Example sentences of "[to-vb] him for [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The inclusion of this clause enables him to recover all loss , however remote , ( provided he can prove causation ) suffered as a result of the sellers 's wrongful acts , since the seller has , by the clause , undertaken an express obligation to compensate him for such loss . |
| 2 | An obstacle to Buchan 's transfer was that he would lose income from his Sunderland shop , and the deal was delayed for two months while ‘ under-the-counter ’ terms were agreed to compensate him for this loss . |
| 3 | ‘ I have been waiting to pick him for some time but our form was not good and it was not easy on Dion living in hotels . |
| 4 | ‘ To howl down a man just because he happens to be out of form one day is often sufficient to discourage him for all time , ’ he told the Yorkshire Evening Post . |
| 5 | Of the love , she knew he was growing tired but since her own ardour had considerably diminished after Pilade 's birth she was not disposed to criticise him for this . |
| 6 | I tried to press him for some specifics , but he was n't saying much . |
| 7 | ‘ He was upset that the boy would try to tap him for that dreadful suit . |
| 8 | ‘ Why were n't you able to keep him for more than a few months ? ’ |
| 9 | Athelstan looked at her and prayed to God to forgive him for all he felt was disgust . |
| 10 | I took another deep breath — I only wanted to see him for half an hour — and said what I could . |
| 11 | The best thing for this chap would be to caution him for this offence . |
| 12 | I decided to go back to the village , to thank him for all his help , and to carry out a plan I had been considering for some time . |
| 13 | I should like , on their behalf , to thank him for all he has done and to wish him every success in his new appointment as Director General of the Electronic Components Industry Federation . |
| 14 | We would also like to thank him for all the hard work he put into Lee Green . |
| 15 | I have to thank him for that . |
| 16 | She remembered how she had n't been allowed to hold him for more than a moment before he had to go back behind the bars of his crib . |
| 17 | ‘ To jail him for that long is ridiculous . |
| 18 | ‘ We 've been trying to wake him for half an hour , ’ said Fritz . |
| 19 | From the prologues to the Heautontimorumenos and the Adelphoe we know that his competitors had tried to discredit him for this . |
| 20 | By Spain , Jackie was beginning to feel the first twinges of the ulcer which was to hamper him for some time and keep him out of racing properly — and out of Belgium altogether — until July . |
| 21 | They manhandled Mr Reagan to the side of the stage and pounced on his attacker , forcing him over the podium to check him for any possible weapons before dragging him away . |
| 22 | It was the question she had been screwing up her courage to ask him for some time , but Duro pretended he had n't heard , and turned away to talk to Dom Alfonso . |
| 23 | We begin to ask him for more of his love to love him more . |
| 24 | This was no doubt an acceptable enough decision on the facts had the EAT not propounded the thesis that ‘ if it was reasonable for [ the employee ] to decline these terms , then it would have been unreasonable for the employers to dismiss him for such refusal ’ . |
| 25 | The landlord should include in the terms of engagement that the agent is liable to reimburse him for any penalty or interest arising from the agent 's error or late submission of information . |
| 26 | That five was to haunt him for many months afterwards . |
| 27 | A normal family life , he repeated to himself , and smiled almost wanly at the thought of something that seemed destined to elude him for several years to come . |