Example sentences of "[verb] him [adv prt] for [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | PSYCHIATRIC reports are to be prepared on an unemployed woodcutter , Brian McGregor , whose forged football coupon lined him up for potential winnings of £3,826.47 billion . |
2 | We 'll let him in for free ! |
3 | I concluded from what Heather told me that Alan had taken him on for old time 's sake . ’ |
4 | He had been thinking , as he frequently did , of pain , and of how it almost seemed as though Rogal Dorn had singled him out for special benediction even before the Primarch 's germ-plasm had been introduced into his body … |
5 | It was partly for shame after all the talk and the things that the papers said , but as well as that they wanted to cut him off for good . ’ |