Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] him for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At this point I thought she might be distracted by the kid whose chair was sticking out , so I asked him for a second time to move back even further . |
| 2 | I met him for the first time ever when he took over the leadership of the party from the recently deceased Hugh Gaitskell in February 1963 . |
| 3 | ‘ We do n't want you to be neglected , ’ I told him for the umptieth time . |
| 4 | ‘ Not today , thank you , ’ I told him for the umptieth time . |
| 5 | I killed him for no more reason than I wanted to do it . |
| 6 | I lived with my husband for er , three and a half years , and I knew him for a good number of years before then , so we made a joint decision after that period of time that we were , wanted to commit ourselves |
| 7 | When I saw him for the first time , I fell in love with him at once . |
| 8 | Well they , I had to go to Road police station , London , it was quite good , the detective took , took me around that little area and er then when I got ready to collect to take him to Liverpool Street Station , I saw him for the first time , man about sixty one and he 'd got two suitcases , one lighter than the other , and while I was signing for him and his property I said to him , you take that light one and I 'll take the bigger one with the view to getting on the bus to get to Liverpool Street st but the inspector there was very good , he said I 'm not going to oh and I said to you take the light case I 'll take the high one , he said I ca n't carry anything , I got a rupture . |
| 9 | Soon after I got him I noticed a lump under his tummy , so I took him for a thorough check-up . |
| 10 | Yeah , I said yeah I am , I said I 'm gon na drive up and see , so we got in , went up to Wendy 's , you could n't see through the door Pen , Penny and Kev said well we 'll drive round as well , I said well she 's had us up and down , cos one minute she was quite strong then the next she could n't cope , I said Wendy all I want you to ever know is that I 'm there , if ever you want me phone me , I do n't care whether it 's middle of the night , middle of the morning or whatever , so she says alright , anyway Penny went up , she said she could n't see anything she thinks she 's gone a bed and then me and Rudy went up , it must have been quarter to one cos I took him for a little walk and I got out the car and walked round the back and then , I could see her curtains were open and I could see a light on , so I went round the front and I shouted through the letter box , Wen it 's only me I 've come to wish you a happy new year , let's hope next year will be better than this one and she come to the door and she was broken hearted |
| 11 | I thank him for a speedy and compassionate response . |
| 12 | I was so relieved it was all over and my baby was alright and I held him for the first time . |
| 13 | I forgave him for the many occasions on which he had unthinkingly made me feel mentally subnormal . |
| 14 | It was an experience which steeled him for the future task of having as many as a dozen major country houses under construction in any one year . |
| 15 | The court which sentences him for the latest offence will have to decide whether to return him to prison to serve a period equal to the balance of the sentence which remained on the day the offence was committed . |
| 16 | Pilot Stephen Grey was unhurt apart from a minor neck injury which hospitalised him for a short period . |
| 17 | This was not an opinion , simply the Catholic moral teaching , he said at the funeral of Henry Babbington , shot dead on Wednesday by IRA men who mistook him for a loyalist terrorist . |
| 18 | Thomas Poole the younger had been born into comfortable West Somerset obscurity in 1765 , and gave little sign to those who met him for the first time of the great gifts of character and intellect which he possessed . |
| 19 | ‘ You dropped him for the Prime Minister . ’ |
| 20 | Relations between the Prime Minister and Nigel Lawson may still be strained ( she blames him for the present difficulties ) . |
| 21 | To cover the fact that she had far too many feelings altogether , she ignored him for the first part of the morning . |
| 22 | COMIC Rowan Atkinson is anything but funny in real life and is convinced people who meet him for the first time think he is a disappointment . |
| 23 | So , ‘ Goodnight , Ven , ’ she bade him for a third time , only this time she stretched up to him and touched her lips to his cheek . |
| 24 | Please would she meet him for a long dinner on Friday — he would expect to hear from her tomorrow or the next day . |
| 25 | You saw him for the last time in 1959 . |
| 26 | Anyone know who marked him for the 3–3 draw at Leeds ? |
| 27 | ‘ Goodnight ! ’ she wished him for a fourth time , and went to her room feeling very much better about everything . |
| 28 | Hill 's ban ended in time for the 1987 World Cup but Bristol 's Richard Harding , who replaced him for the final Five Nations match — a stirring victory over Scotland — was first-choice in Australia and Hill 's last game for two years was against the United States . |
| 29 | but then you left him for an American carpenter . |
| 30 | Jekub can be a bit scary when you see him for the first time . ’ |