Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] he for [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the council sought to evict him for non-payment of the extra rent he pleaded in defence that the resolution was invalid . |
| 2 | Finally she agreed to meet him for lunch the following week , and they agreed a time and a place . |
| 3 | His background , therefore , and some aspects of his personality , seemed to fit him for government . |
| 4 | 1156 followed its own decision in Rex v. Sheridan and applied it to facts which differed from those in Rex v. Sheridan only in that the defendant had there consented to be tried by a stipendiary magistrate and had pleaded guilty before the magistrate decided to commit him for trial on indictment . |
| 5 | His second victim was drugged and raped when she went to see him for advice about work three months later . |
| 6 | Nature , he thought , had intended him for scholarship yet here he was at forty-six , still a small-town tradesman . |
| 7 | After the matinée , she had met him for tea , and he had held her hand , and looked soulful , and told her how innocent she was and how easy it would be to fall in love with her , but how he must n't , he could n't , because he would be leaving and it would n't be fair to her , and anyway , he had his career to think of , etc . |
| 8 | She had sued him for libel . |
| 9 | Again , this makes sense only if it is allowed that Kimon had , for several years already , had his rivals : Pericles had prosecuted him for bribery , though the charge was withdrawn . |
| 10 | They had started off friends but Joseph 's first wife had left him for Leary . |
| 11 | Cumbermound had sent him for brandy and glasses . |
| 12 | Critical also of the World Cup organisation , and referring to the umpiring in West Indies as ‘ disgraceful ’ , this agonising cricketer , who came from nowhere at 18 , spotted by Javed Miandad , seems greatly perturbed still at the £1000 fine extracted from him for swearing within the hearing of umpire Plews after he had banned him for bowling bouncers against Warwickshire . |
| 13 | They had fetched him for Christmas and he was staying on for the New Year . |
| 14 | It was quite soon after the terrible motor accident that had crippled him for life , and she had just come in from the garden with a bunch of flowers for him . |