Example sentences of "[vb past] him for his [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anton though , as if waiting for this opening , Parker 's panic , caught him for his best bite yet , a chunk : with all of his teeth , his werewolf mouth , from high inside of a beefy thigh . |
| 2 | It was Alan 's wife who entered him for his first rally and he enjoyed it so much he decided to continue . |
| 3 | No one in Bristol — certainly not Big Mal , now 65 — was letting on exactly who hired him for his latest battle against relegation . |
| 4 | For Binks was a plant collector , sending his finds to several eminent gentlemen in the Darlington area who paid him for his keen eyes and diligent legwork . |
| 5 | Though he attempted a detailed rebuttal , chapter by chapter , Milton himself had to admit that ‘ Some men have by policy accomplished after death that revenge upon their enemies which in life they were not able ’ , and that ‘ they who before hated him for his high government , nay fought against him with displayed banners in the field , now applaud him for the wisest and most religious prince that lived ’ . |
| 6 | I thanked him for his cheering thought and walked over to interrupt Barry who was involved with a small group of well-heeled tourists at the far end of the bar . |
| 7 | Markby thanked him for his prompt intervention and help . |
| 8 | I in turn thanked him for his careful encouragement and support at the various stages of the project . |
| 9 | presented him with a huge pepper mill and thanked him for his hard work . |
| 10 | I loved him for his special attention towards me ; he made me feel important — if only to him . |
| 11 | One of his red-letter days was the time we took him for his first ride in our newly acquired Rolls-Royce . |
| 12 | Against her creamy paleness his hand was a thin brown intruder , and he knew there were times when she despised him for his swarthy colouring . |
| 13 | The West German Government honoured him for his notable work in promoting friendship between the two countries . |
| 14 | The West German Government honoured him for his notable work in promoting friendship between the two countries . |
| 15 | Seeing him in good spirits now , Boswell teased him for his earlier hesitancy , called him ‘ a delicate Londoner … a macaroni ’ , and Johnson defended himself with an unserious disingenuousness by saying he had only feared not finding a horse able enough to carry him . |
| 16 | Gosse 's friends invariably forgave him for his wayward humour . |
| 17 | The Cambridge deputy orator of 1957 commended him for his ecumenical work , and as the tireless pastor of the northern province , and made no mention of his academic originality — perhaps the ghost of Bethune-Baker still peeped through a window of the Senate House . |