Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] [verb] he for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Grateful to be spared the unsettling power of that dark gaze , Ronni took the opportunity to study him for a moment . |
| 2 | The Board dismissed him for allegedly failing in his duties to teach junior doctors . |
| 3 | The board dismissed him for ‘ gross misconduct and gross professional negligence ’ and is still considering legal steps to recover the cash . |
| 4 | People were very angry when Admiral Byng failed to attack the French at Minorca , and the decision to execute him for cowardice was exactly what the public wanted . |
| 5 | The President regarded him for a moment and Trent thought that the old man might rally . |
| 6 | The superintendent thanked him for his help and bade him goodnight but with a distracted air as though her attention were elsewhere . |
| 7 | He was surprised when the girl asked him for threepence . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The postman thanked him for the warning and drove back to Mount Carmel . |
| 10 | ‘ Certainly , Doctor , if you say so , ’ she replied sweetly , containing the urge to crown him for his patronising ignorance . |
| 11 | Then they led Linkworth to the hanging-shed to punish him for his crime . |
| 12 | The maid mocked him for his name , and so angry was the sprite that , as he left , fire irons were thrown through walls , dogs howled , doors slammed and all the household fires were extinguished forever . |
| 13 | The King had settled himself into such a groove of petulant determination that there was no question of the rejection of the bargain deflecting him for even a few days . |
| 14 | At about four he rang up the number given him for Gerald Seymour-Strachey , but he was answered by a not too refined woman 's voice — a voice with a touch of the treacle tart in it , and a touch of the plain tart as well . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The right hon. Gentleman has done a great deal during his period in the House for disabled people and everyone in the House admires him for what he has done , but he must know that there have been dramatic improvements in recent years in the scope , range and value of benefits and in the number of disabled people who receive them . |
| 17 | A journalist interviewed him for a book about his family , and when The Nielsons appeared , it made no mention at all of his professional life . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | I was a fool to endure him for so long . ’ |
| 20 | The chief minister of Maharashtra recently had to resign when a court indicted him for using his powers to speed up cement deliveries to people who gave money to his private foundation . |
| 21 | I sat eating my sandwiches in a grumpy sulk at the top of a mountain recently , while the pack of men surrounding a paraglider prepared him for take-off . |
| 22 | Like Dexter , BBC pundit Lewis would receive a wage to compensate him for giving up his TV and newspaper work . |
| 23 | In 1751 the Garden Committee recommended Miller be given an allowance of £4 a year to compensate him for the £4 increase in the rent of his house . |
| 24 | A nurse taking him for a more experienced dresser had given him a gown and told him to go into the Burns Room . |
| 25 | Manners retorted that this had taken place in February and Palmerston was in no position to criticize him for acting independently as he had heard that Palmerston himself had instructed the architect to prepare designs in a different style without consulting the House . |
| 26 | Several minutes rock still and the sentries no doubt mistook him for a part of the shore over which the seas were gently breaking . |
| 27 | When the time came , she would no doubt lose him for ever . |
| 28 | At Thanksgiving 1985 , Bush sent North a postcard thanking him for his work ‘ with the hostage thing and in Central America ’ and exhorting him to get some turkey ; North read it out at his trial four years later as evidence of approval , but it was all delightfully vague . |
| 29 | Chairman Lord Younger has announced that , in addition to a tour of the building , Her Majesty has accepted an invitation to join him for lunch . |