Example sentences of "[verb] him for [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Finally she agreed to meet him for lunch the following week , and they agreed a time and a place . |
| 2 | He did not qualify him for income support , he supported him on to the back of his ass , he took him to the inn . |
| 3 | John Smith realised an angling ambition when he boated a fine 39lb tope which will qualify him for membership of the Tope Angling Club . |
| 4 | Now that MPs have committed him for trial for allegedly ordering telephone-tapping and accepting bribes , he describes the three months of coalition government as ‘ a lamentable political parenthesis ’ . |
| 5 | The story I 've got is that he was forced out because Ron Barron was threatening to prosecute him for fraud . ’ |
| 6 | And he said the they were pressing him for completion that very minute . |
| 7 | She had forced him to live against the grain of his own nature which was weak and pleasure-loving and stubborn with it , so that when she beat him for laziness or lying , he became more determinedly idle and sullen . |
| 8 | BANKRUPT former publican Maurice Siddle was contemplating suicide hours before police stopped him for drink driving on Christmas Day , a court heard . |
| 9 | BANKRUPT former publican Maurice Siddle was contemplating suicide before police stopped him for drink-driving on Christmas Day , a court heard . |
| 10 | But even though Lewis used him for target practice with heavy right crosses and upper-cuts , he could not floor the durable American , who took a standing eight count early in the fourth round . |
| 11 | Later she said : ‘ I think I ate him for breakfast . |
| 12 | Within a few months , in late 1954 , the Senate censured him and although Nixon , his loyal backer in the past , considerately struck out the word Censure from the resolution , which condemned him for conduct unbecoming to the Senate , he was finished in Washington . |
| 13 | I sat eating my sandwiches in a grumpy sulk at the top of a mountain recently , while the pack of men surrounding a paraglider prepared him for take-off . |
| 14 | He says he 's now firm friends with the doctors who prepared him for freedom . |
| 15 | Geoffrey Fisher prepared him for confirmation . |
| 16 | Many footballers have matched him for decadence but few have lived out their decline quite as publicly as Slim Jim . |
| 17 | Unfortunately it never really delivered on the tantalising opening mention of Lee 's behind-the-scenes ‘ control ’ of black culture in NY and the unwillingness of critics to publicly diss him for fear of being shut out of the game . |
| 18 | After hearing the evidence the justices announced that they found him guilty , but on hearing of his previous convictions they decided that they would not deal with the case and committed him for trial to quarter sessions . |
| 19 | It seemed that his final revelation had soothed him , prepared him for death . |
| 20 | Their goalkeeper , Neville Southall , was preparing to clear the ball upfield and making no haste about it when the referee , George Tyson , booked him for time-wasting and awarded Forest the indirect free-kick which was to decide the match . |
| 21 | So Schaffer sat with a stack of paperback books from Hamilton 's corner rack , and occasionally tried to catch Hennessy to pump him for information . |
| 22 | After the matinée , she had met him for tea , and he had held her hand , and looked soulful , and told her how innocent she was and how easy it would be to fall in love with her , but how he must n't , he could n't , because he would be leaving and it would n't be fair to her , and anyway , he had his career to think of , etc . |
| 23 | His background , therefore , and some aspects of his personality , seemed to fit him for government . |
| 24 | By Thursday evening , errors and ommissions underwriters are due to remit £116 million to solicitor Richards Butler under the settlement reached last month between underwriter Richard Outhwaite and names suing him for negligence over £260 million of losses . |
| 25 | Challenging the expert by suing him for negligence , where it is the expert , rather than the decision which is being challenged , is dealt with in Chapter 14 . |
| 26 | I even meet him for dinner from time to time . |
| 27 | Stephen was talking to a tall , elegantly dressed woman , who looked younger than she actually was , and her much older husband when she joined him for lunch in the beach bar . |
| 28 | I 've got him for English . |
| 29 | I 've got him for drama . |
| 30 | When at the end his brothers poured out their guilt and begged him for forgiveness , he replied with the words , ‘ Fear not , for am I in the place of God ? ’ |