Example sentences of "[vb pp] him for [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nobody could have blamed him for trying it on , could they ? |
| 2 | He cited a Daily Mail article , rather curiously signed Editor , which had attacked him for presiding over the disappearance of ‘ an immense fortune ’ left hint by his father , and had concluded : ‘ It is difficult to see how the leader of a party who has lost his own fortune can hope to restore those of anyone else , or his country . |
| 3 | I remember it was he himself who put it most aptly one day when mother had scolded him for commencing work at home on a customer 's suit . |
| 4 | Imagine , she 'd thanked him for telling her Rob was missing ! |
| 5 | I had n't thanked him for doing the walls . |
| 6 | It was only as she rounded the corner that she remembered she had n't thanked him for walking her home . |
| 7 | But Marwood refuses to take issue with Bassett and , instead , has thanked him for furthering his management ambitions . |
| 8 | His cool irony brought swift colour to her cheeks as she recalled how furiously she had condemned him for doing just that . |
| 9 | In December , after Eisenhower had belatedly denounced him for trying to " set himself above the laws of our land " , he was condemned by the Senate . |
| 10 | She had rebuked him for drinking a bit too much beforehand . |
| 11 | Clubs punished him for taking unauthorised time off , missing training and breaking curfew . |
| 12 | Mr Anderson told the tribunal he could not apply for bad debt relief until 12 months after the debt had arisen while Customs had penalised him for paying the VAT ‘ a mere 16 days late . ’ |
| 13 | Richard Baxter , during the one time he was asked to preach before Oliver Cromwell , had criticised him for weakening the Church by encouraging divisions . |
| 14 | Now Mr Onanuga 's bosses have suspended him for making up the whole story about Mr Lamont . |
| 15 | On one occasion he is alleged to have told a bald papal legate who had just excommunicated him for refusing to abandon his mistress that he would see the legate 's hair in curlers before he gave her up . |