Example sentences of "[vb past] him for a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One afternoon I summoned up my courage and as casually as I could I invited him for a drink after work that evening . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Kevin detained him for a moment . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ He feels as if you played him for a fool . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | There the warden arrested him , imprisoned him in his gaol at Allexton , and afterwards released him for a fine of half a mark . |
| 11 | Jimmy cursed him for a fool and thanked him for standing aside . |
| 12 | I cursed him for a fool . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Yeah , oh it really knocked him for a burton , you see his , you see Clifford and him , with this boy that 's had their , their , his son that was |
| 15 | Jack , by then very famous , called him for a chat and asked if he needed anything . |
| 16 | Once satisfied , she took his pulse again , then watched him for a while . |
| 17 | Berger watched him for a while , and then he also pulled up the collar of his greatcoat and turned into the corner . |
| 18 | She watched him for a while , feeling superfluous . |
| 19 | Lucy , still wary , watched him for a moment longer . |
| 20 | She watched him for a moment . |
| 21 | Robyn watched him for a moment unseen , clutching at the door , forcing herself to feel all right . |
| 22 | She watched him for a moment , wishing she did n't feel so defensive every time he broached the subject of Arnie . |
| 23 | Jack watched him for a moment , impressed , then winked at her and strolled off , whistling . |
| 24 | A pale blue light puzzled him for a moment , until he realised that it was the Calor gas stove in the galley . |
| 25 | The Fellowship on which he had set his heart was not available , but his professor , who knew the circumstances , recommended him for a lectureship at London University College . |
| 26 | It amused him for a moment to speculate about the others , if they too had seen the paragraph and whether they had been astonished and afraid . |
| 27 | Several minutes rock still and the sentries no doubt mistook him for a part of the shore over which the seas were gently breaking . |
| 28 | She only fought him for a moment or two . |
| 29 | She had never seen him with his hair cut short , and the absence of the red-blond locks made him for a moment unrecognisable . |
| 30 | Nicholas 's voice checked him for a moment but when he turned he saw that the taxi driver was out of the cab and attempting to restrain him . |