Example sentences of "[pron] would [verb] him for " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd sack him for that . |
| 2 | I 'd sack him for that . |
| 3 | One of these fine days , when he 's my uncle , I would thank him for this . |
| 4 | ‘ What you should want to pursue him for might be different from what I would pursue him for . ’ |
| 5 | I was n't saying Kerslake was crap , just that I would swap him for Dixon , Parker , Nilsson or Rob Jones . |
| 6 | I would ask him on authorisation from er the Assistant Chief Constable , I would ask him for a number of officers . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | He would probably do the latter , and hurry through the change of clothes which would prepare him for the half-hour 's weight-training which he did between ten forty-five and eleven fifteen every Tuesday and Friday . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Mr Kinnock staggers under the additional handicap of having no ministerial experience which would equip him for the supreme office to which he aspires . |
| 11 | Later , she 'd take him for a walk , if her father did n't have time . |
| 12 | Because you 'd lose him for sure then . |
| 13 | One day soon she would see him for the last time . |
| 14 | When he looked away , she realised she would lose him for ever . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | He would marry another heiress , she knew that quite well , almost certainly one who would take him for his title , regardless of his character and conduct . |
| 17 | Old Peter was off to a STBO Club trip to Warwick Castle and besides , we 'd pay him for the two barrowloads we liberated . |
| 18 | They told him to ignore it and to remain at home where they would join him for the evening . |
| 19 | There was scant eating in the meat , but it would sustain him for some days , assuming he could keep the scent away from wolves . |