Example sentences of "[verb] he for the [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Stoughton was even a friend of Matthew Arnold , who proposed him for the Athenaeum . |
| 2 | Short had been saving him for the Ascot race . |
| 3 | ‘ I 'm almost sure he will not race again before , but we will enter him for the Hennessy Gold Cup in Ireland . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ Alex felt that if I selected him for the Poland game , he should play and try to help us get the result before announcing his retirement , and that was Bryan 's intention . ’ |
| 5 | He filled the kettle and set it on the hob , then went through to the front room , closed the shutters , and tried radioing on the frequency Caspar had given him for the US Embassy in Belpan City . |
| 6 | The world champion may not be worried about the £500 fine handed out for throwing the last game of his bizarre straight-games loss to Jahangir Khan in the final of last month 's Stuttgart Open , but he should be more concerned at the zero computer points assigned him for the Stuttgart tournament , which may enable Jahangir to overtake him in the New Year rankings , plus the fact that any further misdemeanour will probably mean draconian punishment . |
| 7 | Clever Trevor must be the most over rated player in Scotland ( except for Paul McStay ) and it surprises me how Taylor picks him for the England squad yet does n't give big Mark the nod . |
| 8 | Peter Nieswand used to go and interview him for the BBC , sitting as I did beside his swimming pool , looking across the lawn on to six miles of fine farm-land . |
| 9 | I 've tried without success to recruit him for the CPRE and the Friends of Spaxton Theatre . |