Example sentences of "[verb] him for [adj] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | And she scolded him for frightening children Adam , six , Louise , four , and two-year-old Carl . |
| 2 | More than a hundred victims have now approached him for legal advice and doctors are still seeing new cases six weeks after chryptosporidium was first identified in the Farmoor reservoir . |
| 3 | Gusev deduced that Volkov was in love with a woman who 'd been sent to entrap him for political purposes , so Gusev deduced . |
| 4 | He grew a real beard , which would incommode him for other parts ; he thought , behaved , responded Learwise , in as short-sighted a fashion as that monarch would have done , having handed on his characteristics to his youngest daughter . |
| 5 | It has now been decided to write to Rangers asking for their views on statements attributed to the three men since Ferguson 's club dropped him for disciplinary reasons , after which it came to light that Murray had spoken to United 's manager/chairman , Jim Mclean , about buying the Scotland internationalist . |
| 6 | Not content with damning Churchill for causing the Dardanelles disaster , attempting to stifle Bolshevism at birth , returning to the Gold Standard and trying to hold on to India , John Charmley faults him for opposing appeasement . |
| 7 | In fact it might just finish him for good ! ’ |
| 8 | From 1899 to 1902 he encouraged young Labour church workers to visit him for informal religious training . |
| 9 | Stephane Grappelli , the renowned jazz violinist , employed English agents who booked him for certain concerts . |
| 10 | Whatever mysterious spirit had unlocked the verse , it had freed him for other human satisfactions , for love ; or was it the other way around ? |
| 11 | So that one day when they are sitting on their fat butts in frankfurt or Langley and some poor guy 's written seven point nine two centimetre automatic rifle instead of seven point nine two millimetre , they wo n't want to fire him for bad writing . |
| 12 | She patiently gammed him for long minutes ; fondling his testicles with one hand , and exploring the cleft of his arse with the other . |
| 13 | In 1914 he became a master at Eton College , where he remained during World War I , a heart murmur having disqualified him for military service . |
| 14 | Sedgemore has improved so much since entering top grade rugby that club coach Alex Evans is tipping him for international honours . |
| 15 | In November 1959 he found himself back in Montreal , ‘ to renew his neurotic affiliations ’ as he was to repeat endlessly to journalists ; meeting his friends and family , sometimes bumping into his uncles who would take him for expensive meals at top restaurants — such as the Ritz — and hotels ; and generally awakening and reawakening those impulses and memories which would fire his imagination and energise his mind for months to come . |
| 16 | The patient had first become aware of the symptoms six weeks after a hakim had started treating him for atopic eczema . |
| 17 | The popularity of Taylor 's devotional books , his sufferings for the Church , his piety , engaging manner , and contacts in influential Royalist circles might have been expected to qualify him for high preferment in the restored Church in 1660 . |
| 18 | ‘ To buy a player of Kevin 's experience would cost a fortune but we got him for free . |
| 19 | However , since the diagnosis of CMV retinitis was an AIDS-defining illness and therefore qualified him for permanent disability and other benefits , he had concealed this fact from those involved in his care . |
| 20 | Well , a bit of tough training will prepare him for borstal if nothing else . |
| 21 | Then slowly her sense of humour began to reassert itself and she was able to laugh , remembering the look of amazement on his handsome , hawklike face when she 'd threatened to report him for sexual harassment . |
| 22 | He fixed his mind on a rule his father had given him for public speaking : Get a vague plan and then say anything that comes into your head . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | We asked him for general news . |
| 25 | ‘ I could n't tell him for sure , but he 's been taking Vulcan out most days . |
| 26 | ‘ Ask him for general information on a Mr and Mrs Young who own a horse called Sparrowgrass . ’ |
| 27 | It was addressed to the retired rector of Alderly , admonishing him for past ingratitudes — for not returning a book , for not calling at the Grange when he knew the Springetts to be there . |
| 28 | I took him for dead , |
| 29 | At first Gaskell supported Deacon 's plans to manufacture alkali by the new Solvay process , but later persuaded him for financial reasons to employ the older Leblanc method . |
| 30 | Because you 'd lose him for sure then . |