Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb mod] [verb] him for " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He 's a professional photographer — I must pay him for his work ! ’ |
| 2 | Yet it is impossible I should love him for his vices all ugly him over . |
| 3 | Thinking that maybe this man was the right man , that maybe it was him I should ask him for directions , him who would take me home or wherever it was I was trying to get to . |
| 4 | I 'll bollock him for sticking his rubbish in my cu cupboards . |
| 5 | I 'll get him for both of us . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ I 'll get him for you , ’ Stewpid is shouting … . |
| 7 | ‘ Yeah , old Fred 's a real card , but I 'll get him for you tonight . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ Yes , he is , I 'll get him for you . ’ |
| 9 | Potentially , the bastard I 'll get him for this , could be a confession . |
| 10 | , I 'll shave him for you Mark |
| 11 | ‘ Yes , Jaq , I 'll take him for you . ’ |
| 12 | If that 's his case then I 'll take him for breach of contract . |
| 13 | I 'll thank him for you . |
| 14 | ‘ I 'll enter him for Saturday . |
| 15 | ‘ I 'll canter him for a bit , then wait till you come up for your turn . ’ |
| 16 | Someone sent for the narrator 's father : ‘ My father said : ‘ I 'll come later on tonight : I 'll catch him for you . ’ |
| 17 | And Lawrence confirmed yesterday : ‘ I would not discount making a move if I could get him for something like £700,000 . ’ |
| 18 | My father was the sweetest man in the world and there was nothing I could fight him for , or do against him , or he against me , because nothing was said that I did n't agree with , or he did n't agree with , because I was a very easy child . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | I 'd sack him for that . |
| 21 | I 'd sack him for that . |
| 22 | One of these fine days , when he 's my uncle , I would thank him for this . |
| 23 | ‘ What you should want to pursue him for might be different from what I would pursue him for . ’ |
| 24 | I was n't saying Kerslake was crap , just that I would swap him for Dixon , Parker , Nilsson or Rob Jones . |
| 25 | I would ask him on authorisation from er the Assistant Chief Constable , I would ask him for a number of officers . |
| 26 | I shall remember him for his magnificent work in the West Riding through many years , and for his naughty and teasing sense of humour which so often cheered us up in the dismal surroundings of the Hemsworth Division and places like that , and which one realised hid a most sensitive and affectionate personality . |
| 27 | Whether he wins or not , I shall remember him for his fearlessness , for not being content to run like a solitary god between the gunpowder hills of Lanzarote , but for running in the race instead . |
| 28 | I shall ask him for the latest joke at the gates of heaven , . ’ |
| 29 | He followed this with the unkindest cut of all : ‘ Or is it that he is afraid I will ask him for money ? ’ |
| 30 | I can excuse him for yesterday as he had to leave at the start of the second half to appear on Question of Sport : - ) . |