Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] he for [pos pn] " 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 | 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 . |
| 7 | It was agreed that a letter be sent to Mr Field thanking him for his work as Membership Secretary and on the Committee . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Ruth thanked him for his information and a few minutes later he raised his hat and walked away . |
| 10 | Schmeichel seemed certain to miss Monday ‘ s Premier League match at Southampton because Denmark need him for their game in Latvia on Wednesday . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 ? |
| 13 | Mrs McRobert said that Say continued to threaten to take his own life , blaming his wife 's decision to leave him for his predicament . |
| 14 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ Certainly , Doctor , if you say so , ’ she replied sweetly , containing the urge to crown him for his patronising ignorance . |
| 16 | In France he was courted by publicity-conscious surfers ; people asked him for his autograph . |
| 17 | He moved on to build up quite a successful sub-post office , yet still people remember him for his first novel ’ |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Only yesterday he received a letter from Mr Clinton thanking him for his support . |
| 21 | I in turn thanked him for his careful encouragement and support at the various stages of the project . |
| 22 | The West German Government honoured him for his notable work in promoting friendship between the two countries . |
| 23 | The West German Government honoured him for his notable work in promoting friendship between the two countries . |
| 24 | Thirty years after his death in 716 , Boniface criticized him for his disregard of the laws of the Church and for his personal immorality and depicted him as struck with madness while feasting with his nobles , so that he died ‘ gibbering with demons and cursing the priests of God ’ . |
| 25 | Richard Rielly asked him for his views on Graham Kelly 's plea for clubs to share grounds if England are to stand a chance of hosting the nineteen ninety eight World Cup finals . |
| 26 | Graduates remember him for his concern for their personal and academic welfare and for his warmheartedness . |
| 27 | Then they led Linkworth to the hanging-shed to punish him for his crime . |
| 28 | Men love him for his hearty back-slapping and hand-shaking , for his habit of bear-hugging his male aides when things are going well . |
| 29 | The maid mocked him for his name , and so angry was the sprite that , as he left , fire irons were thrown through walls , dogs howled , doors slammed and all the household fires were extinguished forever . |
| 30 | Beaten into second place by his team-mate Rene Arnoux in the 1982 French Grand Prix , he pulled into a service station on his way home only for the attendant to mistake him for his rival . |