Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] him for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Northamptonshire signed him for four years he shared digs with Colin Milburn and though he progressed less spectacularly than his former Durham colleague , Scott proved an able bowler . |
| 2 | I remember , one bloke , mind-reader he was — Steenie booked him for some Variety bill , forget where it was now . |
| 3 | Luton 's Philip Gray replaces him for next Wednesday 's qualifier against Denmark . |
| 4 | His lips twisted in scorn , and Lissa hated him for that look . |
| 5 | ‘ Oh , dear , you do n't want to hear my stories , ’ he would say when Benny and Eve plagued him for some information . |
| 6 | When Jamie came in with the food at gloaming , Cameron asked him for another blanket . |
| 7 | Julia loved him for that protectiveness , too , and pulled her hand out of his to let him go . |
| 8 | Judge Lawrence Verney jailed him for seven years foreach of the rapes and four years for each of the indecent assaults , all to run concurrently . |
| 9 | President Zia picked him for prime minister in March 1985 but he was criticised by the opposition for providing a democratic civilian facade to a military dictatorship . |
| 10 | One of his wins had qualified him for the National so when he came up for sale at Doncaster , Kempton secured him for 2,000 guineas on behalf of two of his owners who were keen to have a runner in the race . |
| 11 | Judge William Hannah jailed him for 12 months and disqualified him from driving for six months . |
| 12 | Today — Sunday , the day of THE FACE photo session — Melanie asks him for some quotes to give to the Daily Mirror about the affair . |
| 13 | Not content with damning Churchill for causing the Dardanelles disaster , attempting to stifle Bolshevism at birth , returning to the Gold Standard and trying to hold on to India , John Charmley faults him for opposing appeasement . |
| 14 | For Prothero is the demon-king of the Poundian pantomime , ever since Pound cast him for this role by printing , at the end of his essay on De Gourmont — originally in the Little Review , then in Instigations ( 1920 ) — the letter which Prothero wrote him in October 1914 : |