Example sentences of "of him for " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ She was going to have him all to herself for at least three years , probably more like five , and a part of him for ever … ’ . |
| 2 | Tonight she 'd seen the way to get rid of him for good . |
| 3 | He had gone in search of gold and glory and they thought the better of him for it ; even the composer of the ‘ New World Symphony ’ was careful to sound the horns of triumph . |
| 4 | He believed he had found a good humoured gentleman in Holland who would send him plants , but was critical of him for overheating his stoves . |
| 5 | Remember a couple of weeks ago when you were taking the piss out of him for being scruffy , you told him not to come in again unless he was wearing a tie . |
| 6 | He could have kept Maggie to warm his bed and no one would have thought the worse of him for it . |
| 7 | As she stood and contemplated the deep , rushing waters , she wondered whether she had the strength to push him in and be rid of him for ever . |
| 8 | She had wanted some way of freeing herself from Gareth Davis and his demands and now , with no effort on her part , she was free of him for ever . |
| 9 | The producer Jerome Hellman had seen Dustin in Eh ? and had thought of him for the part way back then . |
| 10 | ‘ The Holy Spirit have charge of him for all our sakes ! ’ |
| 11 | But Kirk 's reputation went ahead of him for a few years to come . |
| 12 | Though he knew the press would be sending a photographer to take a picture of him for the financial pages of the newspaper , he suspected that their main interest was in Hank . |
| 13 | It was an understood thing that Mr Joe , Sir , as he was now — and that was hard to take in — was still in shock , for he walked about like someone in a dream and would stand staring in front of him for minutes on end . |
| 14 | Why not go back and let Charlie get rid of him for me ? |
| 15 | He wondered what he had done to make his parents want to get rid of him for most of the summer holidays . |
| 16 | He was bad all through , that one , and they were good folk They wanted rid of him for good , and I think they were a bit afraid he might come back , and then how could they turn him out ? ’ |
| 17 | None the less in 1329 he did simple homage ( all that was asked of him for the moment ) at Amiens , following this up with liege homage in 1331 . |
| 18 | Whereupon I fell about in my chair at this with an effective simulacrum of sycophancy , then matadored the old charm around in front of him for a few minutes , and before you could say fundador Walt was on his knees begging me for the coup de grâce . |
| 19 | In 1988 he moved again , this time to Lotus , but he had to be content with watching the McLaren duo of Alain Prost and fellow Brazilian Ayrton Senna in front of him for most of the season . |
| 20 | He appeals from the order of the North Avon Magistrates ' Family Proceedings Court on 23 December 1991 when they made a secure accommodation order in respect of him for three months . |
| 21 | D' you know , in a way I feel as though I have to take care of him for her . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ Allocate a man to take care of him for the next few days until his tutor , T'ai Cho , joins him . ’ |
| 23 | That Aethelheard 's flight was not generally seen as discreditable is clear from Leo III 's subsequent praise of him for endangering his life against ‘ Julian the Apostate ’ , as the pope described Eadberht , but Alcuin gave Aethelheard no such credit and remained highly critical of him for allegedly neglecting his Christian duty and it is possible that in his absence the Kentish leaders were considering the election of another archbishop . |
| 24 | That Aethelheard 's flight was not generally seen as discreditable is clear from Leo III 's subsequent praise of him for endangering his life against ‘ Julian the Apostate ’ , as the pope described Eadberht , but Alcuin gave Aethelheard no such credit and remained highly critical of him for allegedly neglecting his Christian duty and it is possible that in his absence the Kentish leaders were considering the election of another archbishop . |
| 25 | When after a year he moved away to another job , she felt acute distress and thought continuously of him for many months . |
| 26 | She would have thought the better of him for it as well , Lugh knew he could be sure of that . |
| 27 | Indeed , as late as 1638 the lord deputy , Sir Thomas Wentworth ( later first Earl of Strafford , q.v. ) , was strongly critical of him for putting the interests of the Villiers family before those of the Crown , in connection with the Irish customs revenues . |
| 28 | When he 'd said he 'd seen Stephen at the funeral she 'd felt afraid of him for a moment . |
| 29 | The Minister for the Environment and Countryside is no longer here — I make no criticism of him for that — but I listened to his opening remarks , and I know that he will speak to colleagues in Brussels . |
| 30 | He could fly all day long and all night long if he wanted , but I wanted him to get 100 hours at night and I felt that despite his enthusiasm I would like to he shot of him for a period . |