Example sentences of "be [verb] him for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Let me now assume that you are being considered by a prospective principal and are seeing him for the first time . |
| 2 | Short had been saving him for the Ascot race . |
| 3 | And I think they 'd just been hounding him for a while and that was the last straw . |
| 4 | It er we are expecting him for the course on that date . |
| 5 | Then he observed in a flat tone , ‘ What a tragedy , in that case , that you wo n't be seeing him for a while . ’ |
| 6 | It was clear that she 'd been taking him for a ride , in that there was no ride in it for him at the end of the process . |
| 7 | Though he was more like his old self , many suspected they were seeing him for the last time . |
| 8 | She glanced up at him , feeling oddly shy , almost as though she were meeting him for the first time with no doubts , no mistrust , between them . |
| 9 | The repeated attacks of this last disease were to trouble him for the rest of his life . |
| 10 | In doing so , he had to jettison most of what those close to him had been telling him for the past 16 months . |
| 11 | Then he saw a wonderfully pretty girl who had obviously been watching him for a long time . |
| 12 | He had been pestering him for a while for stories about the grandparents he had never known . |
| 13 | The boyish expression transformed the hard planes of his face and she stared at him as if she was seeing him for the first time . |
| 14 | Owen knew from the title that this was a member of the Egyptian Royal Family but which of the Khedive 's numerous progeny it was escaped him for the moment . |
| 15 | That way , he would be left alone without worrying why no one was asking him for an autograph . |
| 16 | The old man was begging him for a dime to buy a cup of coffee . |
| 17 | The woman was taking him for a ride , working on him to get what she wanted , and that included Lissa 's destruction . |
| 18 | He practically had me signed up for the European Monetary System when all I wanted was to touch him for a gold moidore . |