Example sentences of "[verb] him [adv] for the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Rather than selling him , we are about to offer James a new and extended contract which will keep him here for the next two or three years . ’ |
| 2 | Impulses of attraction towards beautiful forms or faces troubled him frequently for the next two years at Oxford . |
| 3 | For all that , had she been right just to abandon him pitilessly for the first dashing knight to Pass her way ? |
| 4 | Studying him now , dispassionately , without the emotional blindness of the aftermath of her accident , or the initial shock of finding that he was last night 's rescuer , it was like seeing him properly for the first time … |
| 5 | One of Alejandro 's sons playing back rode him off for the backhand and hit it up the field to his brother who dribbled it a few yards , then sliced it to Perdita . |
| 6 | At the last he was in front , but he was dead tired and Winter could do nothing to hold him together for the final desperate few yards to the line . |
| 7 | His sports and hobbies frequently took him away for the best part of the weekend ; work also ate into parts of Saturday and Sunday . |
| 8 | He looked at Mitch , studying him closely for the first time . |
| 9 | Perhaps he thought that if he made a success of the concert party , word would get around amongst show business that here was someone to keep an eye on , and his big chance might come ; that someone important in the music world might come up to him with a contract in his hand and sign him up for the next ten years as a successor to Sir Malcolm Sargeant . |
| 10 | No doubt this ‘ concession ’ was to soften him up for the next examination . |
| 11 | I had been telling him so for the last few weeks . |
| 12 | Until that moment they were reconciled to leaving him behind for the proposed four-week tour . |