Example sentences of "[vb past] him for [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For Prothero is the demon-king of the Poundian pantomime , ever since Pound cast him for this role by printing , at the end of his essay on De Gourmont — originally in the Little Review , then in Instigations ( 1920 ) — the letter which Prothero wrote him in October 1914 : |
| 2 | I remember , one bloke , mind-reader he was — Steenie booked him for some Variety bill , forget where it was now . |
| 3 | ‘ Oh , dear , you do n't want to hear my stories , ’ he would say when Benny and Eve plagued him for some information . |
| 4 | In this act , Luke is saying that God , who sent Jesus to do his work on earth , now consecrated him for that work . |
| 5 | His lips twisted in scorn , and Lissa hated him for that look . |
| 6 | Because Boo had not been seen for so long by Maycomb , he was turned into a scapegoat by the adults who blamed him for any thing and every thing that went wrong , and the children thought of him as a terrible monster with blood dripping from his mouth who ate squirrels . |
| 7 | It was strange how she loved him for that business with Tommaso so long ago , how she had such a feeling for the intricate conventions of the old code , and saw him as a man of honour , a duellist . |
| 8 | Julia loved him for that protectiveness , too , and pulled her hand out of his to let him go . |
| 9 | However , since the diagnosis of CMV retinitis was an AIDS-defining illness and therefore qualified him for permanent disability and other benefits , he had concealed this fact from those involved in his care . |
| 10 | This brief experience as a merchant seaman qualified him for another voyage , this time on an American cargo vessel bound for London . |
| 11 | Smith 's wife died in 1825 ; this loss made him for some time anxious to resign , and may help to account for the relative lack of distinction of his period of office . |
| 12 | We asked him for general news . |
| 13 | I asked him for some bread and cheese , and he went down to the kitchen . ’ |
| 14 | When Jamie came in with the food at gloaming , Cameron asked him for another blanket . |
| 15 | The thought that Ace could go bad rankled him for some reason , and he mouthed a silent prayer that her judgment would remain sound . |
| 16 | He spoke bitterly of the way she left him for another man , a student , when she was 16 then humiliated him by giving intimate details of their affair to the press . |
| 17 | Terry Melchett , the supermarket manager , whose wife left him for another woman , gave me a hard shove in the small of the back . |
| 18 | There were many shrewd operators who backed him for last season 's Grand National and they will be doing so again . |
| 19 | President Zia picked him for prime minister in March 1985 but he was criticised by the opposition for providing a democratic civilian facade to a military dictatorship . |