Example sentences of "[vb infin] him for [verb] " in BNC.

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1 We do not condemn him for having being successful , but we do condemn a social security system which is prepared to help Mr Deaves indefinitely when other struggling families who do not meet the DSS 's criteria are thrown out of modest homes .
2 I 'll bollock him for sticking his rubbish in my cu cupboards .
3 The hospital staff would n't thank him for provoking another .
4 May I also thank him for agreeing to visit Rugby and Kenilworth ?
5 Just as she did n't take him for granted , she made sure he could n't take her for granted either .
6 I tried to tell him that I did n't blame him for deflowering me but he was n't listening .
7 He is put down by Gloucester for being illegitimate and ignored so one can not really blame him for seeking revenge against the wrong done to him and for his bitter character .
8 However , even if we can not blame him for murdering the other in his sleep , we might respect him more if he did put himself at a disadvantage by clinging to one of his last disintegrating scraps of morality .
9 Thomson 's son poured so much money into The Times in the vain effort to modernize it in the late 1970s that no one could blame him for wanting to sell it .
10 I went off him a lot when he made out he was really eager to get to Blackburn and ‘ only really wanted to play for one club ’ , but you ca n't really blame him for wanting to be filthy rich .
11 Under these circumstances not even Valiance could blame him for abandoning his quest .
12 I do n't blame him for falling for you , but do n't you go giving him a hard time just before the race !
13 Do n't blame him for washing it himself or the fairies will never come .
14 You could n't blame him for losing his cool . ’
15 Caernarfonshire captain Dave Wallace said Llandudno had not engaged Barnes as a professional and did not pay him for playing .
16 They 're gon na charge him for casting his .
17 ‘ How can you forgive him for leaving you ? ’ asked Meredith bluntly .
18 But some fans might not forgive him for leaving .
19 I 'll never forgive him for involving Silvia in all this .
20 I will never forgive him for letting her down .
21 Dick Crossman had been kept out of office or the expectation of it by both Attlee , who could not forgive him for resisting Bevin 's policy towards Palestine , and his successor .
22 You can forgive him for relaxing to a 69 .
23 Of course he should , you ought to just ask him for say a hundred , you know to buy a couple of packs of nappies and some cream and changing mat , a changing bag , you 'll want all that wo n't you ?
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