Example sentences of "him [adv prt] for a [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 | When I got home , I kept him in for a while , then , ashtray at the ready , let him loose for another try . |
| 3 | So they kept him in for a cat instead , but Jessie wanted a , then Jessie , she could 've just love a fluffy white , so . |
| 4 | " I think it would be safer to keep him in for a bit longer . " |
| 5 | I asked him in for a break . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | She thanked him and waited while David invited him in for a cup of tea . |
| 8 | You invited him in for a glass of sherry to ask him if you could borrow his bicycle , and I came too . ’ |
| 9 | If Daddy was home , she 'd invite him in for a coffee and a clean-up . |
| 10 | 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 ! |
| 11 | We have n't put him down for a nursery school- ! |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | A left-hook hurt Ekubia in the sixth round , and then another put him down for a count of nine . |
| 14 | He will inundate us with charters — and all because London Transport turned him down for a job . |
| 15 | 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 . ’ |
| 16 | Let it carry him along for a bit longer . |
| 17 | Woody Allen passed him over for a musical . |
| 18 | Fallon still had a bit of work to do , even then , but he had already bumped off Perrins and Hannaford with one uncompromising run and this time his strength buried the rest of the Gloucester defence and took him over for a try in the corner . |
| 19 | Iain had invited him over for a meal . |
| 20 | So er I went down the Red Lion in Willenhall and fixed him up for a night 's dosh , did n't I , and the driver and then er I worked on , worked on and on and was able to get these er done for him to take back to fit this ship . |
| 21 | They brought Sam here , Put him up for a year . |
| 22 | Fowler and Gower held him up for a while with 91 for the third wicket , but by the close of play he had two more — including a caught and bowled — and on Monday morning , cutting down his run-up , he polished off the tail to finish with 7 for 53 . |
| 23 | Maybe it would shut him up for a while . |
| 24 | I think that my hon. Friend the Member for Tooting displayed the facts well , and it was perverse of Conservative Members to pick him up for a slip of the tongue when he gave an incorrect figure , which it is relatively easy to do . |
| 25 | As this happened two weeks before Christmas , Sinitta hopes someone scooped him up for a Christmas gift . |
| 26 | That would set him up for a world title shot at the end of this year in Belfast . |
| 27 | That would set him up for a world title shot at the end of this year in Belfast . |
| 28 | Iago rose to take his leave , but the prince called him back for a moment . |
| 29 | He had had to fight for everything he had done , fight the people who wanted to wrap him up safely and wheel him out for a bit of ribbon-cutting and ceremonial . |
| 30 | When she came back from changing , her haircut was a boy 's , except that it had new-born-looking curls at the nape of her neck , which knocked him out for a bit . |