Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] 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 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | He says he 's now firm friends with the doctors who prepared him for freedom . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 ? ’ |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | We asked him for news about our situation but as usual there was nothing he could , or would , tell us . |