Example sentences of "[be] [verb] he [adv] for " in BNC.

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1 ‘ I 've been seeing him regularly for a few months now .
2 You write to an imaginary friend , you 're inviting him down for the summer holidays and you say all that , all about the sort of things that you 're planning to do with them , make it up
3 Doctors at the East London rehabilitation unit where he is recovering are sending him home for Christmas with his family in Chingford , Essex .
4 Why ca n't you just say : " There 's a bloke I 've met and I 'm bringing him home for tea on Tuesday . "
5 She 's been putting him off for years .
6 I had been telling him so for the last few weeks .
7 The 34-year-old former Liverpool and Blackburn star has been unable to fix himself up with another club since the summer , but the Robins ' boss is lining him up for a reserve game against Walsall next week .
8 For years he keeps the kid hidden away like the greatest secret in the galaxy , and now he 's showing him off for everybody to see .
9 Trainer Francois Doumen said last night : ‘ The challenge is to bring him back for Gold Cup day in the same shape he was for Kempton .
10 ‘ Then I shall get a train in the opposite direction , ’ he said , thinking that there was something sad about it , especially now that she was thanking him politely for the drinks .
11 It felt too much as if she was shunting him off for her own convenience , even though she knew that it was the only sane and sensible thing to do .
12 The same sort of ‘ business ’ that was taking him away for ten days .
13 No doubt this ‘ concession ’ was to soften him up for the next examination .
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