Example sentences of "[verb] he for [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For Prothero is the demon-king of the Poundian pantomime , ever since Pound cast him for this role by printing , at the end of his essay on De Gourmont — originally in the Little Review , then in Instigations ( 1920 ) — the letter which Prothero wrote him in October 1914 : |
| 2 | Why did they need him for this job ? |
| 3 | The inclusion of this clause enables him to recover all loss , however remote , ( provided he can prove causation ) suffered as a result of the sellers 's wrongful acts , since the seller has , by the clause , undertaken an express obligation to compensate him for such loss . |
| 4 | An obstacle to Buchan 's transfer was that he would lose income from his Sunderland shop , and the deal was delayed for two months while ‘ under-the-counter ’ terms were agreed to compensate him for this loss . |
| 5 | Nothing in our four days on the felucca with this sullen boy had prepared us for this , as nothing could have prepared him for that afternoon in Asyut . |
| 6 | Nothing in his many years ' service had prepared him for this sort of situation . |
| 7 | Sir Charles , whose practice as a family solicitor in Hertfordshire had not prepared him for this sort of thing , was losing control . |
| 8 | I remember , one bloke , mind-reader he was — Steenie booked him for some Variety bill , forget where it was now . |
| 9 | Delaunay felt that the basis of his art was ‘ simultaneous ’ contrasts of colour , a concept which he adopted from Chevreul , whose colour theory had interested him for some time . |
| 10 | ‘ I have been waiting to pick him for some time but our form was not good and it was not easy on Dion living in hotels . |
| 11 | She always forgot , when she had not seen him for some time , how he affected her . |
| 12 | ‘ I 've not seen him for some time . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ I have n't seen him for some time . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ We 'll send him for another x-ray when he 's completed his course of strep . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ Oh , dear , you do n't want to hear my stories , ’ he would say when Benny and Eve plagued him for some information . |
| 16 | In this act , Luke is saying that God , who sent Jesus to do his work on earth , now consecrated him for that work . |
| 17 | Ludens was by now , in an ordinary sense , more used to being with Marcus , less afraid of ‘ saying the wrong thing ’ , and had resolved today to ask a crude question which had been troubling him for some time . |
| 18 | His lips twisted in scorn , and Lissa hated him for that look . |
| 19 | ‘ To howl down a man just because he happens to be out of form one day is often sufficient to discourage him for all time , ’ he told the Yorkshire Evening Post . |
| 20 | He was no more blind than you or I. Did n't you recognize him for that man we gave a ride to on the road ? |
| 21 | Because Boo had not been seen for so long by Maycomb , he was turned into a scapegoat by the adults who blamed him for any thing and every thing that went wrong , and the children thought of him as a terrible monster with blood dripping from his mouth who ate squirrels . |
| 22 | Tulagai was flushed and it was apparent that Jotan had been baiting him for some time . |
| 23 | It was strange how she loved him for that business with Tommaso so long ago , how she had such a feeling for the intricate conventions of the old code , and saw him as a man of honour , a duellist . |
| 24 | Julia loved him for that protectiveness , too , and pulled her hand out of his to let him go . |
| 25 | By gaw , he 's a topper and ah would n't sell 'im for any money , No man could ask for a better friend . " |
| 26 | The best thing for this chap would be to caution him for this offence . |
| 27 | This brief experience as a merchant seaman qualified him for another voyage , this time on an American cargo vessel bound for London . |
| 28 | Smith 's wife died in 1825 ; this loss made him for some time anxious to resign , and may help to account for the relative lack of distinction of his period of office . |
| 29 | The story ends with the teacher coming over and praising him for this reaction and Little Turtle receiving a very good report card that term . |
| 30 | The Tryons , in return , have frequently joined him for some fishing at Balmoral . |