Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] him for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Midland Amalgamated headhunted him for the MD 's job at Pringle 's they offered him a Rover 3500 Vanden Plas , but Vic stuck out for the Jaguar , a car normally reserved for divisional chairmen , and to his great satisfaction he had got one , even though it was n't quite new . |
| 2 | I do n't really understand what he 's doing , but it 's OK to watch him for a bit . |
| 3 | She was too honest to deceive him and too prudent to exchange him for a lover whose interest would probably not last very long . |
| 4 | We do n't know what he 's like yet — would n't it be better to ask him for an odd Sunday first before we let ourselves in for a course of sermons ? ’ |
| 5 | If he himself has not paid for them then the person who sold him the goods will be able to sue him for the price but will have lost any chance of recovering the goods . |
| 6 | Also their directors wont really be able to sack him for a few years . |
| 7 | In the hospital , sitting up for the first time in several days , he had watched the doctor anointing an old man who would have made a superb St Jerome : ‘ a thin , long , sinewy brown wrinkled body with such very distinct and expressive joints that it makes one melancholy not to be able to have him for a model . ’ |
| 8 | Neither scholar had , strictly , gone through the stages necessary to qualify him for a mevleviyet , but the former was closely connected with the Grand Vezir Rustem Pasa , the latter with Sehzade Selim , later Sultan Selim 11 . |