Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] him [verb] for the " in BNC.

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1 He pretended to me that he was already booked in there , but he was n't — I heard him ask for the room afterwards .
2 I asked for one ticket and paid for it , then I watched him ask for the same and fish down inside his carrier bag and bring out a ten pound note .
3 Now I see him scramble for the fallen gun .
4 Before leaving London I had sent him , as requested , two questions about the U-boat war which I wanted him to answer for the programme .
5 Following a meeting this morning at the Department of Energy , may I ask him to arrange for the Secretary of State to make a statement answering the anger in Coventry , not just about the way in which the pit was closed and the loss of jobs , but the belief that the closure took place to mothball 40 million tonnes of medium sulphur content coal so that , were the Conservatives to be re-elected and the pits privatised , Daw Mill could take that coal out in a UDM pit ?
6 I was the one who recommended him to try for the job .
7 He had to report to the headmaster at four o'clock , and was taken there by force by Foggerty who caught him racing for the school gates when the bell went .
8 It was Ben Crenshaw who persuaded him to enter for the 1981 Open .
9 But if you saw him running for the bus , he would go blue in the face and collapse on to the bus .
10 Billy was not a great goalscorer , but everyone who saw him play for the Palace is agreed that he helped to make hundreds of them for us .
11 So long as he 's our man , it does n't matter whether we have him shot for the murder of Daniel or this other fellow .
12 But he so impressed bosses they asked him to apply for the more senior post of general marketing director .
13 It made him long for the open fields of the island , again .
14 The revenues it generated — well over £2 million — were what enabled him to bid for the factory at Earby , only a couple of miles over the hill from Barnoldswick .
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