Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] him [adv] for [adj] " in BNC.

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1 A few weeks later the appointments committee asked him back for another interview ; only one other candidate remained on the shortlist .
2 PSYCHIATRIC reports are to be prepared on an unemployed woodcutter , Brian McGregor , whose forged football coupon lined him up for potential winnings of £3,826.47 billion .
3 The American woman watched him intently for several minutes , a commotion of half-forgotten sensations stirring within her , but if he had noticed her presence he gave no sign .
4 This time the hospital kept him in for several weeks and his condition deteriorated until the Sunday morning the phone rang at 6.30 am and the words ‘ We think you should come to the hospital as soon as you can . ’
5 By 1982 , the bank sent him off for four months ' study at Harvard Business School .
6 Maura loved him just for those words .
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