Example sentences of "[vb past] him for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Welshman kicked the ball away and referee Dangaard dismissed him for a second bookable offence . |
| 2 | It was in 1977 and ‘ 78 that McEvoy won this title before Ronan Rafferty beat him for the first ( and only ) time in nearly 30 matches for England . |
| 3 | Britain 's golden boy who lost his shine when newcomer David Grindley beat him for the final place in today 's 400 metres final is ready to take a year off from the track if it means he can beat the trouble . |
| 4 | 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 . ’ |
| 5 | To cover the fact that she had far too many feelings altogether , she ignored him for the first part of the morning . |
| 6 | Fraulein Winkelmann told him for the Good God 's sake to get the papers fast , and Bruno went away and came back and pointed the Luger yet again . |
| 7 | ‘ We do n't want you to be neglected , ’ I told him for the umptieth time . |
| 8 | ‘ Not today , thank you , ’ I told him for the umptieth time . |
| 9 | ‘ You dropped him for the Prime Minister . ’ |
| 10 | It was an experience which steeled him for the future task of having as many as a dozen major country houses under construction in any one year . |
| 11 | I killed him for no more reason than I wanted to do it . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | In the car on the return journey , clutching the row of books like a concertina , Mungo thanked him for the third time , promising to pay him the moment they got home . |
| 14 | The quarrel between faith and unbelief touched him for the first time and unsettled his mind . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | As he unhesitatingly obeyed , she watched him , really examined him for the first time in their acquaintance . |
| 18 | Anabelle watched him for a long while , but he did n't twitch a muscle . |
| 19 | Sorrel watched him for a few seconds , then snatched it out of his hands and stuck it in her mouth . |
| 20 | Ritschl , by now increasingly confident of his protege 's abilities , recommended him for a vacant chair of classics at the University of Basle in Switzerland . |
| 21 | A 16-YEAR-OLD boy who fired a catapult at a low-flying Sri Lankan air force helicopter yesterday was wounded when the copter 's gunner mistook him for a Tamil terrorist and shot back at him . |
| 22 | This was not an opinion , simply the Catholic moral teaching , he said at the funeral of Henry Babbington , shot dead on Wednesday by IRA men who mistook him for a loyalist terrorist . |
| 23 | Thomas Poole the younger had been born into comfortable West Somerset obscurity in 1765 , and gave little sign to those who met him for the first time of the great gifts of character and intellect which he possessed . |
| 24 | Igor Stravinsky met him for the first time in this year , and recalled how shy he seemed . |
| 25 | I met him for the first time ever when he took over the leadership of the party from the recently deceased Hugh Gaitskell in February 1963 . |
| 26 | met him for the first time I think and erm |
| 27 | So with this going on we found our company would get on better if I had collateral so I wrote to this boy and asked him for a million and put it in a trust fund that I would get after his death , and we that way so okay . |
| 28 | At this point I thought she might be distracted by the kid whose chair was sticking out , so I asked him for a second time to move back even further . |
| 29 | Instead Barclays asked him for an extra £15 commission on his traveller 's cheques . |
| 30 | Soon after I got him I noticed a lump under his tummy , so I took him for a thorough check-up . |