Example sentences of "[noun] for [verb] he [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of Malcolm McLaren 's collaborators at the time of the Sex Pistols , Jamie Reid gets a mention for persuading him of the importance of situationism , and Vivienne Westwood for producing a t-shirt slogan proclaiming how boring Derek Jarman 's Jubilee was . |
| 2 | DAVE BASSETT last night thanked old pal Bobby Gould for saving him from a possible FA rap . |
| 3 | And he blamed another girl for getting him into the drugs scene . |
| 4 | Mr Sergei Shakhrai , a key Yeltsin adviser , said he was instigating legal proceedings against Mr Khasbulatov for insulting him in an interview . |
| 5 | God his name and if thy name for carry him in every heart and . |
| 6 | Lovell gave Coleridge food that night , but not shelter , and in the days that followed was responsible with Southey for introducing him to a city strong in religious dissent and political radicalism . |
| 7 | David Icke insists he made no such claim , and blames the media for turning him into a laughing-stock . |
| 8 | ‘ He died cursing your father for trapping him into a loveless marriage , ’ he growled . |
| 9 | Suspended for a week by the club , fined £2,000 and dropped following misbehaviour at a supporters ' dinner , Merson spoke of the 89th-minute winner that restored Arsenal to the top as a personal thankyou to Arsenal 's players and staff for assisting him on the road to recovery . |
| 10 | Nadirpur spoke to his office in Monaco and left instructions for contacting him at the IAP offices in London . |
| 11 | But as he was brought in six months later when Curzon died , age was hardly a reason for excluding him from an office without portfolio in 1924 . |
| 12 | Rodrigo marched into Valencia in triumph , only to learn that his old adversary Berenguer of Barcelona — who had never forgiven the Cid for capturing him in an earlier campaign — had formed an alliance with the Moorish lord of Lerida and El Cid 's own sometime ally Mostain of Saragossa . |
| 13 | I felt like apologising to Redpath for putting him to a lot of trouble for scant reason . |
| 14 | He credits Gwen and the Lovejoy series for rescuing him from a wasted life of bed-hopping , booze and drugs . |