Example sentences of "[vb infin] him for the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it is too soon for him to face the likes of Devon Malcolm , and Fletcher said the tour selectors would not consider him for the pipe opener in Faridabad . |
| 2 | He never saw the rope that would hang him for the noose was concealed in the hem of the white hood that the hangman drew over his head with the usual gentle suggestion that AIbert Pierrepoint reserved for these occasions . |
| 3 | Gusev 's family did n't see him for the rest of the weekend . |
| 4 | You 'll see — I 'll probably not see him for the rest of the week . ’ |
| 5 | She can keep him for the moment . |
| 6 | ‘ I 'm almost sure he will not race again before , but we will enter him for the Hennessy Gold Cup in Ireland . ’ |
| 7 | Her voice was abrupt and she did n't thank him for the offer . |
| 8 | Erm , I mean , he wrote a lot , I saw him church on Sunday and I did thank him for the letter |
| 9 | Brittain is always up with the lark and it was a nice piece of work that Needle Gun did under Roberts on the Side Hill woodchip gallops early on Tuesday that makes me select him for the Laburnum Stakes . |
| 10 | They told him to ignore it and to remain at home where they would join him for the evening . |
| 11 | He would probably do the latter , and hurry through the change of clothes which would prepare him for the half-hour 's weight-training which he did between ten forty-five and eleven fifteen every Tuesday and Friday . |
| 12 | But even I could n't blame him for the phone ringing just as I was at the front door . |
| 13 | ‘ And you ca n't blame him for the way we 've been conceding goals . |
| 14 | So people do n't blame him for the consequences of Versailles ? |
| 15 | I knew he was so incensed he could n't control himself ; I could n't blame him for the fury which inhabited him . |
| 16 | With his guilt over Anthony , he felt that at least she loved him and did n't blame him for the death . |
| 17 | ‘ If the right player becomes available , we wo n't lose him for the sake of an extra penny . ’ |
| 18 | Peter Nieswand used to go and interview him for the BBC , sitting as I did beside his swimming pool , looking across the lawn on to six miles of fine farm-land . |
| 19 | There were times when his grandma or his aunties made trouble for him behind his back , or when someone would comment on his lack of height and Sweetheart would punish him for the embarrassment he caused her . |
| 20 | The letter is interesting , though , for the light it casts on his rooted dread of mental imbalance , and on his horrified feeling that the unsatisfactory relations which had existed between himself and his father since eariy adolescence might somehow mar him for the rest of his life : You and I are both qualified for it [ neurosis ] because we were both afraid of our fathers as children . |
| 21 | Khrushchev could never forgive him for the cruelties and stupidities that brought Russia so close to defeat by Hitler . |
| 22 | Graham Taylor meanwhile will make changes against Brazil tomorrow as England try to dull the pain of the Boston defeat which the manager fears will haunt him for the rest of his life . |
| 23 | GRAHAM TAYLOR will ring the changes against Brazil in Washington tomorrow as England try to dull the pain of the Boston defeat which the manager fears will haunt him for the rest of his life . |
| 24 | At this point in Louis 's reign Nithard comments : " the emperor could now feel confident that the aristocracy would not desert him for the rest of his life " . |
| 25 | She might despise him for the methods he used in business , but the fact remained that she loved him , and if there was anything she could do to protect him she would do it . |