Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] him for the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It occurred to him for the first time that Celia would be a bad enemy , just as she was a good friend . |
| 2 | Yet , I am not writing about him for the above reasons , it 's rather on account of an unlikely weakness of his than for one of his many strengths . |
| 3 | ‘ Bring a horse , ’ said Hotspur , rearing up fiercely and looking about him for the nearest serviceable squire , ‘ and get him on to it . |
| 4 | It was full of pieces of paper , which he dropped behind him for the other boys to follow . |
| 5 | Her eyes flew upward , looking at him for the first time . |
| 6 | I went to him for the political because I was a red hot loyalist at that time . |
| 7 | Becky 's dark eyes fixed on him for the first time . |
| 8 | ‘ Please , ’ she replied softly then looked at him for the first time since he had sat down . |
| 9 | She looked at him for the first time , then lowered her eyes again . |
| 10 | I KNEW of Doctor Ladislav Mareda through British friends who had worked with him for the English-language section of Prague radio until the crushing of the Prague Spring in 1968 . |
| 11 | Jazz 's target was to stay with him for the full four minutes . |
| 12 | Then Riven asked the question that had been gnawing at him for the last day : ‘ What about Murtach ? ’ |
| 13 | She 'd slaved for him for the last seven year , and before that ever since she was born — eight or nine year was it — at the Old Mint ? |
| 14 | Mr Davidson 's father , Robert Snr , said Mrs Holmes had been working for him for the last eight years . |
| 15 | Pain relief is important in myocardial infarction , but let that not be an excuse for filling a patient with opiates and then forgetting about him for the next 2 hours as he quietly rots his myocardium in some corner of the accident and emergency department . |
| 16 | The boy was standing there , smiling at him for the second time that day . |