Example sentences of "[vb past] him for [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His seat is secure but he is also seeing the man who defeated him for the party leadership on the way to another victory for the Tories . |
| 2 | One afternoon I summoned up my courage and as casually as I could I invited him for a drink after work that evening . |
| 3 | The first year that they obtained a vintage of acceptable quality , he sent a dozen cases to his old régisseur to lay down , and invited him for a tasting . |
| 4 | And Sinatra punished him for the rest of his life . |
| 5 | In 1954 the publishing firm Methuen approached him for a Christmas card , as did the National Marriage Guidance Council , the latter printing 6,700 copies of his design . |
| 6 | Kevin detained him for a moment . |
| 7 | Her eyes beseeched him for the truth . |
| 8 | He said our flight had been delayed and he 'd spent the time in the bar , and then added , rather unconvincingly , that some woman had insisted on ‘ plying Phaeton with liquor ’ as he put it , but there was a hollowness in the way he said it , and I do n't think either Gill or I believed him for a moment . |
| 9 | ‘ He feels as if you played him for a fool . |
| 10 | His great-uncle took Charles under his wing and prepared him for the job ahead . |
| 11 | Middlesex , who fined him around £750 for a foul-mouthed outburst earlier in the season , immediately dropped him for the game against Hampshire . |
| 12 | A journalist interviewed him for a book about his family , and when The Nielsons appeared , it made no mention at all of his professional life . |
| 13 | Two of his greatest performances came in 1979 , with 5 for 38 in the World Cup final and 6 for 29 in the Gillette final for Somerset , although both times Richards pipped him for the match award . |
| 14 | Time was the theme that fired his heart as a young student and affected him for the rest of his life . |
| 15 | It lifted him for a moment before it threw him down , so that for a second he saw what he wanted : that the sea had already overrun the beach and the rocks and the shingle and was advancing like a black wall rimmed with white over the slipways and grasslands of Orphir . |
| 16 | Sometimes he would be able to hire a premium artist , one who paid him for the privilege of playing . |
| 17 | He might be the key to her freedom , but she still hated him for the confusion he aroused in her . |
| 18 | Managing the boat , he was in total command , and she admired him for the ease with which he wove between the countless busy craft , the pleasure boats , gondolas and the small and large ferries , his eyes constantly alert . |
| 19 | This Autumn two victories in smaller races at Auteuil — one over timber , the other over the larger obstacles — readied him for a trip to Newbury for the Hennessy , his first outing in handicap company in Britain . |
| 20 | There the warden arrested him , imprisoned him in his gaol at Allexton , and afterwards released him for a fine of half a mark . |
| 21 | Even Dole , who once challenged him for the Presidency , was on verge of tears . |
| 22 | Carolyn knew that he was angry with her , for some reason which she could n't fathom , and that the more she pressed him for an explanation the more he clammed up over it . |
| 23 | Manager Arthur Rowe signed him for the Palace , but it was under Dick Graham that Peter reached the climax of his playing career . |
| 24 | Jimmy cursed him for a fool and thanked him for standing aside . |
| 25 | I cursed him for a fool . |
| 26 | Some novelist went up to a critic last night and thanked him for a review he wrote on a novel of his in about the year 1900 and congratulated him because he got it right . |
| 27 | The postman thanked him for the warning and drove back to Mount Carmel . |
| 28 | ‘ I 'll be working like a Trojan for the next twelve weeks , ’ Lisa smiled back as she thanked him for the coffee . |
| 29 | But he would concede nothing , and in the end I gave him a dry little bow and thanked him for the tea . |
| 30 | When our reporter thanked him for the interview , Britain 's friendliest bus driver said : ‘ You are most welcome . ’ |