Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] he for his [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed , the day before he had received Karl Rahner to thank him for his work for the Council . |
| 2 | The superintendent thanked him for his help and bade him goodnight but with a distracted air as though her attention were elsewhere . |
| 3 | It was agreed that a letter be sent to Mr Field thanking him for his work as Membership Secretary and on the Committee . |
| 4 | Ruth thanked him for his information and a few minutes later he raised his hat and walked away . |
| 5 | Mallachy , remembering the story they 'd concocted , gave Rory a piece of paper which contained ( he said ) a ‘ list of the addresses ’ , and Rory thanked him for his trouble . |
| 6 | Mrs McRobert said that Say continued to threaten to take his own life , blaming his wife 's decision to leave him for his predicament . |
| 7 | In France he was courted by publicity-conscious surfers ; people asked him for his autograph . |
| 8 | Only yesterday he received a letter from Mr Clinton thanking him for his support . |
| 9 | Thirty years after his death in 716 , Boniface criticized him for his disregard of the laws of the Church and for his personal immorality and depicted him as struck with madness while feasting with his nobles , so that he died ‘ gibbering with demons and cursing the priests of God ’ . |
| 10 | Graduates remember him for his concern for their personal and academic welfare and for his warmheartedness . |
| 11 | Then they led Linkworth to the hanging-shed to punish him for his crime . |
| 12 | The maid mocked him for his name , and so angry was the sprite that , as he left , fire irons were thrown through walls , dogs howled , doors slammed and all the household fires were extinguished forever . |
| 13 | Beaten into second place by his team-mate Rene Arnoux in the 1982 French Grand Prix , he pulled into a service station on his way home only for the attendant to mistake him for his rival . |
| 14 | God had given his Spirit to his anointed king in order to equip him for his leadership of the people . |
| 15 | At Thanksgiving 1985 , Bush sent North a postcard thanking him for his work ‘ with the hostage thing and in Central America ’ and exhorting him to get some turkey ; North read it out at his trial four years later as evidence of approval , but it was all delightfully vague . |