Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] he for a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One afternoon I summoned up my courage and as casually as I could I invited him for a drink after work that evening . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | I cursed him for a fool . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ 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 . |
| 6 | 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 |
| 7 | I teased him for a bit that I did n't get it , it went for so much . |
| 8 | ‘ He feels as if you played him for a fool . |
| 9 | She watched him for a while , feeling superfluous . |
| 10 | She watched him for a moment . |
| 11 | She watched him for a moment , wishing she did n't feel so defensive every time he broached the subject of Arnie . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Prince Charles rang her every day , suggesting she join him for a walk or a barbecue . |
| 14 | Did you ask him for a drink ? ’ |
| 15 | We want him for a month on loan to give him a proper chance . ’ |
| 16 | They asked him for a swimming pool and a better playground , but he was n't making any promises . |
| 17 | The pub they used to have was patronized by shooting parties in the grouse season and one big businessman was so impressed by Grandad that he offered to take him back with him to train him for a position in his firm . |
| 18 | They influenced him for a lifetime , though he would sometimes grump , ‘ I write like a copper , dun I ? ’ |
| 19 | It amused him for a moment to speculate about the others , if they too had seen the paragraph and whether they had been astonished and afraid . |
| 20 | In the second play , Audience , Ferdinand is called in by the head maltster , played by Freddie Jones , who insists that he joins him for a drink and a chat . |
| 21 | It lifted him for a moment before it threw him down , so that for a second he saw what he wanted : that the sea had already overrun the beach and the rocks and the shingle and was advancing like a black wall rimmed with white over the slipways and grasslands of Orphir . |
| 22 | Charlie , is on his last legs , has been for years and , might as well have him put down , as that Nick keep saying , I think I 'll have to have him put down he , when he takes him for a walk he collapses . |
| 23 | Or , like he , if the little girl 's riding him , he always goes with her then as well , but even if the girl 's not on him , he takes him for a walk like a big dog so I mean , they 're lovely people , you could n't wish to have him with nicer people , erm , you know they are , they really are nice |
| 24 | They let us see him for a couple of minutes , and then they took us back to the prison . |