Example sentences of "[verb] him for an [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And he looks a lot better for the change , although I have to tell you that by the time I had grilled him for an hour and tested him out on the snooker table I did notice that he reached for a cigarette . |
| 2 | She had not seen him for an hour or more , he had been here earlier , had he left in a fit of boredom , was he sulking in |
| 3 | I was told I could see him for an hour but they got held up on the way and I was rushed through the visit . |
| 4 | Carolyn knew that he was angry with her , for some reason which she could n't fathom , and that the more she pressed him for an explanation the more he clammed up over it . |
| 5 | The knowing look in his eyes let her know she had n't fooled him for an instant , but he gave a single nod . |
| 6 | That way , he would be left alone without worrying why no one was asking him for an autograph . |
| 7 | I asked him for an instance of the difference between bookselling in Knightsbridge , London , and Union Street , Glasgow . |
| 8 | Once , Barry 's daughter asked him for an autograph . |
| 9 | That is why I took him for an agent . |
| 10 | We took him for an X-ray . |
| 11 | In the next throne along lounged an elegant young man — summer business suit , Cal tan , thick , unlayered rug : I took him for an actor . |
| 12 | On that third morning , though , it had been Haynes who led out the home team , since Richards was in the press box breathing fire at Daily Express journalist James Lawton who had asked him for an explanation of the V-sign he had given to his own crowd . |
| 13 | She despised him for an affair that had begun and ended thirty years before . |
| 14 | His father intended him for an army career , but that and a project for farming in the colonies came to nothing ; and by 1885 he was living hand to mouth in Chelsea as an illustrator and journalist . |
| 15 | Well , can we go and ask him for an invitation ? |
| 16 | Now Ebenezer Judge understood what he must have felt , as a dozen willing hands hoisted him on high , held him for an instant in mid-air , then let him down , inch by inch , until the back of his head knocked against the stone wall and the freezing water lapped over his boots . |