Example sentences of "to he for the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Perhaps , because I had really addressed myself to him for the first time , he thought we were in accord .
2 It occurred to him for the first time that Celia would be a bad enemy , just as she was a good friend .
3 It came home to him for the first time that what had seemed to him a trivial event , a stupid joke , was something genuinely much bigger to Andrus .
4 I went to him for the political because I was a red hot loyalist at that time .
5 Oh , poor Travis , Leith thought , her sympathies going out to him for the terrible time he was having .
6 Had n't he understood that she had given herself to him for the only reason that made any sense to her .
7 But she was going to have to keep the door open to him for the next twenty years and , like it or not , it was something that she would have to come to terms with .
8 Is my right hon. Friend aware that I am extremely grateful to him for the wise decision to retain the St.
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