Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] him [adv prt] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Mummy told him off for saying it when I was there . |
| 3 | A few weeks later the appointments committee asked him back for another interview ; only one other candidate remained on the shortlist . |
| 4 | From there he was handed on to Bloomsbury House , where Elaine Blond agreed a one-off payment to fit him out for another job . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | He will inundate us with charters — and all because London Transport turned him down for a job . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | His looks , his temperament , his background — even his name marked him off for ridicule . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Iago rose to take his leave , but the prince called him back for a moment . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Although he has been looking for the little creep to beat him up for having steered him wrong , he realises that it is better to be with someone , even someone like Ratso , than to be alone . |
| 13 | But why should one incident put him off for ever ? |
| 14 | He has to compose around something , so his isolating ( once strident ) individualism sets him up for a Bowiesque plummet into British nationalism and a flirtation with racism with overtures to the Nazis . |
| 15 | This time the hospital kept him in for several weeks and his condition deteriorated until the Sunday morning the phone rang at 6.30 am and the words ‘ We think you should come to the hospital as soon as you can . ’ |
| 16 | By 1982 , the bank sent him off for four months ' study at Harvard Business School . |
| 17 | Blanche told the press officer to invite him round for an ‘ off the record ’ briefing . |