Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] him for [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | It has now been decided to write to Rangers asking for their views on statements attributed to the three men since Ferguson 's club dropped him for disciplinary reasons , after which it came to light that Murray had spoken to United 's manager/chairman , Jim Mclean , about buying the Scotland internationalist . |
2 | Northamptonshire signed him for four years he shared digs with Colin Milburn and though he progressed less spectacularly than his former Durham colleague , Scott proved an able bowler . |
3 | Doubts about the genuineness of his own faith troubled him for many years . |
4 | Judge Lawrence Verney jailed him for seven years foreach of the rapes and four years for each of the indecent assaults , all to run concurrently . |
5 | Fukase 's series RAVENS preoccupied him for ten years , beginning with a chance photograph of a flock of crows on his native Hokkaido in 1975 and culminating in the publication of 62 photographs in 1986 . |
6 | Guilt besieged him for many years . |
7 | One of his wins had qualified him for the National so when he came up for sale at Doncaster , Kempton secured him for 2,000 guineas on behalf of two of his owners who were keen to have a runner in the race . |
8 | Judge William Hannah jailed him for 12 months and disqualified him from driving for six months . |
9 | Livingston , who has vowed to clear his name after British athletics chiefs banned him for four years for drugs cheating , said : ‘ I am being imprisoned for something I have n't done . |
10 | Last year the Home Secretary reappointed him for five years : the first of the BBC 's 17 chairmen since incorporation in 1927 to receive a second full term . |
11 | Police followed him for six miles on the A1 near Dishforth at speeds of up to 96mph through heavy rain . |
12 | Magistrates bailed him for eight weeks on conditions which included not venturing out alone from the Leahurst residential home for the mentally disturbed . |