Example sentences of "[to-vb] him for [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Scarlet had accepted that it was all her fault and endeavoured to do her poor best to compensate him for his unjust circumstances . |
| 2 | The boys at school were sure to snigger at him behind his back , and the Irishman and his rough friends would have one more excuse to belittle him for their own amusement . |
| 3 | Beaten into second place by his team-mate Rene Arnoux in the 1982 French Grand Prix , he pulled into a service station on his way home only for the attendant to mistake him for his rival . |
| 4 | When she 'd gone , Ellie glanced at Feargal and wanted to smack him for his slow , knowing smile . |
| 5 | The English-speaking media applauded Daniel Dubroca as a player and captain on countless occasions , but still felt duty-bound to criticise him for his arbitration . |
| 6 | These doubts , hard to pin down , because reason easily disposed of them all , crystallised around the fact that Comrade Andrew too often smelled of drink ; she could not bring herself to criticise him for his partiality to the goose-girl , because she had learned so long ago and so thoroughly simply to switch off in this area . |
| 7 | Mrs McRobert said that Say continued to threaten to take his own life , blaming his wife 's decision to leave him for his predicament . |
| 8 | She wanted to slap him for his cruelty and it was the only way to stop herself from springing at him . |
| 9 | In England , possibly as a result of the Continental view , rumours arose that the Great Fire occurred as a result of acts by ‘ papists ’ and the King ( who had married Catherine , the daughter of the King of Portugal in 1662 ) had to combat the ugly anti-Catholic mood of Londoners and Parliament , particularly when another rumour arose of a plot to overthrow him for his Roman Catholic brother , the Duke of York . |
| 10 | This pupil went on to criticize him for his lack of ‘ fairness ’ . |
| 11 | So with Amyas 's long , damp fingers pressed against her eyes , Jennifer was led stumbling into the passage , and on the way up to the house Sir Gregory tried to think how he was going to pacify his wife , who had never been able to forgive him for his infidelity and who had always resented the presence of his bastard 's daughter under her roof when she came to hear Mass . |
| 12 | Even though in giving advice to her brother 's wife she had told her to forgive him for his infidelity and take him back , which is what Karenin was doing for her and exactly what she did n't want . |
| 13 | ‘ Certainly , Doctor , if you say so , ’ she replied sweetly , containing the urge to crown him for his patronising ignorance . |
| 14 | I debated whether to call on him to kill him for his slanders before I came here to try to see her , and ask her to have me back — if you think I would make her a suitable husband , that is . |
| 15 | But then , just as he is halfway through explaining it , the secretary of the charity organization is shown in , wreathed in smiles and eager to thank him for his generosity . |
| 16 | She wanted to thank him for his kindness , to tell him how grateful she was that he had offered to help but the words would not come . |
| 17 | In fact Waugh had just written to him as a stranger to thank him for his ‘ ingenious and delightful allegory ’ — his gratitude all the warmer because , as he flatteringly remarks , he had tried to buy a copy and found it sold out . |
| 18 | Indeed , the day before he had received Karl Rahner to thank him for his work for the Council . |
| 19 | ‘ I want to thank him for his patience , foresight , and ability to interpret my ideas , incorporate his own with them , and achieve what you see here tonight . |
| 20 | I want first to say something nice about the Under-Secretary of State and , on the record , to thank him for his decision in the case of Younis Patel , who was in prison in Leicester for a number of months . |
| 21 | I would like to thank him for his considerable contribution to the company 's success over the last three years . |
| 22 | Brown severed the phone link as Mann continued to thank him for his release from detention . |
| 23 | Then they led Linkworth to the hanging-shed to punish him for his crime . |
| 24 | ‘ Twenty-four years old he was when I found him in the provost 's prison in Paris , and paid his fine to get him for my own , him and that foster-brother of his whom you know well . ’ |
| 25 | Damon 's previous work with us has played an important role in our success and I 'm very happy to be able to repay him for his efforts in this way . ’ |
| 26 | She could act the loving spouse as well as fitzAlan , she decided , succumbing to a rare mischievous impulse to repay him for his earlier comments . |
| 27 | God had given his Spirit to his anointed king in order to equip him for his leadership of the people . |
| 28 | The Spirit of the Lord , the ruach adonai passes to David to equip him for his princely service . |
| 29 | It was clear to me that they had spared him in order to groom him for their own uses . |
| 30 | And when the King thought it a fit season , he spake to him and said , that Doña Ximena Gomez , the daughter of the Count whom he had slain , had come to ask him for her husband , and would forgive him her father 's death ; wherefore he besought him to think it good to take her to be his wife , in which case he would show him great favour . |