Example sentences of "the [noun] [vb past] he for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Board dismissed him for allegedly failing in his duties to teach junior doctors . |
| 2 | The board dismissed him for ‘ gross misconduct and gross professional negligence ’ and is still considering legal steps to recover the cash . |
| 3 | The superintendent thanked him for his help and bade him goodnight but with a distracted air as though her attention were elsewhere . |
| 4 | He was surprised when the girl asked him for threepence . |
| 5 | The postman thanked him for the warning and drove back to Mount Carmel . |
| 6 | And then he gave order that all the windows of the towers which looked in upon the town should be closed up , that the Christians might not see what the Moors did in their houses ; and the Moors thanked him for this greatly . |
| 7 | The People attacked him for accepting the freebie during the 1990 Gulf crisis . |
| 8 | The maid mocked him for his name , and so angry was the sprite that , as he left , fire irons were thrown through walls , dogs howled , doors slammed and all the household fires were extinguished forever . |
| 9 | He seemed as happy as Larry trailing round the greasy dustbins of Bristol till nuclear war broke out or the police nabbed him for pilfering a used Tesco bag . |
| 10 | ‘ But the robbers killed him for nothing . |
| 11 | He is a central defender I think and the Blades bought him for 350,000 from Palace . |