Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] him for an [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 | In the next throne along lounged an elegant young man — summer business suit , Cal tan , thick , unlayered rug : I took him for an actor . |
| 3 | That is why I took him for an agent . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | She despised him for an affair that had begun and ended thirty years before . |
| 6 | We took him for an X-ray . |