Example sentences of "[noun sg] have [verb] him for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1914 he became a master at Eton College , where he remained during World War I , a heart murmur having disqualified him for military service . |
| 2 | His passionate compression , luxuriant sound , and eclectic mixture of Anglo-Saxon , Latinate , and Celtic diction have made him for many readers both the greatest of Victorians and the first of the moderns . |
| 3 | In the 1920s , after the British literary establishment had neglected him for forty years , Machen attracted a coterie of admirers in the United States . |
| 4 | GULF War hero Paul Butler , who saw two pals killed in the American ‘ friendly fire ’ attack , went berserk when he heard his wife had left him for another man . |
| 5 | Nothing in his many years ' service had prepared him for this sort of situation . |
| 6 | He fixed his mind on a rule his father had given him for public speaking : Get a vague plan and then say anything that comes into your head . |
| 7 | Delaunay felt that the basis of his art was ‘ simultaneous ’ contrasts of colour , a concept which he adopted from Chevreul , whose colour theory had interested him for some time . |
| 8 | But he will have to wait to get into the action — an ankle injury has sidelined him for two weeks . |
| 9 | His mother had nagged him for some time about entering his lodger 's room . |