Example sentences of "[vb infin] him for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You can trust him for that . |
| 2 | Why did they need him for this job ? |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | He grew a real beard , which would incommode him for other parts ; he thought , behaved , responded Learwise , in as short-sighted a fashion as that monarch would have done , having handed on his characteristics to his youngest daughter . |
| 5 | In fact it might just finish him for good ! ’ |
| 6 | ‘ We 'll send him for another x-ray when he 's completed his course of strep . ’ |
| 7 | And then the next little breath he 's off to America and you do n't see him for four weeks . |
| 8 | So we wo n't see him for many years , perhaps never again ! |
| 9 | I did n't see him for several days . |
| 10 | This time the defeat of his hopes did n't crush him for more than a few days . |
| 11 | There was scant eating in the meat , but it would sustain him for some days , assuming he could keep the scent away from wolves . |
| 12 | And you can report him for that ! |
| 13 | So that was the journey waybill and that was handed in at the end of the day and from that and a visual check of the tickets that were returned by him to the ticket office , they could tell which tickets were missing and therefore they were sold to him and er there be , there was the odd shortages but in those days if anybody was short in his takings by , I think it was about sixpence in those days , he was the subject of a another warning by letter and if he persisted , well then he was brought in to see the Traffic Superintendent who erm , could suspend him for two or three days , so he lost pay for two or three days . |
| 14 | Mardon , who began a week 's trial at Anfield on Monday , suffered an ankle ligament injury during training which will sideline him for two weeks . |
| 15 | He was no more blind than you or I. Did n't you recognize him for that man we gave a ride to on the road ? |
| 16 | Lucie forced a penny into his soft , sleeping palm ; dumped his shearing tools in his lap , and pulled his cap down over his face in the hope that nobody would recognize him for one of the players . |
| 17 | Holding that the defence was not available the court in effect classified the defendant 's belief that the arrest was unlawful as a mistake of law , which could not avail him for these purposes . |
| 18 | He is constantly haunted by the fear that the US might abandon him for one reason or another and has been particularly uneasy over the new US administration 's attitude towards him . " |
| 19 | She could hate him for those , and lose any incomprehensible hurt they occasioned in the heat of that hatred . |
| 20 | One of these fine days , when he 's my uncle , I would thank him for this . |
| 21 | In November 1959 he found himself back in Montreal , ‘ to renew his neurotic affiliations ’ as he was to repeat endlessly to journalists ; meeting his friends and family , sometimes bumping into his uncles who would take him for expensive meals at top restaurants — such as the Ritz — and hotels ; and generally awakening and reawakening those impulses and memories which would fire his imagination and energise his mind for months to come . |
| 22 | He was dressed in the garb of a typical construct worker , so that anybody he passed would take him for such . |
| 23 | Jeff was voted their Player of the Year last season , but they 've let me have him for six months . |
| 24 | A lot of people like it because basically th er when you look after a police dog it becomes your pet as well , you take it home with you and you take it to work with you , and the u you 'll have a police dog for sort of like its working life of seven to eight years , so basically you 're gon na have him for seven to eight years and he becomes a fa like a family pet . |
| 25 | Well , a bit of tough training will prepare him for borstal if nothing else . |
| 26 | He conquered him so completely that the man now housed him , clothed , fed and supported him and used every spare minute to coach and prepare him for some as yet unrevealed greatness . |
| 27 | I 'd sack him for that . |
| 28 | I 'd sack him for that . |
| 29 | I do n't blame him for one minute . |
| 30 | He may fail as a result of natural disasters but no one can blame him for that . |