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 . |