Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] him for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But when I asked him for permission he just agreed . |
| 2 | Later she said : ‘ I think I ate him for breakfast . |
| 3 | I signed him for Middlesbrough , and I jumped at the chance to sign him again here . |
| 4 | I thanked him for dinner and said how much I 'd enjoyed myself . |
| 5 | Yes , I pay him for information . |
| 6 | When I ask him for telephone numbers of the people who know him best , he gives me the numbers of Deneuve , Shrimpton and Helvin before Jack Nicholson , Brian Clarke and Julian Schnabel . |
| 7 | I ask him for light . |
| 8 | She had forced him to live against the grain of his own nature which was weak and pleasure-loving and stubborn with it , so that when she beat him for laziness or lying , he became more determinedly idle and sullen . |
| 9 | Stephen was talking to a tall , elegantly dressed woman , who looked younger than she actually was , and her much older husband when she joined him for lunch in the beach bar . |
| 10 | It took only minutes for Lubor to drive her to her hotel , but as she thanked him for lunch and he handed her back her parcel , he replied , ‘ Lunch was a happy time for me also , ’ and did n't waste a moment to enquire , ‘ Shall we have a happy dinner together this evening ? ’ |
| 11 | Clifford replied that he would be delighted , he was a great admirer of hers , and would she join him for lunch when she came . |
| 12 | I mean you 've changed it , you know well you dumped him for Danny and everything well just do n't worry about it yeah do n't worry about it yeah look do you want me to ring him up and say anything ? |
| 13 | Yeah I know it 's easier no you must feel really gutted , I mean I would I know , because as you said , you going out for ten months yeah exactly , yeah , exactly I mean come on you really liked him fancied him loved him oh wow , I said love , love love , I do n't know love hey man yeah yeah it 's probably , you know like when you dumped him for Danny it 's just probably like that yeah exactly exactly , so do n't worry oh come on he ca n't give up ten months for nothing I know it has to end someday , but it does n't I mean it 's like everyone thinks like that , it really annoys me , everybody , right who 's about our age yeah , they just go out with someone knowing that one day it 's gon na end , they 're just waiting for the day , and that you know , you should go out with someone with the intentions of being with them forever I know that sounds pathetic , but it 's true , yeah I know , yeah exactly yeah , yeah I know , why do you think I said it ? |
| 14 | When you ask him for leave to serve him on this mission he will welcome it as the solution to his anxieties , for even if you are only gone from Kinsai for a time , it will seem to him that you do not mean to impose upon his favour . ’ |
| 15 | She tells him For Women have been swamped with fan mail and want to do a contemporary shoot . |
| 16 | In a civil action at Wick Sheriff Court , Surria Amin is suing her brother-in-law , Mohammed Hafeez , for the return of money and jewels she says she gave him for safe-keeping pending settlement of her husband 's estate . |
| 17 | We sold him for £100,000 to race in America and bought him back for £25,000 when he did nothing over there . |
| 18 | We asked him for news about our situation but as usual there was nothing he could , or would , tell us . |
| 19 | He insisted we join him for dinner where he regaled us with tidbits of gossip from the court and city . |
| 20 | We have him for history and her for English . |
| 21 | Whether they get the computer software , dolls and musical instruments they asked him for remains to be seen . |
| 22 | No I do n't , no that was just a nickname they give him for years ago , matter of fact I the other day , I was walking up and he called me , so I took me father 's name you see , nickname , that was . |
| 23 | He interviewed him for U and they passed the day together . |
| 24 | Jack Charlton gave Stewart the chance to star alongside Gazza and Peter Beardsley when he signed him for Newcastle from QPR . |
| 25 | I read summat about us swapping him for gemmil at forest … probably not a bad deal . |