Example sentences of "[verb] he for this [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 | 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 . |
| 4 | Nothing in his many years ' service had prepared him for this sort of situation . |
| 5 | Sir Charles , whose practice as a family solicitor in Hertfordshire had not prepared him for this sort of thing , was losing control . |
| 6 | The best thing for this chap would be to caution him for this offence . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | She would not , could not leave him for this boy ! |
| 9 | He has n't , they have n't paid him for this car yet |