of "[adj] of [noun] for him " in BNC.
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| 1 | She stood beside him , lost , and bereft of comfort for him . |
| 2 | When she came back from a date with the Prince she would be full of sympathy for him uttering phrases like ‘ they work him too hard ’ or ‘ it 's appalling the way they push him around . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ He has been a tower of strength to her and she is full of admiration for him . |
| 4 | The following year Mazarin commissioned Francesco Buti , the librettist of Rossi 's Orfeo , to recruit Italian singers and write another work , Le nozze di Peleo e di Theti , for which a Roman composer Carlo Caproli supplied the music and in which the dancers included not only Lully but the 15-year-old Louis XIV who was full of admiration for him . |
| 5 | She felt her heart swell , so full of love for him that it ached , and , blinking back the tears that blurred and fragmented his image , she drew in a deep , steadying breath and examined the wound . |
| 6 | Perhaps the book of lamentation is not the book you normally turn to , to find words of encouragement , but there are tremendous encouragements to be found in it , listen what the profits says there , in the third chapter , he says this I recall to my mind , and he 's talking about the time of his own affliction , the time when he is going through it , the time when nobody loves him , the time when everybody 's against him , when he 's suffering and he 's in pain the time when life is full of bitterness for him , he says this I recall to my mind , therefore I have hope , the lords loving kindness indeed never ceases for his compassion 's never fail and here Jesus is demonstrating that , he 's compassion 's never fail , he 's loving kindnesses they never cease , here in his dying hour Jesus is showing that in reaching out to this man but as we said the other week the , the deepest , the most important significance of what Jesus did then , of what Jesus said then , its not just of the historical account , but that he is able and willing to say and to do exactly the same today in your experience and in mine , what he did for that man on the cross he 's ready and willing to do for every one of us the incident may of happened nineteen hundred years ago , but there 's the old hymn , the verse reminds us , picks out that very story and it says the dying thief rejoiced to see that fountain in his day and there may I , though via us he wash all my sins away , and that verse from William Cowper 's hymn , it takes up that great historical event , that tremendous happening in that man 's life and he links it with a present and it applies it to you and to me and says this can be our experience as well . |
| 7 | Listen what the prophet says there in the third chapter , he says , this I recall to my mind , and he 's talking about the time of his own affliction , the time when he is going through it , the time when nobody loves him , the time when everybody 's against him , when he 's suffering and he 's in pain , the time when life is full of bitterness for him , he says this I recall to my mind therefore I have hope . |
| 8 | I have been so full of hatred for him and his beastliness . |
| 9 | ‘ My feeling is one of sympathy for him , ’ said Robson in an interview with Radio Five . |