Example sentences of "[verb] him for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | GINA MORRIS joins him for a big breakfast . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The Welshman kicked the ball away and referee Dangaard dismissed him for a second bookable offence . |
| 4 | 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 . ’ |
| 5 | He 'll cry long and hard , and though you can soothe him for a few minutes at a time , hours can pass without you ever really silencing the cries . |
| 6 | But he says the payout ca n't begin to compensate him for the devastating effect the accident has had on his life . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | In all such cases the plaintiff is entitled to damages to compensate him for the lost benefit . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | " Oh , that 's you , Fiver , is it ? " said Bigwig , noticing him for the first time . |
| 13 | A furtive junior diplomat bowing and scraping his way out of the interview section of the Lefortovo , ogling the KGB man and thanking him for a fifteen-minute access to a prisoner for whom the key was now thrown far away . |
| 14 | After it had trapped him for the third time , he ordered all the cages to be thrown into the sea . |
| 15 | Prison officials , concerned about his poor health , referred him for a medical examination which confirmed widespread injuries , including marks around the wrist , apparently caused by the hanging , and burns ‘ possibly caused by electrical current . ’ |
| 16 | It was a nice face and , other things being equal , she would have responded to that first , she had been wanting to get to know him for a long time . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | To cover the fact that she had far too many feelings altogether , she ignored him for the first part of the morning . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | ‘ We do n't want you to be neglected , ’ I told him for the umptieth time . |
| 21 | ‘ Not today , thank you , ’ I told him for the umptieth time . |
| 22 | His father had named him for the Mughal Babur , a conqueror , a hard drinking , hard riding Turk who loved poetry , laughter and gardens . |
| 23 | ‘ You dropped him for the Prime Minister . ’ |
| 24 | But because it 's so authentic people often mistake him for a real policeman . |
| 25 | Relations between the Prime Minister and Nigel Lawson may still be strained ( she blames him for the present difficulties ) . |
| 26 | It was when I had n't seen him for a long time and I was all wound up . |
| 27 | His crooked smile was very much in evidence and Matey could have told her that since her arrival Dr Neil had been happier than she had seen him for a long time — there had been fewer backslidings towards the ‘ nasty whisky ’ since McAllister had appeared in his life to provide him with such rich amusement . |
| 28 | The big fella is more keyed up than I 've seen him for a long time and he is channelling all his energies into one final world cup fling . |
| 29 | After meeting him for the first time , Vincent thought that he must be wealthy . |
| 30 | 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 . |