Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] him for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | You have to get him wound down a bit , you have to do it , you know of a about half an hour or so ask him for the proper name ! |
| 2 | I got off with Andrew but that 's all a p only a who I get off with him and I do n't fancy him , I know I do n't want to go out with him I just fancy him for the occasional snog , fair enough but I 'm just saying like you know you fancy |
| 3 | The letter is interesting , though , for the light it casts on his rooted dread of mental imbalance , and on his horrified feeling that the unsatisfactory relations which had existed between himself and his father since eariy adolescence might somehow mar him for the rest of his life : You and I are both qualified for it [ neurosis ] because we were both afraid of our fathers as children . |
| 4 | He might be the key to her freedom , but she still hated him for the confusion he aroused in her . |
| 5 | Even Dole , who once challenged him for the Presidency , was on verge of tears . |
| 6 | Sanderson was a friend of Skottowe and probably recommended him for the job . |
| 7 | Natural aptitude and a career in radio , film and television had helped him become an outstanding communicator — a strength chat not only made him a formidable campaigner , but also equipped him for the business of government in the television age . |
| 8 | Also ask him for the telephone number of the Home Service Adviser for your area , in case you need further advice . |
| 9 | It was a move that clearly suited him for the following season he was picked for the county squad . |
| 10 | This was clearly to prepare him for the task of taking over the captaincy the next summer . |
| 11 | Though he attempted a detailed rebuttal , chapter by chapter , Milton himself had to admit that ‘ Some men have by policy accomplished after death that revenge upon their enemies which in life they were not able ’ , and that ‘ they who before hated him for his high government , nay fought against him with displayed banners in the field , now applaud him for the wisest and most religious prince that lived ’ . |
| 12 | I am certainly going to miss him , I have only really known him for the past seven days , but it seems like years . |
| 13 | As he unhesitatingly obeyed , she watched him , really examined him for the first time in their acquaintance . |
| 14 | It was then that she really saw him for the first time and the blood began to sing in her ears . |
| 15 | And indeed it was from this time that he began to suffer the kind of serious ill health which was regularly to affect him for the rest of his life . |
| 16 | Middlesex , who fined him around £750 for a foul-mouthed outburst earlier in the season , immediately dropped him for the game against Hampshire . |
| 17 | Rauti replaced the much younger Gianfranco Fini who had narrowly defeated him for the post in December 1987 [ see p. 35989 ] . |
| 18 | Fearless and aggressive , Jack become one of Palace 's youngest captains when he took over as skipper in 1956 , his determination and enthusiasm admirably suiting him for the role . |
| 19 | The chairman said : ‘ He was a shelf stacker at Tescos and said it fully qualified him for the job ! ’ |
| 20 | Strong , colourful midfield player or striker , Andy Gray had been with the Palace as a schoolboy during the Terry Venables era at Selhurst Park , but disappeared into non-league soccer so that it was actually from Dulwich Hamlet that Manager Steve Coppell initially signed him for The Eagles in November 1984 . |
| 21 | Unexpected , this affected him strongly , indeed left him for the moment in a strange turmoil emotionally . |
| 22 | Hoskyns badly wanted him for the post . |
| 23 | Liessa spared him a brief glance , and appeared actually to notice him for the first time . |
| 24 | He pushed his bicycle up the hill from Wheatley station in the company of another new student who had a strangely similar background : of nonconformist origins , with his father an official of a nonconformist Church ; a young man who postponed his own confirmation into the Church of England because his parents might be hurt ; and who swung at the university from his very Protestant background into a sense of the devotional stature in Anglo-Catholicism , and into convictions which never left him for the rest of his life ; a graduate of Balliol College , by name Austin Farrer . |
| 25 | Khrushchev could never forgive him for the cruelties and stupidities that brought Russia so close to defeat by Hitler . |