Example sentences of "[pers pn] [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 | ‘ He feels as if you played him for a fool . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | ‘ I 'll be working like a Trojan for the next twelve weeks , ’ Lisa smiled back as she thanked him for the coffee . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | She watched him for a while , feeling superfluous . |
| 17 | She watched him for a moment . |
| 18 | She watched him for a moment , wishing she did n't feel so defensive every time he broached the subject of Arnie . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | She despised him for an affair that had begun and ended thirty years before . |
| 21 | We took him for an X-ray . |
| 22 | Well we had him for the weekend and er looking back on the weekend we were reasonably impressed with the man and his wife . |
| 23 | They asked him for a swimming pool and a better playground , but he was n't making any promises . |
| 24 | They influenced him for a lifetime , though he would sometimes grump , ‘ I write like a copper , dun I ? ’ |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |