Example sentences of "and [verb] he for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The story ends with the teacher coming over and praising him for this reaction and Little Turtle receiving a very good report card that term . |
| 2 | In his battle dispatch , Beatty described Cornwell 's bravery and recommended him for ‘ special recognition … as an acknowledgement of the high example set by him . ’ |
| 3 | A brave reporter thrust a microphone under his nose and asked him for his comments . |
| 4 | I went to visit him at the Benedictine monastery at Nashdom and asked him for any insights which he could give me from his experience in Accra . |
| 5 | Thinking about this one morning in 1954 , I went along to the keeper of the laboratory chemical stores and asked him for something which was water-soluble and formed needle crystals . |
| 6 | I told him this and asked him for a prescription for a warm , dry home . |
| 7 | So with this going on we found our company would get on better if I had collateral so I wrote to this boy and asked him for a million and put it in a trust fund that I would get after his death , and we that way so okay . |
| 8 | I believe she has even phoned an old school friend of mine whom she avowedly dislikes and asked him for the manuscript of a symphony we once composed together . |
| 9 | He conquered him so completely that the man now housed him , clothed , fed and supported him and used every spare minute to coach and prepare him for some as yet unrevealed greatness . |
| 10 | Kalchu was ashamed of his drunkenness and Chola grumbled and rebuked him for it . |
| 11 | Mr Reynolds said he was ‘ disturbed ’ by the content of what Sir Hugh said on Wednesday and rebuked him for ‘ going public ’ . |
| 12 | It is only after a long period of counselling that she has at last realised that she has to drop her charge against her father , and to forgive him for not being the person that she longed he should be . |
| 13 | If there is a point to saluting the winner of a race , it is ultimately to celebrate his good fortune in being given the natural attributes to do what he does ; and to thank him for the excitement of the spectacle he provides in devoting all his concentrated effort to showing he 's the best . |
| 14 | She turned on Walter Ash and reviled him for allowing her to hope , and indeed , despite the final outcome , it was his dangerous encouragement of this scheme that prefaced her final disillusion with him . |
| 15 | The expression of faith found in The Westminster Confession tells us , ‘ Man 's chief end is to glorify God and to enjoy him for ever . ’ |
| 16 | The first year that they obtained a vintage of acceptable quality , he sent a dozen cases to his old régisseur to lay down , and invited him for a tasting . |
| 17 | I declined his offer of another brandy , made my excuses , and thanking him for his hospitality I left by the back door . |
| 18 | A furtive junior diplomat bowing and scraping his way out of the interview section of the Lefortovo , ogling the KGB man and thanking him for a fifteen-minute access to a prisoner for whom the key was now thrown far away . |
| 19 | Since first meeting him I learned to admire and respect him for his sincerity , humanity , integrity and his delightful sense of humour . |
| 20 | " endeavour to find out a person both to answer to their expectation and those of the Town , and … to superintend and assist him for a while . " |
| 21 | I took him round to Cheapside and booked him for being drunk and disorderly . |
| 22 | I 'll cut him up small and fry him for the kids ' breakfast . |
| 23 | His great-uncle took Charles under his wing and prepared him for the job ahead . |
| 24 | I used to sit and watch him for hours , painstakingly working on a painting , and , following his example , I would push myself harder and harder to make my own drawings better . |
| 25 | and we 'll sort it out ourselves and what they do , if a customer says oh there 's a phone that 's broke , or it 's not working or something like that , they 'll say oh okay we 'll get in touch with the maintenance for you , you see , cos he 's making nowt out of it , if you say we dropped the phone and broke it , well we 'll send a and then they send an engin one of their blokes out with a replacement phone and charge him for a new one , once they say wants some re-programming doing , oh yeah were sending an engineer round and they get , the dealer then gets the money for it so all we get is the flack end of it you know so we , a service contract it 's priced because , low because you know you 're gon na make a bit on moves and changes |
| 26 | After hearing the evidence the justices announced that they found him guilty , but on hearing of his previous convictions they decided that they would not deal with the case and committed him for trial to quarter sessions . |
| 27 | Time was the theme that fired his heart as a young student and affected him for the rest of his life . |
| 28 | Suddenly , one of his recordings sounds just like one of his stupendous live performances and shows him for what he really is : one of the all-time great conductors . |
| 29 | It was exactly eleven o'clock when the nurse came to her and said , ‘ You may go and see him for a minute . ’ |
| 30 | I said , you may go and see him for a minute , he 's out . |