Example sentences of "him [adv] for [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Serves him right for sucking up to them — being the Thinking Person 's Tory , and all that , eh ? |
| 2 | I 'm afraid I lost my temper and said if he 'd fallen foul of the IRA it bloody well served him right for supporting them . ’ |
| 3 | Serves him right for leaving it open . |
| 4 | Serves him right for biting off more than he could chew … but then , he 's always doing that . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ Serves him right for pigging out on egg and pickle sandwiches ! ’ |
| 6 | I admired him for his decision then , I admired him for not thinking being world champion was worth the risk , and I admire him still for maintaining a moral stance . |
| 7 | So far , the free world has liked him both for having been , and for having ceased to be , a communist of a sort , for the freedoms he seeks in matters of literary form , for the modern inventiveness and manipulation of the literary games he plays , games that none the less commemorate , as he acknowledges , Cervantes , Sterne and Diderot , and for the sexual games which he plays in an age when , as he once put it , sexuality has ceased to be taboo . |
| 8 | As you know , you had the Fifty Pounds from direct , and I have thanked him profusely for painting the sitting room walls ! |