Example sentences of "[to-vb] him for [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Court of Appeal agreed with Wright J. Mr. Tully is in effect saying that if he discloses his dealings with his assets or the moneys of Wessex and Abbey and if he furnishes copies of the documents relating to those dealings he will be providing evidence which may assist the police to prosecute him for the crime of embezzlement . |
| 2 | The pub they used to have was patronized by shooting parties in the grouse season and one big businessman was so impressed by Grandad that he offered to take him back with him to train him for a position in his firm . |
| 3 | The name seemed to halt him for a moment , but when his hands were again moving over her , the scream she let out crying , ‘ Mother ! |
| 4 | They kept in touch and then , last March , Jakki took up Jim 's invitation to visit him for a week 's holiday . |
| 5 | We decided to hire him for the day , and negotiated a price . |
| 6 | Bonanza Boy , one of my old favourites , has been a remarkable horse over the years and I am a touch sad in having to desert him for a horse I consider to have a better chance . |
| 7 | Marco has been brought up by his rather in a way designed to fit him for the future . |
| 8 | And upon the way they round a leper , struggling in a quagmire , who cried out to them with a loud voice to help him for the love of God ; and when Rodrigo heard this , he alighted from his beast and helped him , and placed him upon the beast before him , and carried him with him in this manner to the inn where he took up his lodging that night . |
| 9 | Grateful to be spared the unsettling power of that dark gaze , Ronni took the opportunity to study him for a moment . |
| 10 | And yesterday he called their refusal to consider him for a factory floor job ‘ pathetic and ridiculous ’ . |
| 11 | Neither scholar had , strictly , gone through the stages necessary to qualify him for a mevleviyet , but the former was closely connected with the Grand Vezir Rustem Pasa , the latter with Sehzade Selim , later Sultan Selim 11 . |
| 12 | You ought to shop him for the income tax then |
| 13 | If there is a point to saluting the winner of a race , it is ultimately to celebrate his good fortune in being given the natural attributes to do what he does ; and to thank him for the excitement of the spectacle he provides in devoting all his concentrated effort to showing he 's the best . |
| 14 | They met at Cambridge when she — ‘ a lovely young woman with dark brown hair and blue eyes ’ — went to interview him for the university newspaper . |
| 15 | If he himself has not paid for them then the person who sold him the goods will be able to sue him for the price but will have lost any chance of recovering the goods . |
| 16 | And indeed it was from this time that he began to suffer the kind of serious ill health which was regularly to affect him for the rest of his life . |
| 17 | All ways to hold him for a while . |
| 18 | These icy cold droplets seemed to cut through to the bone as if to punish him for the way he was . |
| 19 | The repeated attacks of this last disease were to trouble him for the rest of his life . |
| 20 | If the hon. Gentleman wants to be on his way , I would not wish to delay him for a moment . |
| 21 | I do n't really understand what he 's doing , but it 's OK to watch him for a bit . |
| 22 | Braden did n't even offer to pay him for the ticket . |
| 23 | Charlotte only wants to marry him for the house and comforts he can provide her later in life . |
| 24 | Already in The Black Riders , though , he has begun to grow up and Violet Needham has begun to equip him for the role of teacher and mentor even as he is still meeting the challenge of danger with the eager opportunism of a boy . |
| 25 | They were concerned when his mother did not arrive to deliver him for the day yesterday . |
| 26 | They were concerned when his mother did not arrive to deliver him for the day yesterday . |
| 27 | While studying Tzintzuntzan , the anthropologist George Foster found that the female villagers would ask his wife to approach him for a favour ( Foster 1967 ) . |
| 28 | We agreed to have him for a fortnight but when the time came he refused to go , and would be with us yet if it had not been for the First World War and your father having to go … |
| 29 | In the hospital , sitting up for the first time in several days , he had watched the doctor anointing an old man who would have made a superb St Jerome : ‘ a thin , long , sinewy brown wrinkled body with such very distinct and expressive joints that it makes one melancholy not to be able to have him for a model . ’ |
| 30 | He practically had me signed up for the European Monetary System when all I wanted was to touch him for a gold moidore . |