Example sentences of "the [noun] [pers pn] [verb] he for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nigel is by no means the fool she took him for . |
| 2 | He spoke bitterly of the way she left him for another man , a student , when she was 16 then humiliated him by giving intimate details of their affair to the press . |
| 3 | Play Bodin in the position you bought him for and show off our defence that otherwise will leak goals like two seasons ago . |
| 4 | Years later , she acknowledged the debt she owed him for those early lessons in self-determination . |
| 5 | One of his red-letter days was the time we took him for his first ride in our newly acquired Rolls-Royce . |