Example sentences of "[vb past] him for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For Prothero is the demon-king of the Poundian pantomime , ever since Pound cast him for this role by printing , at the end of his essay on De Gourmont — originally in the Little Review , then in Instigations ( 1920 ) — the letter which Prothero wrote him in October 1914 : |
| 2 | And she scolded him for frightening children Adam , six , Louise , four , and two-year-old Carl . |
| 3 | The Russian official recently so upset his domestic association that they suspended him for two months , although UEFA insist : ‘ He 's still one of the best referees in Europe and the right man for the job . ’ |
| 4 | The Russian official recently so upset his domestic association that they suspended him for two months , although UEFA insist : ‘ He 's still one of the best referees in Europe and the right man for the job . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ Players are overpaid , pampered prima donnas , ’ he says , with a bluntness once very familiar to League secretary Alan Hardaker who in 1970 suspended him for ten weeks . |
| 6 | The German academics very prudently ignored him for forty years ; but lately , to the disgrace of Germany , he has been discovered by an English critic . |
| 7 | It has now been decided to write to Rangers asking for their views on statements attributed to the three men since Ferguson 's club dropped him for disciplinary reasons , after which it came to light that Murray had spoken to United 's manager/chairman , Jim Mclean , about buying the Scotland internationalist . |
| 8 | Stephane Grappelli , the renowned jazz violinist , employed English agents who booked him for certain concerts . |
| 9 | I remember , one bloke , mind-reader he was — Steenie booked him for some Variety bill , forget where it was now . |
| 10 | One of his wins had qualified him for the National so when he came up for sale at Doncaster , Kempton secured him for 2,000 guineas on behalf of two of his owners who were keen to have a runner in the race . |
| 11 | ‘ Oh , dear , you do n't want to hear my stories , ’ he would say when Benny and Eve plagued him for some information . |
| 12 | I cuddled him for four hours until he died in my hands . |
| 13 | In this act , Luke is saying that God , who sent Jesus to do his work on earth , now consecrated him for that work . |
| 14 | Last year the Home Secretary reappointed him for five years : the first of the BBC 's 17 chairmen since incorporation in 1927 to receive a second full term . |
| 15 | His lips twisted in scorn , and Lissa hated him for that look . |
| 16 | Doubts about the genuineness of his own faith troubled him for many years . |
| 17 | She patiently gammed him for long minutes ; fondling his testicles with one hand , and exploring the cleft of his arse with the other . |
| 18 | Northamptonshire signed him for four years he shared digs with Colin Milburn and though he progressed less spectacularly than his former Durham colleague , Scott proved an able bowler . |
| 19 | Police followed him for six miles on the A1 near Dishforth at speeds of up to 96mph through heavy rain . |
| 20 | Because Boo had not been seen for so long by Maycomb , he was turned into a scapegoat by the adults who blamed him for any thing and every thing that went wrong , and the children thought of him as a terrible monster with blood dripping from his mouth who ate squirrels . |
| 21 | Taking into account Ferguson 's health , age , and the fact he had not previously been in prison , he jailed him for 18 months . |
| 22 | Judge Geoffrey Kilfoil ordered his arrest and jailed him for 14 days for contempt of court . |
| 23 | Judge Lawrence Verney jailed him for seven years foreach of the rapes and four years for each of the indecent assaults , all to run concurrently . |
| 24 | Judge William Hannah jailed him for 12 months and disqualified him from driving for six months . |
| 25 | Mr Copeland also jailed him for three months for possessing Ecstasy , three months for possessing amphetamines , six months for having Ecstasy with intent to supply and three months for having amphetamines with intent to supply . |
| 26 | But it is sobering to reflect that Bowes could devote so much time and energy to assembling his huge collections , a task that preoccupied him for many years , without apparently caring that a main source of his wealth , coal , was blighting lives and blighting the countryside . |
| 27 | Fukase 's series RAVENS preoccupied him for ten years , beginning with a chance photograph of a flock of crows on his native Hokkaido in 1975 and culminating in the publication of 62 photographs in 1986 . |
| 28 | I usually let him out of the pram but last week I lost him for five minutes in Tesco , ’ she said . |
| 29 | The judge , Mr Justice French , gaoled him for eight years . |
| 30 | She watched him for several moments , then looked about the large dining-room , trying to fathom the reason for his actions . |