Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] he for [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed , the day before he had received Karl Rahner to thank him for his work for the Council . |
| 2 | Both districts selected him for their under-21 practice matches in January , but the youngster , who played for Ayr while he was still at Kyle Academy , opted for his home district , Glasgow . |
| 3 | The superintendent thanked him for his help and bade him goodnight but with a distracted air as though her attention were elsewhere . |
| 4 | Markby thanked him for his prompt intervention and help . |
| 5 | The Spirit of the Lord , the ruach adonai passes to David to equip him for his princely service . |
| 6 | I 've a good mind to ask him for it after all . " |
| 7 | The boys at school were sure to snigger at him behind his back , and the Irishman and his rough friends would have one more excuse to belittle him for their own amusement . |
| 8 | Well he 's saying that that bloke mistook him for somebody else then ? |
| 9 | It was agreed that a letter be sent to Mr Field thanking him for his work as Membership Secretary and on the Committee . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Ruth thanked him for his information and a few minutes later he raised his hat and walked away . |
| 12 | Schmeichel seemed certain to miss Monday ‘ s Premier League match at Southampton because Denmark need him for their game in Latvia on Wednesday . |
| 13 | Mallachy , remembering the story they 'd concocted , gave Rory a piece of paper which contained ( he said ) a ‘ list of the addresses ’ , and Rory thanked him for his trouble . |
| 14 | In his book Rest Days Hutton Webster has drawn attention to the passage in 2 Kings 4 : 23 , describing how , when the Shunammite woman wanted to go to the prophet Elijah to beg him for her son 's life to be restored , her husband objected , saying ‘ Wherefore wilt thou go to him today ? |
| 15 | I have no idea what Satan 's personal appearance is like — if a spirit with virtually no personhood left can be said to have an appearance — but the divine drama knows him for what he is . |
| 16 | Mrs McRobert said that Say continued to threaten to take his own life , blaming his wife 's decision to leave him for his predicament . |
| 17 | His enemies among the ancient geographers attacked him for what he reported about the mysterious North — Great Britain , Jutland , and whatever Thule was . |
| 18 | Sixteen million viewers thanked him for it , very soon dangerously hooked on the bronzed domestic shenanigans of Ramsay Street 's self-pollinating families . |
| 19 | Bob Halton , not guilty enough , but confused by his mother 's spoiling and manipulative efforts to keep him for herself , is petrified of being taken over completely . |
| 20 | ‘ Twenty-four years old he was when I found him in the provost 's prison in Paris , and paid his fine to get him for my own , him and that foster-brother of his whom you know well . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ Certainly , Doctor , if you say so , ’ she replied sweetly , containing the urge to crown him for his patronising ignorance . |
| 22 | In France he was courted by publicity-conscious surfers ; people asked him for his autograph . |
| 23 | And after all , Rothesay , so they said , had led Margaret a dog 's life after all her father 's pains to secure him for her , and been by any standard a poor bargain for any girl , having worn out so many before her — including , the bolder gossips whispered , Dunbar 's unhappy daughter , affianced and bedded but never wed . |
| 24 | He moved on to build up quite a successful sub-post office , yet still people remember him for his first novel ’ |
| 25 | She could act the loving spouse as well as fitzAlan , she decided , succumbing to a rare mischievous impulse to repay him for his earlier comments . |
| 26 | ‘ My father bought him for me , ’ Artemis replied . |
| 27 | By late September , the local doctor concluded that the lad was sinking fast , and told him ( according to the diary ) ‘ that notwithstanding all the efforts which have been made to check the disease , they had not done so … and advised him to look to God to prepare him for whatever might be the event of the disease . |
| 28 | Seeing him in good spirits now , Boswell teased him for his earlier hesitancy , called him ‘ a delicate Londoner … a macaroni ’ , and Johnson defended himself with an unserious disingenuousness by saying he had only feared not finding a horse able enough to carry him . |
| 29 | Only yesterday he received a letter from Mr Clinton thanking him for his support . |
| 30 | I in turn thanked him for his careful encouragement and support at the various stages of the project . |