Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] him for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once again he has to thank him for a new book , this time Nineteen Eighty-Four ( 1949 ) ; but now he sounds cool . |
| 2 | When that news hits him , the narrator seems to crumble , even though a premonitory dream the night before has readied him for the shock . |
| 3 | Marco has been brought up by his rather in a way designed to fit him for the future . |
| 4 | The ‘ fine boy ’ with the grim destiny is Thomas Fox , a boy of fifteen whose father , a small farmer , has entrusted him for the first time with a flock of sheep for Portsmouth market . |
| 5 | ‘ Maverick limey has negotiated the hell-fire of the Brain and the almighty trail-boss Midwinter has summoned him for a special assignment . ’ |
| 6 | If he has become a hero to the Muslim masses outside , and probably to a lot of Third World non-Muslims , it is not on his merits , but because the United States , with gratuitous and superfluous aid from Britain , has cast him for the part . |
| 7 | The clever Ephron has taken him for a very long ride indeed . |
| 8 | Charlotte only wants to marry him for the house and comforts he can provide her later in life . |
| 9 | Just turned forty , Frank is married to his job , his wife has left him for a colleague , and when he encounters the sexually predatory Helen ( Ellen Barkin ) he breaks one of the first rules in the book by falling for a suspect . |
| 10 | ‘ I 'd heard him for a bit by then . |
| 11 | The name seemed to halt him for a moment , but when his hands were again moving over her , the scream she let out crying , ‘ Mother ! |
| 12 | Perhaps if I 'd entered him for the Champion Hurdle , he might have sold . |
| 13 | She 'd spotted him for the first time three weekends ago when she 'd walked out on to the nightclub stage to perform her warm-up spot for the star turn of the evening . |
| 14 | But he says the payout ca n't begin to compensate him for the devastating effect the accident has had on his life . |
| 15 | Hamnett became irate and , alleging breach of contract and damage to her image , threatened to sue him for a £500,000 . |
| 16 | Goldwyn threatened to sue him for a million dollars , but Mayer convinced him that such a court case would cast a dim light on the entire industry . |
| 17 | ‘ I could have forgiven him for the debts he piled up , but the lies , having another woman — I can never forgive that , ’ Jean says . |
| 18 | Bonanza Boy , one of my old favourites , has been a remarkable horse over the years and I am a touch sad in having to desert him for a horse I consider to have a better chance . |
| 19 | We decided to hire him for the day , and negotiated a price . |
| 20 | Nothing in his IBM Corp background could have prepared him for the kind of speech he gave — in fact had to give , if Taligent is to be seen as the answer to the world 's ills . |
| 21 | Nothing however could have prepared him for the drama to come . |
| 22 | If only conventions were not so rigid she could easily have had him for a lodger . |
| 23 | According to Constanze , he received the news with painful resignation , saying that the situation would have enabled him for the first time to have sufficient leisure to write what he wanted , and to justify his growing reputation ; but instead only death awaited him . |
| 24 | Sir James Barrie would have known him for a Lost Boy . |
| 25 | If the hon. Gentleman wants to be on his way , I would not wish to delay him for a moment . |
| 26 | ‘ But if he is n't going to bother , I do n't think it 's fair to the other players to keep choosing him for the reserves . |
| 27 | Some might have taken him for a mere apprentice enchanter who had run away from his master out of defiance , boredom , fear and a lingering taste for heterosexuality . |
| 28 | We did n't attempt to touch him for a lizard can easily lose its tail at the defensive snapping point . |
| 29 | In his brown canvas boots , faded blue trousers , checked shirt and frayed cap , one might have mistaken him for a man of no consequence instead of a senior member of local government . |
| 30 | I said I may have to hurt him for a remark like that . |