Example sentences of "he [adj] for [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then , on the eve of the second Test in Madras , Gooch had his infamous encounter with a poisonous prawn that laid him low for several days and was out of the match with diarrhoea and sickness that laid him low for several days . |
| 2 | Then , on the eve of the second Test in Madras , Gooch had his infamous encounter with a poisonous prawn that laid him low for several days and was out of the match with diarrhoea and sickness that laid him low for several days . |
| 3 | Keep him alive for fifty seconds . |
| 4 | I could take him to sea and keep him clean for three months , but how do you know that the moment the court case is done he wo n't just stuff his nose full of crap again ? ’ |
| 5 | John Gummer ran past the door , an overcoat over his pyjamas , carrying his famous pillow , the one with ‘ Not tonight , Josephine ’ written on it , and a small valise which he took with him ready for such emergencies . |
| 6 | Could it be , as Kimura ( 1977b ) suggests , that : brain regions considered to he important for symbolic-language processes might better be conceived as important for the production of motor sequences which happen to lend themselves readily to communication ? |