Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] him for " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the council sought to evict him for non-payment of the extra rent he pleaded in defence that the resolution was invalid . |
| 2 | Finally she agreed to meet him for lunch the following week , and they agreed a time and a place . |
| 3 | I tried to press him for some specifics , but he was n't saying much . |
| 4 | He was quite aware of her marital designs on him , but she was very much part of the life which he had rejected , even if she refused to recognise that fact , and tried to reclaim him for it . |
| 5 | ‘ I 'd heard him for a bit by then . |
| 6 | The name seemed to halt him for a moment , but when his hands were again moving over her , the scream she let out crying , ‘ Mother ! |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | His background , therefore , and some aspects of his personality , seemed to fit him for government . |
| 9 | Imagine , she 'd thanked him for telling her Rob was missing ! |
| 10 | Perhaps if I 'd entered him for the Champion Hurdle , he might have sold . |
| 11 | They 'd followed him for years when he was politically active . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | She 'd fancied him for ages and when he asked her out she managed to keep her cool even though she felt faint . |
| 15 | I 'd loved him for as long as I could remember . |
| 16 | Hamnett became irate and , alleging breach of contract and damage to her image , threatened to sue him for a £500,000 . |
| 17 | Goldwyn threatened to sue him for a million dollars , but Mayer convinced him that such a court case would cast a dim light on the entire industry . |
| 18 | My mother took pity on him and agreed to keep him for as long as she could . |
| 19 | We decided to hire him for the day , and negotiated a price . |
| 20 | The police took one look at him and decided to leave him for later . |
| 21 | But when she read Brian 's application , she decided to nab him for herself . |
| 22 | I had n't , I 'd borrowed it from Duncan but I 'd heard the Hell 's Angel crack so many times before I suddenly decided to charge him for it . |
| 23 | 1156 followed its own decision in Rex v. Sheridan and applied it to facts which differed from those in Rex v. Sheridan only in that the defendant had there consented to be tried by a stipendiary magistrate and had pleaded guilty before the magistrate decided to commit him for trial on indictment . |
| 24 | They met at Cambridge when she — ‘ a lovely young woman with dark brown hair and blue eyes ’ — went to interview him for the university newspaper . |
| 25 | His second victim was drugged and raped when she went to see him for advice about work three months later . |
| 26 | One lady who was working in the Smithy and had recently been directed to Wolverton , kept pestering him for one , and at times was quite verbal about it . |
| 27 | We agreed to have him for a fortnight but when the time came he refused to go , and would be with us yet if it had not been for the First World War and your father having to go … |
| 28 | Erm , I mean , he wrote a lot , I saw him church on Sunday and I did thank him for the letter |
| 29 | Well , I did ask him for tangerines . |
| 30 | Nature , he thought , had intended him for scholarship yet here he was at forty-six , still a small-town tradesman . |