Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] him for [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But when I asked him for permission he just agreed . |
| 2 | Later she said : ‘ I think I ate him for breakfast . |
| 3 | I thanked him for dinner and said how much I 'd enjoyed myself . |
| 4 | Yes , I pay him for information . |
| 5 | When I ask him for telephone numbers of the people who know him best , he gives me the numbers of Deneuve , Shrimpton and Helvin before Jack Nicholson , Brian Clarke and Julian Schnabel . |
| 6 | I ask him for light . |
| 7 | Within a few months , in late 1954 , the Senate censured him and although Nixon , his loyal backer in the past , considerately struck out the word Censure from the resolution , which condemned him for conduct unbecoming to the Senate , he was finished in Washington . |
| 8 | In 1756 he had opened his poem On the Goodness of the Supreme Being with an invocation to Orpheus ( the Gentiles ' David ) which beseeches him for inspiration for his great religious theme : |
| 9 | There were two of Hugh 's sergeants waiting impassively along the path , with a litter on which to lay him for passage to castle or abbey , according as Hugh should direct . |
| 10 | She had forced him to live against the grain of his own nature which was weak and pleasure-loving and stubborn with it , so that when she beat him for laziness or lying , he became more determinedly idle and sullen . |
| 11 | He says he 's now firm friends with the doctors who prepared him for freedom . |
| 12 | Stephen was talking to a tall , elegantly dressed woman , who looked younger than she actually was , and her much older husband when she joined him for lunch in the beach bar . |
| 13 | It took only minutes for Lubor to drive her to her hotel , but as she thanked him for lunch and he handed her back her parcel , he replied , ‘ Lunch was a happy time for me also , ’ and did n't waste a moment to enquire , ‘ Shall we have a happy dinner together this evening ? ’ |
| 14 | Clifford replied that he would be delighted , he was a great admirer of hers , and would she join him for lunch when she came . |
| 15 | When you ask him for leave to serve him on this mission he will welcome it as the solution to his anxieties , for even if you are only gone from Kinsai for a time , it will seem to him that you do not mean to impose upon his favour . ’ |
| 16 | In a civil action at Wick Sheriff Court , Surria Amin is suing her brother-in-law , Mohammed Hafeez , for the return of money and jewels she says she gave him for safe-keeping pending settlement of her husband 's estate . |
| 17 | He 's multiple in disability , but we get help in Kilmarnock from Salvation Army , who take him during the day , FAB club where I go with him at night , and the hospital , Curtlingside now , who take him for respite social and everything . |
| 18 | We asked him for news about our situation but as usual there was nothing he could , or would , tell us . |
| 19 | He insisted we join him for dinner where he regaled us with tidbits of gossip from the court and city . |
| 20 | We have him for history and her for English . |
| 21 | I read summat about us swapping him for gemmil at forest … probably not a bad deal . |