Example sentences of "[pron] [modal v] [verb] him for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'll canter him for a bit , then wait till you come up for your turn . ’ |
| 2 | I was told I could see him for an hour but they got held up on the way and I was rushed through the visit . |
| 3 | I would ask him on authorisation from er the Assistant Chief Constable , I would ask him for a number of officers . |
| 4 | I shall ask him for the latest joke at the gates of heaven , . ’ |
| 5 | He would probably do the latter , and hurry through the change of clothes which would prepare him for the half-hour 's weight-training which he did between ten forty-five and eleven fifteen every Tuesday and Friday . |
| 6 | Mr Kinnock staggers under the additional handicap of having no ministerial experience which would equip him for the supreme office to which he aspires . |
| 7 | You ought to shop him for the income tax then |
| 8 | Previously he had had no worry about her possible infidelity or that she might leave him for a more effective performer . |
| 9 | She might despise him for the methods he used in business , but the fact remained that she loved him , and if there was anything she could do to protect him she would do it . |
| 10 | Later , she 'd take him for a walk , if her father did n't have time . |
| 11 | And if you could watch him for a while longer , you might discover just what he — a descendant of herd-living , company-loving , fast and flighty wild horses — feels about domestication . |
| 12 | One day soon she would see him for the last time . |
| 13 | She can keep him for the moment . |
| 14 | He 'll cry long and hard , and though you can soothe him for a few minutes at a time , hours can pass without you ever really silencing the cries . |
| 15 | We 'll leave him for a minute or two , then I 'll test his reflexes . ’ |
| 16 | As one policeman remarked after a gouger had been treated leniently by a judge , ‘ Right , we 'll get him for every wrong move he makes ’ ( FN 9/3/87 , p. 8 ) . |
| 17 | Old Peter was off to a STBO Club trip to Warwick Castle and besides , we 'd pay him for the two barrowloads we liberated . |
| 18 | ‘ I 'm almost sure he will not race again before , but we will enter him for the Hennessy Gold Cup in Ireland . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ But we can hold him for a while yet . |
| 20 | Even Sean 's obvious appreciation of her had served mainly to boost her confidence as to how she would look in that other man 's eyes , if by some absolute miracle they should meet him for a moment as they were driving through the grounds of Millfield House . |
| 21 | Mm , they 'll last him for a long , long time . |
| 22 | And even now , as he never has time off for spending the twenty-something quid a week they 'll dish him for the one-hundred-and-twenty-hour stint he puts in most weeks , he could just afford a wife and kid . |
| 23 | They told him to ignore it and to remain at home where they would join him for the evening . |
| 24 | Like if he was hitting something and he accidentally hit his ha his thumb or his finger he used to be in agony for I mean it used to hurt him for the rest of the day . |