Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] he [adv] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sir Kenneth invited him round for tea and by the time he had left Andrews had been given the huge task of designing a fulllength ballet involving set changes and 300 costumes . |
| 2 | Scott regarded him impassively for a moment . |
| 3 | She thanked him and waited while David invited him in for a cup of tea . |
| 4 | He said : ‘ The lad is torn politically because while their president is happy to let us have him on trial , the trainer wants him back for matches . |
| 5 | Donna regarded him blankly for a moment , then nodded . |
| 6 | Mummy told him off for saying it when I was there . |
| 7 | A few weeks later the appointments committee asked him back for another interview ; only one other candidate remained on the shortlist . |
| 8 | If his work kept him late for a meal , he had satirical reproaches cast upon his head by the landlady . |
| 9 | From there he was handed on to Bloomsbury House , where Elaine Blond agreed a one-off payment to fit him out for another job . |
| 10 | No , he would n't let business make him late for Shabbos . |
| 11 | PSYCHIATRIC reports are to be prepared on an unemployed woodcutter , Brian McGregor , whose forged football coupon lined him up for potential winnings of £3,826.47 billion . |
| 12 | He will inundate us with charters — and all because London Transport turned him down for a job . |
| 13 | An academic takes him away for extensive intelligence tests , but he becomes disruptive and eventually opts to return home . |
| 14 | Professor Brighouse has no idea why Mr Patten singled him out for attack , but says the Secretary of State has been under a lot of pressure |
| 15 | All in a year he won European indoor gold in Madrid , the Commonwealth silver in Edinburgh and the European outdoor gold over 100 metres in Stuttgart where officials ticked him off for collecting his medal while draped in the Union Jack . |
| 16 | The brave tot , who has been battling leukaemia since he was six weeks old , was bouncing with life yesterday as mum Michelle took him out for a treat . |
| 17 | Botham had the first six wickets before Marshall and Baptiste held him up for while , Marshall being lucky not to be on the wrong end of a legendary catch when Don Topley , a groundstaff boy who went on to play for Essex , brilliantly caught him one-handed on the square leg boundary , only to put one foot over the rope . |
| 18 | That upbringing served him well for Robert Redford 's Thirties drama The River Runs Through It , adapted from a novel by Norman MacLean about family conflict and fly fishing . |
| 19 | His hands were not particularly robust , but he missed very few matches until June 1952 , when appendicitis ruled him out for the rest of the summer . |
| 20 | All who knew Victor respected him both for his depth of knowledge of VAT , particularly in the land and property area , and for the innate wisdom and common sense he showed in advising his many friends and clients . |
| 21 | His looks , his temperament , his background — even his name marked him off for ridicule . |
| 22 | Charlie was sensitive about having false teeth at thirty — why had n't all that wartime milk and orange juice set him up for life as it had his contemporaries ? — but he did n't mind Jack knowing . |
| 23 | Iago rose to take his leave , but the prince called him back for a moment . |
| 24 | Chapman became a target man in more ways than one as the Germans singled him out for a buffeting that went unpunished by Swedish referee Rune Larsson . |
| 25 | Well — he would not , and the laird turned him out for it — he turned him out and sent him off and we have had no land since and he put nobody else into Upper Farrochil — he only wanted it for himself . |
| 26 | The American woman watched him intently for several minutes , a commotion of half-forgotten sensations stirring within her , but if he had noticed her presence he gave no sign . |
| 27 | But at the same time I realise it means they 're basically trying to control my music which I did n't expect ’ As for taking him seriously , American composer Philip Glass offered to do a 12-inch remix of Hey Music Lover after Moore took him out for a night in the clubs . |
| 28 | People call him up for art advice from all over the world . |
| 29 | Woody Allen passed him over for a musical . |
| 30 | Another episode that gave him much reassurance was the time when Kate invited him in for tea at the Rectory . |