Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] him for the [noun] " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | Perhaps if I 'd entered him for the Champion Hurdle , he might have sold . |
| 4 | ‘ I could have forgiven him for the debts he piled up , but the lies , having another woman — I can never forgive that , ’ Jean says . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Nothing however could have prepared him for the drama to come . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | At the slow , jerking speed of city traffic at night , he drove toward the address that Ashdown had given him for the rendezvous . |
| 11 | Deputy 's free and I 've booked him for the launch |
| 12 | Palottino had no answer to that , any more than Zen himself , though the question had tormented him for the whole drive back to Perugia . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |