Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] him for his [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I thanked him for his cheering thought and walked over to interrupt Barry who was involved with a small group of well-heeled tourists at the far end of the bar . |
| 2 | I loved him for his special attention towards me ; he made me feel important — if only to him . |
| 3 | It was Alan 's wife who entered him for his first rally and he enjoyed it so much he decided to continue . |
| 4 | No one in Bristol — certainly not Big Mal , now 65 — was letting on exactly who hired him for his latest battle against relegation . |
| 5 | For Binks was a plant collector , sending his finds to several eminent gentlemen in the Darlington area who paid him for his keen eyes and diligent legwork . |
| 6 | Against her creamy paleness his hand was a thin brown intruder , and he knew there were times when she despised him for his swarthy colouring . |
| 7 | One of his red-letter days was the time we took him for his first ride in our newly acquired Rolls-Royce . |