Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [verb] him for " in BNC.
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| 1 | A report says he made a series of errors , but goes on to praise him for rescuing his pilot and passengers when the helicopter threatened to catch fire . |
| 2 | Escobar announced last month that he was declaring war on the state and the government has since blamed him for a series of bomb blasts in Bogota and other cities which have killed more than 40 people . |
| 3 | Taylor even considered not selecting him for Sweden so he could blood the likes of Alan Shearer and Ian Wright . |
| 4 | He does n't think anybody has ever asked him for forgiveness either . |
| 5 | My initial reaction was to write back thanking him for his time etc and making a few followup points , but Ive come round to the idea a personal meeting might be nice : - ) ) |
| 6 | My initial reaction was to write back thanking him for his time etc and making a few followup points , but Ive come round to the idea a personal meeting might be nice : - ) ) |
| 7 | He says sex education at school is useless and has n't prepared him for what to expect . |
| 8 | She has n't seen him for 20 years and remembers him as a ‘ nice guy ’ . |
| 9 | " I think you 'd better leave him for now , " interrupted Mr Jenks , walking down the corridor , " I 'll deal with him later . " |
| 10 | At least he was spared the knowledge that he 'd given the doge 's ring to a heartless little bitch who 'd just taken him for a ride . ’ |
| 11 | I 'd not seen him for six months . |
| 12 | I always woke up hating him for not turning round of his own accord . |
| 13 | as if sensing that she had given up fighting him for the present , fitzAlan released her immediately , frowning down at her distraught face . |
| 14 | Unwelcome tears threatened again to expose him for a big softie . |
| 15 | The ruling was made in the case of Jairo Jonathan Elias Zacarias who had fled from Guatemala in 1987 after guerrillas had attempted forcibly to recruit him for military service . |
| 16 | Of all his field agents Philpott had known Whitlock the longest , having personally recruited him for MIS at Oxford University . |
| 17 | Similarly if his host says ‘ Come early ’ , having just invited him for eight o'clock , he will interpret ‘ early ’ with respect to the last-mentioned time , rather than to some previously mentioned time . |
| 18 | This pupil went on to criticize him for his lack of ‘ fairness ’ . |
| 19 | ‘ Carry on seeing him for the time being . |
| 20 | Caernarfonshire captain Dave Wallace said Llandudno had not engaged Barnes as a professional and did not pay him for playing . |
| 21 | Cunningham 's chummy dropping of the ‘ Mr ’ from his name did not fool him for a moment : the withdrawn and irascible figure he had encountered in mid-afternoon was nearer the soul of this man than mine accommodating and smiling host of the Skein of Geese 's oak-panelled restaurant . |
| 22 | Ironically , Gallacher 's capacity for tragedy did not leave him for long ; at the end of the game he was told his sister-in-law had died in Scotland , and as the tartan army led a ragtime jazz-band through the streets of London , Hughie Gallacher was on his way to the funeral . |
| 23 | This man would blow up a city without five seconds ' compunction — and she did not criticise him for that — but he would insist on good whisky , eat in good restaurants , like to travel first-class . |
| 24 | Certainly Jenny did not see him for the first few evenings she was at Moorlake . |
| 25 | He did not qualify him for income support , he supported him on to the back of his ass , he took him to the inn . |
| 26 | We do not condemn him for having being successful , but we do condemn a social security system which is prepared to help Mr Deaves indefinitely when other struggling families who do not meet the DSS 's criteria are thrown out of modest homes . |
| 27 | The process did n't perturb him for the simple reason that it did n't repel Willie . |
| 28 | I had to go for a piss , so I did n't watch him for very long . |
| 29 | but yesterday morn he was , yesterday morning he started crying did n't he , I did n't leave him for any length of time |
| 30 | I tried to tell him that I did n't blame him for deflowering me but he was n't listening . |