Example sentences of "him [adv] for [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Campbells steamer his mother had once taken him on for a day trip to Ilfracombe . |
| 2 | He found another vessel whose captain ( a Scot ) was prepared to sign him on for the voyage to New York . |
| 3 | Julie eyed him suspiciously for a moment . |
| 4 | When I got home , I kept him in for a while , then , ashtray at the ready , let him loose for another try . |
| 5 | So they kept him in for a cat instead , but Jessie wanted a , then Jessie , she could 've just love a fluffy white , so . |
| 6 | " I think it would be safer to keep him in for a bit longer . " |
| 7 | I asked him in for a break . |
| 8 | Andy Roxburgh will check on Hendry before the World Cup qualifier with Portugal and is poised to bring him in for a match Scotland must now win . |
| 9 | She thanked him and waited while David invited him in for a cup of tea . |
| 10 | You invited him in for a glass of sherry to ask him if you could borrow his bicycle , and I came too . ’ |
| 11 | If Daddy was home , she 'd invite him in for a coffee and a clean-up . |
| 12 | I 've put the belt in for when he 's bad and I 've sewn him in for the winter . |
| 13 | Probably because it was a way of roping him in for the future , Malcolm invited him down to a few rehearsals . |
| 14 | I usually work him in for an hour , but when I 'm riding him around in the arena before the bell goes , I 'm still thinking , ‘ How on earth am I going to get this thing up the centre line ? ’ because he 's gawping at everything , but then I give him a jolly good boot and we get on with it … ’ |
| 15 | She do n't put him down for a minute , oh he feels insecure and he 's left his mummy and goes love his granny and come on your granny , I think oh carry on ! |
| 16 | We have n't put him down for a nursery school- ! |
| 17 | In his second defence of the title , against the man he had beaten to win it in June , Wharton 's awesome blows cut Carr above his left eye and then had him down for a count of eight and unable to defend himself when he regained his feet . |
| 18 | A left-hook hurt Ekubia in the sixth round , and then another put him down for a count of nine . |
| 19 | He will inundate us with charters — and all because London Transport turned him down for a job . |
| 20 | Granville Again was out of form with a few niggling problems , so after talking to Michael I decided to let him down for a break then bring him back to his peak for one day — this day . ’ |
| 21 | He might not have been able to dodge the water , but they 'd never pinned him down for the Instruction . |
| 22 | You write to an imaginary friend , you 're inviting him down for the summer holidays and you say all that , all about the sort of things that you 're planning to do with them , make it up |
| 23 | So , hoisting her bag over her shoulder with an element of pride that for a brief moment made her lose sight of how important it was to try and pin him down for an interview , she made for the door . |
| 24 | She regarded him thoughtfully for a moment or two . |
| 25 | If he replied that he was , his new friends might address him so for the future , and he could imagine what Bigwig and Silver would have to say about that . |
| 26 | Her glance rested on him only for a matter of seconds , yet his face could not have registered more in her mind had she been staring at him for an hour . |
| 27 | Let it carry him along for a bit longer . |
| 28 | Or were you just stringing him along for the fun of it ? ’ |
| 29 | He conceded that it was hard on Alexander , and later came to respect him greatly for the way in which he gave Worrell his fullest support as vice-captain . |
| 30 | I looked at him doubtfully for a moment . |