Example sentences of "him [adj] for [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 If we could have got him to a warm climate we might have kept him alive for a year or two more than we did .
2 In fact , his phenomenal memory for facts and figures ( he has been known to correct Scottish former international rugby players on the score at half time of matches they had played in ) , combined with a genuine interest in people , made him ideal for the part and , from the day he joined TMcL a year before qualifying , his career took off .
3 She looked at him wide-eyed for a second , then ran off in the same direction as Isay .
4 We all wish him well for the future .
5 The judge left the bench and stepped down to the floor of the court to congratulate Mr Robinson and wish him well for the future .
6 She found him alone for a moment .
7 Maj. Miguel Nieto , the Chief of Operations of the National Police , was dismissed on June 18 and his immediate arrest was ordered , following government investigations which held him responsible for the failure of the security forces to quell the disturbances .
8 Scott gave Ruskin little praise in his later writings and held him responsible for the introduction of the ‘ Italian mania ’ into the Gothic Revival .
9 He is designated Commander-in-Chief , making him responsible for the safety of US troops abroad and for dealing with any threat to the nation 's security at home .
10 The onset of World War I made him responsible for the design and erection of explosives plant for the Ministry of Munitions , as well as plants for heavy chemicals , dyestuffs , intermediates , and synthetic drugs which , until that time , had been imported from Germany .
11 The bishop declared that for a clerk in holy orders to sit as a justice in eyre for forest pleas was contrary to the canons of the Church , and rendered him ineligible for an office involving the cure of souls .
12 In the first instance , the section permitted a chief officer of police who reasonably apprehended that a procession ‘ may occasion serious public disorder ’ to impose such conditions ‘ as appear[ed] to him necessary for the preservation of public order ’ .
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