Example sentences of "single he [adv prt] for " in BNC.

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1 Thatcher reportedly singled him out for promotion when he was honest enough to tell her that backbenchers were uneasy about the state of the economy : like the young George Washington , he trembled , but could not tell a lie .
2 Chapman became a target man in more ways than one as the Germans singled him out for a buffeting that went unpunished by Swedish referee Rune Larsson .
3 Professor Brighouse has no idea why Mr Patten singled him out for attack , but says the Secretary of State has been under a lot of pressure
4 He had been thinking , as he frequently did , of pain , and of how it almost seemed as though Rogal Dorn had singled him out for special benediction even before the Primarch 's germ-plasm had been introduced into his body …
5 And what would his heart tell him about the gods , who had singled him out for this fate ?
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