Example sentences of "[vb pp] him for " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Then since you accept what I say , madam — ’ interposed the cardinal with a sense of timing that suggested the protector had not nominated him for the task solely on account of his venerability ‘ — might I urge you to give the prince into my custody ! ’ |
| 2 | Now that MPs have committed him for trial for allegedly ordering telephone-tapping and accepting bribes , he describes the three months of coalition government as ‘ a lamentable political parenthesis ’ . |
| 3 | This predicament forced him to examine his goals and to make one last push for the success which had eluded him for so long . |
| 4 | The girl who had interviewed him for Leaders of Mankind . |
| 5 | No sooner was Lydia 's wedding to Tobias over , than Bob Lamb had approached him for his permission to pay court to Martha , with a view to eventual marriage . |
| 6 | More than a hundred victims have now approached him for legal advice and doctors are still seeing new cases six weeks after chryptosporidium was first identified in the Farmoor reservoir . |
| 7 | Nobody could have blamed him for trying it on , could they ? |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Escobar announced last month that he was declaring war on the state and the government has since blamed him for a series of bomb blasts in Bogota and other cities which have killed more than 40 people . |
| 10 | That weeping was his weeping ; the grief that had overwhelmed him for so long . |
| 11 | Joshua Morris had not invited him to break bread in Clungunford , Clunbury , Clunton or Clun , but Ralph Grunte had booked him for his Warwickshire Tories ' annual dinner and dance . |
| 12 | Deputy 's free and I 've booked him for the launch |
| 13 | Pieda , a powerful economic group , has attacked him for his crippling levy on whisky and says the excise tax policy on the famous tipple is ‘ against the national interest and discriminates against one of the UK 's top five exporters ’ . |
| 14 | He cited a Daily Mail article , rather curiously signed Editor , which had attacked him for presiding over the disappearance of ‘ an immense fortune ’ left hint by his father , and had concluded : ‘ It is difficult to see how the leader of a party who has lost his own fortune can hope to restore those of anyone else , or his country . |
| 15 | After it had trapped him for the third time , he ordered all the cages to be thrown into the sea . |
| 16 | 30–8–1856 John Campbell , publichouse keeper , was struck off the Communion Roll the authorities having fined him for " keeping his house open at unreasonable hours . " |
| 17 | Olazabal should have emulated him for in the afternoon he proceeded to miss a string of short putts . |
| 18 | I remember it was he himself who put it most aptly one day when mother had scolded him for commencing work at home on a customer 's suit . |
| 19 | Palottino had no answer to that , any more than Zen himself , though the question had tormented him for the whole drive back to Perugia . |
| 20 | Quite plainly , having so recently finished the work that had absorbed him for almost two years , he was not yet back in the habit of eating lunch at a regular hour . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 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 | I 've sought him for years . |
| 24 | They missed out on Shearer , who joined Kenny Dalglish at Ewood Park after Ferguson had tracked him for a year . |
| 25 | Rauti replaced the much younger Gianfranco Fini who had narrowly defeated him for the post in December 1987 [ see p. 35989 ] . |
| 26 | Many footballers have matched him for decadence but few have lived out their decline quite as publicly as Slim Jim . |
| 27 | She had shot him for all the things he had done to her and her husband , shot him because , in the end , she still loved him , and it made his ultimate betrayal all the harder to bear . |
| 28 | But he will have to wait to get into the action — an ankle injury has sidelined him for two weeks . |
| 29 | He labours scornfully for this Simon Giles , faintly comforted by a corner in Classical studies which has been granted him for reasons to do with the firm 's image . |
| 30 | His education had not prepared him for this in any way . |