Example sentences of "[vb past] him for [art] [noun sg] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jimmy cursed him for a fool and thanked him for standing aside . |
| 2 | The postman thanked him for the warning and drove back to Mount Carmel . |
| 3 | Jack , by then very famous , called him for a chat and asked if he needed anything . |
| 4 | A girl from one of the other teams — for all of us had assembled by now — asked him for the time and briefly discussed the weather with him and when , after about 15 minutes , he struck off purposefully around a nearby playing field , he had a tail of 14 people — the entire membership of all four spy teams — determined not to lose their quarry . |
| 5 | Roland took him for a caricature and bristled vestigially with class irritation . |
| 6 | Well we had him for the weekend and er looking back on the weekend we were reasonably impressed with the man and his wife . |