Example sentences of "him for [art] [noun sg] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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1 | Jimmy cursed him for a fool and thanked him for standing aside . |
2 | Jack , by then very famous , called him for a chat and asked if he needed anything . |
3 | Roland took him for a caricature and bristled vestigially with class irritation . |
4 | Not the clankings and gratings of the Zoo which lay off in the distance to his right , now obscured by the trees over which he had flown in the night , but the call of a thousand birds whose busyness and life shook his fears off him for a time and replaced them with a sense of wonder . |
5 | She looked at him for a moment and burst out laughing . |
6 | Martin looked at him for a moment and smiled softly at him as he said , ‘ I would , laddie , but you 'd better not ; I think your mother needs you tonight . |
7 | She despised him for an affair that had begun and ended thirty years before . |
8 | 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 . |
9 | The postman thanked him for the warning and drove back to Mount Carmel . |
10 | Charlotte only wants to marry him for the house and comforts he can provide her later in life . |
11 | City of London magistrates fined him for the refusal but ruled he could keep his licence . |