Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] him for " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Carry on seeing him for the time being . |
| 2 | He would n't chase her after reading the letter she had left for him , politely thanking him for his hospitality and saying she was returning to Palma to complete her work before returning to England . |
| 3 | Escobar announced last month that he was declaring war on the state and the government has since blamed him for a series of bomb blasts in Bogota and other cities which have killed more than 40 people . |
| 4 | One of them rounded on him , grabbed him by the arm , but only asked him for his name and address . ’ |
| 5 | She only fought him for a moment or two . |
| 6 | I was reading a scum book at the weekend and in it Fergie was saying how Martin Edwards had cut Leeds down to 1 million for Eric the Fled by saying they only got him for 800k . |
| 7 | She 's taking advantage of him , she only wants him for his money . |
| 8 | Apparently , the free spending Italian club AC Milan were so taken with him that they offered Celtic a fee of £100,000 for his services , only to recoil in fear when the club 's manager Jock Stein told him they could only rent him for one game for that amount . |
| 9 | The German academics very prudently ignored him for forty years ; but lately , to the disgrace of Germany , he has been discovered by an English critic . |
| 10 | It was argued that this was needed to allow the husband to do the field work as quickly as possible and so release him for more off-farm employment . |
| 11 | She patiently gammed him for long minutes ; fondling his testicles with one hand , and exploring the cleft of his arse with the other . |
| 12 | Coleen , however , although she loved Mr Cubbage , wanted time to think things over and would gently scold him for his haste . |
| 13 | We have much to bless and indeed warmly remember him for . |
| 14 | She laughed silently at herself ; she had only known him for a few hours , and here she was , assessing his character as if he were an old and true friend . |
| 15 | It 's ridiculous — I 've only known him for a few weeks . |
| 16 | ‘ You 've only known him for a few months ! ’ |
| 17 | Alexia and Cameron III gently chided him for his whistling habit , and he developed an aversion to his own work . |
| 18 | I only saw him for half an hour . |
| 19 | I only saw him for a moment , but my blood seemed to freeze . |
| 20 | You have to get him wound down a bit , you have to do it , you know of a about half an hour or so ask him for the proper name ! |
| 21 | " I think you 'd better leave him for now , " interrupted Mr Jenks , walking down the corridor , " I 'll deal with him later . " |
| 22 | Has he any idea , she was wondering , that that woman is only marrying him for his money ? |
| 23 | ‘ But is it enough to marry him for ? |
| 24 | I 've got to be made to realize that I only love him for what I can get out of it . |
| 25 | Of all his field agents Philpott had known Whitlock the longest , having personally recruited him for MIS at Oxford University . |
| 26 | Hurley had not forgiven him for the loss of Syrian George , and he was still under heavy pressure from Washington to show results , but in general Coleman made sure they got along for the sake of his back-channel reports to MC/10 Control . |
| 27 | Mr Fractor threatened him with a sum stretching right round the classroom if he did n't stay awake and had already punished him for not finishing his work on time . |
| 28 | Cunningham 's chummy dropping of the ‘ Mr ’ from his name did not fool him for a moment : the withdrawn and irascible figure he had encountered in mid-afternoon was nearer the soul of this man than mine accommodating and smiling host of the Skein of Geese 's oak-panelled restaurant . |
| 29 | No , they just got him for beating somebody . |
| 30 | But it is too soon for him to face the likes of Devon Malcolm , and Fletcher said the tour selectors would not consider him for the pipe opener in Faridabad . |