Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] him for [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I asked him for an instance of the difference between bookselling in Knightsbridge , London , and Union Street , Glasgow . |
| 2 | One afternoon I summoned up my courage and as casually as I could I invited him for a drink after work that evening . |
| 3 | He said our flight had been delayed and he 'd spent the time in the bar , and then added , rather unconvincingly , that some woman had insisted on ‘ plying Phaeton with liquor ’ as he put it , but there was a hollowness in the way he said it , and I do n't think either Gill or I believed him for a moment . |
| 4 | I cursed him for a fool . |
| 5 | Also , I blamed him for the way the bearers had deserted us . |
| 6 | For a moment , I took him for a vagrant , but then I saw he was just some local fellow enjoying the fresh air and summer sunshine , and saw no reason not to comply . |
| 7 | ‘ The first time I took him for a walk without a harness , he had a bit of a job to work that out as well . |
| 8 | In the next throne along lounged an elegant young man — summer business suit , Cal tan , thick , unlayered rug : I took him for an actor . |
| 9 | That is why I took him for an agent . |
| 10 | So erm , anyway I went back in to him , I kept going up and down , I left him for a while , but he does n't normally cry like that |
| 11 | I teased him for a bit that I did n't get it , it went for so much . |
| 12 | She remembers the time he was coming out of his flat in the midst of a rainstorm and was approached by a young man who asked him for the price of a meal . |
| 13 | One person whose eye he did catch was Patrick McGoohan , who recommended him for the role of cabin boy John Drake in Sir Francis Drake , a twenty-six-part adventure series made by ITC , whose boss , Lew Grade , was expert at making programmes that would sell to America ; one of them was Danger Man , starring McGoohan . |
| 14 | Taskopruzade 's grandfather , for example , studied under Molla Yegan , probably at some time alter 839/1435–6 , and it was Molla Yegan who recommended him for the post at Taskopru . |
| 15 | His seat is secure but he is also seeing the man who defeated him for the party leadership on the way to another victory for the Tories . |
| 16 | ‘ He feels as if you played him for a fool . |
| 17 | Managing the boat , he was in total command , and she admired him for the ease with which he wove between the countless busy craft , the pleasure boats , gondolas and the small and large ferries , his eyes constantly alert . |
| 18 | Sometimes he would be able to hire a premium artist , one who paid him for the privilege of playing . |
| 19 | ‘ I 'll be working like a Trojan for the next twelve weeks , ’ Lisa smiled back as she thanked him for the coffee . |
| 20 | Bond received threats of a ‘ warm welcome ’ from Burnley fans , who blamed him for the club 's decline after his season in charge eight years ago . |
| 21 | Carolyn knew that he was angry with her , for some reason which she could n't fathom , and that the more she pressed him for an explanation the more he clammed up over it . |
| 22 | She watched him for a while , feeling superfluous . |
| 23 | She watched him for a moment . |
| 24 | She watched him for a moment , wishing she did n't feel so defensive every time he broached the subject of Arnie . |
| 25 | Who selected him for the job , General ? ’ |
| 26 | These words were probably written after the capture and tonsuring of the king in 731 by unnamed opponents who kept him for a while in a monastic centre , somewhere presumably in Northumbria . |
| 27 | And then , because she did n't want to be saying goodbye to him any sooner than she had to , she took him for a wander through the main part of the Hall to see how the preparations were going . |
| 28 | One of the Tory MPs who supported him for the leadership of the party in 1990 told me that Michael Heseltine no longer had a political future . |
| 29 | She despised him for an affair that had begun and ended thirty years before . |
| 30 | We took him for an X-ray . |