Example sentences of "had [verb] him for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He filled the kettle and set it on the hob , then went through to the front room , closed the shutters , and tried radioing on the frequency Caspar had given him for the US Embassy in Belpan City . |
| 2 | At the slow , jerking speed of city traffic at night , he drove toward the address that Ashdown had given him for the rendezvous . |
| 3 | It was also believed that Menelik visited his father Solomon , and on his departure contrived to substitute a copy of the Ark of the Covenant that his father had given him for the original , which he then carried off to Aksum . |
| 4 | He was reminded of the statements of the stableman who had joined him for a drink at the Bull , situated at the end of Cross Street , and of the café owner where he had stopped for a fried breakfast . |
| 5 | After it had trapped him for the third time , he ordered all the cages to be thrown into the sea . |
| 6 | The Guardian of Jan. 9 , for example , reported that Chinese Communist Party ( CCP ) documents circulated internally in late December had been critical of Gorbachev and had blamed him for the " subversion " of socialism in Eastern Europe . |
| 7 | His father had named him for the Mughal Babur , a conqueror , a hard drinking , hard riding Turk who loved poetry , laughter and gardens . |
| 8 | ‘ 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Palottino had no answer to that , any more than Zen himself , though the question had tormented him for the whole drive back to Perugia . |
| 11 | And he looks a lot better for the change , although I have to tell you that by the time I had grilled him for an hour and tested him out on the snooker table I did notice that he reached for a cigarette . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | She allowed her fingers to roam , her eyes tightly shut , her mind vividly picturing him as she had seen him for the very first time . |
| 14 | They missed out on Shearer , who joined Kenny Dalglish at Ewood Park after Ferguson had tracked him for a year . |
| 15 | The first reference is a friendly one : ‘ Lord Goodman had always been very generous with his legal advice to Labour MPs , including me , and Harold Wilson had used him for a number of assignments , including an exploratory visit with Sir Max Aitken to Ian Smith in August 1968 on the possibilities of a settlement . |
| 16 | I had invited him for a meal , and he left around midnight . ’ |
| 17 | Producer-director Arne Glimcher had tapped him for the role after catching his performance in Pedro Almodóvar 's Matador , in which he plays a melancholic bullfighter wannabe who faints at the sight of blood and gets dizzy watching clouds . |
| 18 | Subconsciously he must have been expecting something like this : his first reaction was not surprise but an intensification of the dull misery which had enveloped him for the last 24 hours . |
| 19 | I had known him for a number of years . |
| 20 | The incident with the muntjac doe had distracted him for a while but gradually the sense of exultation in his deeds of the previous evening returned and blotted everything else from his mind . |
| 21 | According to Wainfleet Ruby had asked him for a photograph of the escaped prisoner from the newspaper 's files , passed her hands over it and discovered that Sniffy was in Epping Forest . |
| 22 | On that third morning , though , it had been Haynes who led out the home team , since Richards was in the press box breathing fire at Daily Express journalist James Lawton who had asked him for an explanation of the V-sign he had given to his own crowd . |
| 23 | It had worried him for a moment , he had n't been quite sure what she meant , but then he reckoned she was referring to the troubles . |
| 24 | A 13-month-old London boy drowned when he fell off a ‘ topple-proof ’ bath chair while his mother had left him for a few moments . |
| 25 | Bryan Bland is a ‘ well-known bird watcher ’ ; we ( the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds Leicester Group ) had borrowed him for the two days of a winter weekend . |
| 26 | Owen had taken him for a Sudani because his face was black . |
| 27 | It was very much a revenge match for White — Spijkers had beaten him for a bronze in the Seoul Olympics , though then White was injured . |
| 28 | When they ignore the whole idea of pandering to a European market , they can be quite good , as in Tarkovsky 's Italian-funded productions , where he just carried on making the same film that had obsessed him for the past 30 years , only a bit more slowly . |
| 29 | She had lost him for a while , at the party , but she 'd already been too drunk to worry . |
| 30 | In fact , Dustin was not unknown to Nichols , who had seen him in Journey of the Fifth Horse and had auditioned him for the Broadway musical The Apple Tree . |