Example sentences of "[pron] be [adv] [verb] him for " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am not proposing him for Moderator , but I am pressing his case . |
| 2 | And indeed it was from this time that he began to suffer the kind of serious ill health which was regularly to affect him for the rest of his life . |
| 3 | Well , what is a man to do , deprived at a stroke of his habitual daily employment for forty years and living for the first time with his widowed younger sister who is always surveying him for signs of disorder , be they physical , emotional or sartorial , and nagging him about unpunctuality for meals . |
| 4 | She tossed her head , aware she was n't fooling him for a minute . |
| 5 | Like if I interviewed Johnny Thunders , it was n't to meet him for the first time , it was to try to save his career . ’ |