Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] he for the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps if I 'd entered him for the Champion Hurdle , he might have sold . |
| 2 | We decided to hire him for the day , and negotiated a price . |
| 3 | They met at Cambridge when she — ‘ a lovely young woman with dark brown hair and blue eyes ’ — went to interview him for the university newspaper . |
| 4 | Erm , I mean , he wrote a lot , I saw him church on Sunday and I did thank him for the letter |
| 5 | It was also believed that Menelik visited his father Solomon , and on his departure contrived to substitute a copy of the Ark of the Covenant that his father had given him for the original , which he then carried off to Aksum . |
| 6 | Palottino had no answer to that , any more than Zen himself , though the question had tormented him for the whole drive back to Perugia . |
| 7 | Producer-director Arne Glimcher had tapped him for the role after catching his performance in Pedro Almodóvar 's Matador , in which he plays a melancholic bullfighter wannabe who faints at the sight of blood and gets dizzy watching clouds . |
| 8 | In fact , Dustin was not unknown to Nichols , who had seen him in Journey of the Fifth Horse and had auditioned him for the Broadway musical The Apple Tree . |