Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] he for [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Clubs punished him for taking unauthorised time off , missing training and breaking curfew . |
| 2 | His final point about trust is fair enough , it sounds like he has had a gutful of Leeds fans berating him for sticking to his guns . |
| 3 | He did , however , mention his Stunt Bat which Graham Mackereth gave him for giving a speech . |
| 4 | The interim parliament condemned him for acting contrary to the peace process , and for a gross violation of basic human rights ; Johnson had given an undertaking to Sawyer that he would desist from carrying out executions , after previous killings of rebels and civilians . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Sarella hated him for putting it so starkly . |
| 7 | He helped Calamy list the ejectees of 1662 , and Strype thanked him for supplying transcripts . |
| 8 | The People attacked him for accepting the freebie during the 1990 Gulf crisis . |
| 9 | Once again raising the issue of Clinton 's avoidance of service in the Vietnam war , Bush denounced him for having participated in anti-war demonstrations while residing as a student in the UK , and also questioned the nature of a European holiday in 1969 in which Clinton had visited Moscow . |
| 10 | While some gay rights groups denounced him for promoting negative stereotypes , ‘ Men On Film ’ also became a regular feature on the gay club circuit . |
| 11 | Britain took him for granted . |
| 12 | Locke 's friends commended him for demolishing Proast 's ecclesiastical regime as effectively as he had the absolutist civil polity of Sir Robert Filmer [ q.v . ] . |
| 13 | Like Dexter , BBC pundit Lewis would receive a wage to compensate him for giving up his TV and newspaper work . |
| 14 | He seemed as happy as Larry trailing round the greasy dustbins of Bristol till nuclear war broke out or the police nabbed him for pilfering a used Tesco bag . |
| 15 | They were there together until 1771 , when Eleanor Coade sacked him for representing himself , instead of herself , as the proprietor of the factory . |
| 16 | Others applauded him for standing up to America . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | The verdict on whether Mr Lamont will remain as Chancellor remained open last night , with many Tories seeing it as an electoral mistake to raise fuel bills in the run up the next election , while others praised him for tackling the public deficit . |
| 19 | Some denounced Jean-Claude for insulting his public , others praised him for respecting them . |
| 20 | The delicate poetry of the atmosphere William seeks to establish is disrupted not only by that noisily symbolic iguana but by such clumping speeches as Shannon 's explanation that his problems began when his mother punished him for masturbating . |
| 21 | A small boy laughs an unforgivable sin in such a sober and wary atmosphere , his grandad scolds him for destroying the unquiet silence which haunts the underground , he grabs the toy gun clasped in his grandson 's fist and confiscates it after letting it wave foolishly , causing several greatly disturbed heads to turn , he buries into the depths of his duffle coat pocket . |
| 22 | This is why the experts of Jesus ' time criticized him for healing the sick on the Sabbath , accepting social outcasts , or infringing the fine points of the law . |
| 23 | Out to provoke Theo into a declaration of loyalty , and at the same time sting him for continuing to belong to a hated class , he charged him with hypocrisy and self-righteousness in refusing to belong to either side . |