Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] he for [art] " in BNC.
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| 31 | She remembers the time he was coming out of his flat in the midst of a rainstorm and was approached by a young man who asked him for the price of a meal . |
| 32 | This was not an opinion , simply the Catholic moral teaching , he said at the funeral of Henry Babbington , shot dead on Wednesday by IRA men who mistook him for a loyalist terrorist . |
| 33 | Taskopruzade 's grandfather , for example , studied under Molla Yegan , probably at some time alter 839/1435–6 , and it was Molla Yegan who recommended him for the post at Taskopru . |
| 34 | One person whose eye he did catch was Patrick McGoohan , who recommended him for the role of cabin boy John Drake in Sir Francis Drake , a twenty-six-part adventure series made by ITC , whose boss , Lew Grade , was expert at making programmes that would sell to America ; one of them was Danger Man , starring McGoohan . |
| 35 | Thomas Poole the younger had been born into comfortable West Somerset obscurity in 1765 , and gave little sign to those who met him for the first time of the great gifts of character and intellect which he possessed . |
| 36 | Stoughton was even a friend of Matthew Arnold , who proposed him for the Athenaeum . |
| 37 | His seat is secure but he is also seeing the man who defeated him for the party leadership on the way to another victory for the Tories . |
| 38 | ‘ You dropped him for the Prime Minister . ’ |
| 39 | Relations between the Prime Minister and Nigel Lawson may still be strained ( she blames him for the present difficulties ) . |
| 40 | She blames him for the break-up of the coterie . |
| 41 | ‘ He feels as if you played him for a fool . |
| 42 | To cover the fact that she had far too many feelings altogether , she ignored him for the first part of the morning . |
| 43 | Managing the boat , he was in total command , and she admired him for the ease with which he wove between the countless busy craft , the pleasure boats , gondolas and the small and large ferries , his eyes constantly alert . |
| 44 | Sometimes he would be able to hire a premium artist , one who paid him for the privilege of playing . |
| 45 | COMIC Rowan Atkinson is anything but funny in real life and is convinced people who meet him for the first time think he is a disappointment . |
| 46 | ‘ I 'll be working like a Trojan for the next twelve weeks , ’ Lisa smiled back as she thanked him for the coffee . |
| 47 | Bond received threats of a ‘ warm welcome ’ from Burnley fans , who blamed him for the club 's decline after his season in charge eight years ago . |
| 48 | So , ‘ Goodnight , Ven , ’ she bade him for a third time , only this time she stretched up to him and touched her lips to his cheek . |
| 49 | Carolyn knew that he was angry with her , for some reason which she could n't fathom , and that the more she pressed him for an explanation the more he clammed up over it . |
| 50 | Please would she meet him for a long dinner on Friday — he would expect to hear from her tomorrow or the next day . |
| 51 | She watched him for a moment . |
| 52 | She watched him for a moment , wishing she did n't feel so defensive every time he broached the subject of Arnie . |
| 53 | She watched him for a while , feeling superfluous . |
| 54 | Who selected him for the job , General ? ’ |
| 55 | These words were probably written after the capture and tonsuring of the king in 731 by unnamed opponents who kept him for a while in a monastic centre , somewhere presumably in Northumbria . |
| 56 | And then , because she did n't want to be saying goodbye to him any sooner than she had to , she took him for a wander through the main part of the Hall to see how the preparations were going . |
| 57 | You saw him for the last time in 1959 . |
| 58 | Anyone know who marked him for the 3–3 draw at Leeds ? |
| 59 | One of the Tory MPs who supported him for the leadership of the party in 1990 told me that Michael Heseltine no longer had a political future . |
| 60 | Prince Charles rang her every day , suggesting she join him for a walk or a barbecue . |