Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] him for " 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 | Even so , striking on or soon after January 15th would help Mr Bush underline , for the benefit of critics at home and abroad , the clear legal authority the UN has given him for military action . |
| 3 | ‘ I mean — Mary has forgiven him for what happened . |
| 4 | Pieda , a powerful economic group , has attacked him for his crippling levy on whisky and says the excise tax policy on the famous tipple is ‘ against the national interest and discriminates against one of the UK 's top five exporters ’ . |
| 5 | But he will have to wait to get into the action — an ankle injury has sidelined him for two weeks . |
| 6 | But Marwood refuses to take issue with Bassett and , instead , has thanked him for furthering his management ambitions . |
| 7 | The heroic all-rounder visited a specialist in London yesterday about a shoulder injury that has dogged him for some weeks . |
| 8 | The ‘ fine boy ’ with the grim destiny is Thomas Fox , a boy of fifteen whose father , a small farmer , has entrusted him for the first time with a flock of sheep for Portsmouth market . |
| 9 | ‘ Maverick limey has negotiated the hell-fire of the Brain and the almighty trail-boss Midwinter has summoned him for a special assignment . ’ |
| 10 | His friend Razumikhin , a truthful witness , has known him for eighteen months . |
| 11 | K has literally just rung over the moon that I had fixed this as her mother is very fond of David and has known him for years — and it is fitting that widow of first Prof of CEGS ( as above ) be included — her dad built up the department enormously and I knew him through European seminars etc via Law Society with and others including who is a Heriot Row neighbour . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The £6 million Juventus player has finally been forced to accept that the cartilage damage which has troubled him for several weeks requires surgery . |
| 14 | The clever Ephron has taken him for a very long ride indeed . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | ‘ I 'd heard him for a bit by then . |
| 17 | He was buoyant today , but also edgy and more authoritative than I 'd seen him for ages , when mostly he 'd been gloomy and sulky . |
| 18 | Imagine , she 'd thanked him for telling her Rob was missing ! |
| 19 | Perhaps if I 'd entered him for the Champion Hurdle , he might have sold . |
| 20 | They 'd followed him for years when he was politically active . |
| 21 | It was about a wife who 'd cheated on her husband , she 'd left him for his best friend , and now the man was on the road trying to mend his broken heart . |
| 22 | She 'd spotted him for the first time three weekends ago when she 'd walked out on to the nightclub stage to perform her warm-up spot for the star turn of the evening . |
| 23 | She 'd fancied him for ages and when he asked her out she managed to keep her cool even though she felt faint . |
| 24 | I 'd loved him for as long as I could remember . |
| 25 | ‘ You must have hated him for what he did . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ I could have forgiven him for the debts he piled up , but the lies , having another woman — I can never forgive that , ’ Jean says . |
| 27 | 30–8–1856 John Campbell , publichouse keeper , was struck off the Communion Roll the authorities having fined him for " keeping his house open at unreasonable hours . " |
| 28 | Nobody could have blamed him for trying it on , could they ? |
| 29 | Olazabal should have emulated him for in the afternoon he proceeded to miss a string of short putts . |
| 30 | 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 . |