Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] him for the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When that news hits him , the narrator seems to crumble , even though a premonitory dream the night before has readied him for the shock . |
| 2 | Marco has been brought up by his rather in a way designed to fit him for the future . |
| 3 | If he has become a hero to the Muslim masses outside , and probably to a lot of Third World non-Muslims , it is not on his merits , but because the United States , with gratuitous and superfluous aid from Britain , has cast him for the part . |
| 4 | Charlotte only wants to marry him for the house and comforts he can provide her later in life . |
| 5 | Perhaps if I 'd entered him for the Champion Hurdle , he might have sold . |
| 6 | We decided to hire him for the day , and negotiated a price . |
| 7 | Nothing in his IBM Corp background could have prepared him for the kind of speech he gave — in fact had to give , if Taligent is to be seen as the answer to the world 's ills . |
| 8 | Nothing however could have prepared him for the drama to come . |
| 9 | They met at Cambridge when she — ‘ a lovely young woman with dark brown hair and blue eyes ’ — went to interview him for the university newspaper . |
| 10 | They were concerned when his mother did not arrive to deliver him for the day yesterday . |
| 11 | They were concerned when his mother did not arrive to deliver him for the day yesterday . |
| 12 | Erm , I mean , he wrote a lot , I saw him church on Sunday and I did thank him for the letter |
| 13 | After playing the gregarious cocaine fiend , Tad Allagash , in Bright Lights , Big City with his friend Michael J Fox ( who is rumoured to have suggested him for the role ) , he began researching his part in Young Guns . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Deputy 's free and I 've booked him for the launch |
| 16 | Palottino had no answer to that , any more than Zen himself , though the question had tormented him for the whole drive back to Perugia . |
| 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 | Already in The Black Riders , though , he has begun to grow up and Violet Needham has begun to equip him for the role of teacher and mentor even as he is still meeting the challenge of danger with the eager opportunism of a boy . |
| 19 | Braden did n't even offer to pay him for the ticket . |
| 20 | 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 . |