Example sentences of "[verb] him for a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | GINA MORRIS joins him for a big breakfast . |
| 2 | The Welshman kicked the ball away and referee Dangaard dismissed him for a second bookable offence . |
| 3 | He 'll cry long and hard , and though you can soothe him for a few minutes at a time , hours can pass without you ever really silencing the cries . |
| 4 | A furtive junior diplomat bowing and scraping his way out of the interview section of the Lefortovo , ogling the KGB man and thanking him for a fifteen-minute access to a prisoner for whom the key was now thrown far away . |
| 5 | Prison officials , concerned about his poor health , referred him for a medical examination which confirmed widespread injuries , including marks around the wrist , apparently caused by the hanging , and burns ‘ possibly caused by electrical current . ’ |
| 6 | It was a nice face and , other things being equal , she would have responded to that first , she had been wanting to get to know him for a long time . |
| 7 | But because it 's so authentic people often mistake him for a real policeman . |
| 8 | It was when I had n't seen him for a long time and I was all wound up . |
| 9 | His crooked smile was very much in evidence and Matey could have told her that since her arrival Dr Neil had been happier than she had seen him for a long time — there had been fewer backslidings towards the ‘ nasty whisky ’ since McAllister had appeared in his life to provide him with such rich amusement . |
| 10 | The big fella is more keyed up than I 've seen him for a long time and he is channelling all his energies into one final world cup fling . |
| 11 | and we 'll sort it out ourselves and what they do , if a customer says oh there 's a phone that 's broke , or it 's not working or something like that , they 'll say oh okay we 'll get in touch with the maintenance for you , you see , cos he 's making nowt out of it , if you say we dropped the phone and broke it , well we 'll send a and then they send an engin one of their blokes out with a replacement phone and charge him for a new one , once they say wants some re-programming doing , oh yeah were sending an engineer round and they get , the dealer then gets the money for it so all we get is the flack end of it you know so we , a service contract it 's priced because , low because you know you 're gon na make a bit on moves and changes |
| 12 | She was still searching for the right words to describe how she felt when he suddenly got up and went to meet more guests , and she did n't see him for a long time . |
| 13 | She did n't see him for a few days after that , and had time to wonder why she had made it all up . |
| 14 | The education process which the 1970s building surveyor had undergone in the fifties and early sixties had not equipped him for a meaningful and identifiable role in the profession of the seventies . |
| 15 | Also their directors wont really be able to sack him for a few years . |
| 16 | So that perhaps will interest him for a little while . |
| 17 | So , ‘ Goodnight , Ven , ’ she bade him for a third time , only this time she stretched up to him and touched her lips to his cheek . |
| 18 | ‘ Maverick limey has negotiated the hell-fire of the Brain and the almighty trail-boss Midwinter has summoned him for a special assignment . ’ |
| 19 | Wahono , general chair of Golkar ( the ruling Functional Group Centre or Golongan Karya Pusat ) , announced on Oct. 20 that President Suharto had agreed to Golkar 's plan to nominate him for a sixth five-year term as president . |
| 20 | When he and Johnson got back to their inn , Boswell ‘ begged permission to leave him for a little while , that I might run about and pay some short visits to several good people of Inverness ’ . |
| 21 | He was asking me to respect him for an astute and informed observer , an impartial and honest man . |
| 22 | Please would she meet him for a long dinner on Friday — he would expect to hear from her tomorrow or the next day . |
| 23 | The regime thus charged him with damage of government property and jailed him for a few months until he was released under a general amnesty . |
| 24 | The recorder Nicholas Jarman jailed him for a further 3 and a half years for what he described as a terrible act with the most appalling consequences . |
| 25 | Taylor replaced him and , according to Rust , ‘ preached to the admiration and astonishment of his auditory ; and by his florid and youthful beauty … and sublime and pleasant air made his hearers take him for a young angel ’ . |
| 26 | If he is taken to court , detectives can apply for permission to question him for a further 24 hours . |
| 27 | Anabelle watched him for a long while , but he did n't twitch a muscle . |
| 28 | Sorrel watched him for a few seconds , then snatched it out of his hands and stuck it in her mouth . |
| 29 | Unwelcome tears threatened again to expose him for a big softie . |
| 30 | Sir James Barrie would have known him for a Lost Boy . |