Example sentences of "[verb] him for the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The other gentleman to whom I referred , Mr. Williams , was deported some little while ago , it being cheaper to deport him than prosecute him for the gross fraud that he has perpetrated against the United Kingdom . |
| 2 | Like if I interviewed Johnny Thunders , it was n't to meet him for the first time , it was to try to save his career . ’ |
| 3 | But he says the payout ca n't begin to compensate him for the devastating effect the accident has had on his life . |
| 4 | But in the former case the plaintiff will have a capital asset in his hands , and he is only entitled to recover damages to compensate him for the additional expenditure involved . |
| 5 | In all such cases the plaintiff is entitled to damages to compensate him for the lost benefit . |
| 6 | He told the rector at Boston that this was a person of unusual spiritual powers ; that how to train him for the whole Church was a responsibility ; that he was anxious that these abilities should not be confined to academic spheres . |
| 7 | It was in 1977 and ‘ 78 that McEvoy won this title before Ronan Rafferty beat him for the first ( and only ) time in nearly 30 matches for England . |
| 8 | Britain 's golden boy who lost his shine when newcomer David Grindley beat him for the final place in today 's 400 metres final is ready to take a year off from the track if it means he can beat the trouble . |
| 9 | " Oh , that 's you , Fiver , is it ? " said Bigwig , noticing him for the first time . |
| 10 | After it had trapped him for the third time , he ordered all the cages to be thrown into the sea . |
| 11 | He pounced on the Scottish selectors for not picking him for the 4 × 100 metres relay team for Edinburgh and , so it said in one of the tabloids , he was now ready to meet Linford Christie . |
| 12 | To cover the fact that she had far too many feelings altogether , she ignored him for the first part of the morning . |
| 13 | Fraulein Winkelmann told him for the Good God 's sake to get the papers fast , and Bruno went away and came back and pointed the Luger yet again . |
| 14 | ‘ We do n't want you to be neglected , ’ I told him for the umptieth time . |
| 15 | ‘ Not today , thank you , ’ I told him for the umptieth time . |
| 16 | His father had named him for the Mughal Babur , a conqueror , a hard drinking , hard riding Turk who loved poetry , laughter and gardens . |
| 17 | ‘ You dropped him for the Prime Minister . ’ |
| 18 | Relations between the Prime Minister and Nigel Lawson may still be strained ( she blames him for the present difficulties ) . |
| 19 | After meeting him for the first time , Vincent thought that he must be wealthy . |
| 20 | Talking to him is always like meeting him for the first time — he never comes out with the same old stuff and you can look forward to an interesting conversation . |
| 21 | She glanced up at him , feeling oddly shy , almost as though she were meeting him for the first time with no doubts , no mistrust , between them . |
| 22 | It was an experience which steeled him for the future task of having as many as a dozen major country houses under construction in any one year . |
| 23 | ‘ He claims to have met him for the first time at the Windorah ; it 's a bar frequented mainly by foreigners . |
| 24 | ‘ I have a proposition for you , ’ he said to Burkett and as he said it he weighed up his man as if he had met him for the first time . |
| 25 | Shannon had met him for the first time when he 'd arrived to film the pilot episode , and her dislike for the golden Adonis had been instant . |
| 26 | John McVurich , alledged diviner , being summond and not compared recommended him to the session of Kilarrow to processe him for the same . |
| 27 | Certainly Jenny did not see him for the first few evenings she was at Moorlake . |
| 28 | One day soon she would see him for the last time . |
| 29 | A crowd of eager customers would be awaiting his arrival outside the shops and attack him for the particular colour , size or style of dress they had been waiting for . |
| 30 | The German and American had crossed swords on and off the track throughout 1990 and it seemed as if Bradl needed Kocinski 's ‘ presence ’ to inspire him for the final showdown . |