Example sentences of "have [verb] he for [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 When that news hits him , the narrator seems to crumble , even though a premonitory dream the night before has readied him for the shock .
2 If he has become a hero to the Muslim masses outside , and probably to a lot of Third World non-Muslims , it is not on his merits , but because the United States , with gratuitous and superfluous aid from Britain , has cast him for the part .
3 Just turned forty , Frank is married to his job , his wife has left him for a colleague , and when he encounters the sexually predatory Helen ( Ellen Barkin ) he breaks one of the first rules in the book by falling for a suspect .
4 ‘ I 'd heard him for a bit by then .
5 Perhaps if I 'd entered him for the Champion Hurdle , he might have sold .
6 Bonanza Boy , one of my old favourites , has been a remarkable horse over the years and I am a touch sad in having to desert him for a horse I consider to have a better chance .
7 Nothing in his IBM Corp background could have prepared him for the kind of speech he gave — in fact had to give , if Taligent is to be seen as the answer to the world 's ills .
8 Nothing however could have prepared him for the drama to come .
9 If only conventions were not so rigid she could easily have had him for a lodger .
10 In his brown canvas boots , faded blue trousers , checked shirt and frayed cap , one might have mistaken him for a man of no consequence instead of a senior member of local government .
11 I said I may have to hurt him for a remark like that .
12 Of relics of ‘ Our Henry 's ’ birth , the chateau of Pau keeps a single , peculiar example : the large turtle-shell supposed to have served him for a cradle , once his grandfather had christened him by rubbing his lips with a clove of garlic and a dab of Jurançon wine .
13 After playing the gregarious cocaine fiend , Tad Allagash , in Bright Lights , Big City with his friend Michael J Fox ( who is rumoured to have suggested him for the role ) , he began researching his part in Young Guns .
14 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 .
15 He was reminded of the statements of the stableman who had joined him for a drink at the Bull , situated at the end of Cross Street , and of the café owner where he had stopped for a fried breakfast .
16 Deputy 's free and I 've booked him for the launch
17 Palottino had no answer to that , any more than Zen himself , though the question had tormented him for the whole drive back to Perugia .
18 And he looks a lot better for the change , although I have to tell you that by the time I had grilled him for an hour and tested him out on the snooker table I did notice that he reached for a cigarette .
19 They missed out on Shearer , who joined Kenny Dalglish at Ewood Park after Ferguson had tracked him for a year .
20 The first reference is a friendly one : ‘ Lord Goodman had always been very generous with his legal advice to Labour MPs , including me , and Harold Wilson had used him for a number of assignments , including an exploratory visit with Sir Max Aitken to Ian Smith in August 1968 on the possibilities of a settlement .
21 I had invited him for a meal , and he left around midnight . ’
22 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 .
23 I had known him for a number of years .
24 The incident with the muntjac doe had distracted him for a while but gradually the sense of exultation in his deeds of the previous evening returned and blotted everything else from his mind .
25 According to Wainfleet Ruby had asked him for a photograph of the escaped prisoner from the newspaper 's files , passed her hands over it and discovered that Sniffy was in Epping Forest .
26 On that third morning , though , it had been Haynes who led out the home team , since Richards was in the press box breathing fire at Daily Express journalist James Lawton who had asked him for an explanation of the V-sign he had given to his own crowd .
27 It had worried him for a moment , he had n't been quite sure what she meant , but then he reckoned she was referring to the troubles .
28 Owen had taken him for a Sudani because his face was black .
29 It was very much a revenge match for White — Spijkers had beaten him for a bronze in the Seoul Olympics , though then White was injured .
30 She had lost him for a while , at the party , but she 'd already been too drunk to worry .
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