Example sentences of "for [verb] he [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 've been criticised for bringing him in so late but we tried to bring him in earlier . |
| 2 | It was perhaps a strategy for dissuading him from coming round so often . |
| 3 | Nadirpur spoke to his office in Monaco and left instructions for contacting him at the IAP offices in London . |
| 4 | Suspended for a week by the club , fined £2,000 and dropped following misbehaviour at a supporters ' dinner , Merson spoke of the 89th-minute winner that restored Arsenal to the top as a personal thankyou to Arsenal 's players and staff for assisting him on the road to recovery . |
| 5 | We were wined and dined at great expense and the next time I met Tommy he thanked me profusely for assisting him on that evening . |
| 6 | When Monmouth was executed , Ken was sent for to attend him in his last hours . |
| 7 | If letting him make love to her was the price for keeping him with her all night she would pay it gladly . |
| 8 | Mr Sergei Shakhrai , a key Yeltsin adviser , said he was instigating legal proceedings against Mr Khasbulatov for insulting him in an interview . |
| 9 | Rodrigo marched into Valencia in triumph , only to learn that his old adversary Berenguer of Barcelona — who had never forgiven the Cid for capturing him in an earlier campaign — had formed an alliance with the Moorish lord of Lerida and El Cid 's own sometime ally Mostain of Saragossa . |
| 10 | There is an overwhelming case for giving the D.O. , the most important unit in the whole machine , more responsibility , and for saving him from dancing attendance on Residents who notoriously dodge responsibility . |
| 11 | DAVE BASSETT last night thanked old pal Bobby Gould for saving him from a possible FA rap . |
| 12 | IPSWICH TOWN general-manager John Lyall will thank Terry Venables tomorrow for saving him from the wilderness . |
| 13 | He cried for put him on the bed , could n't do no college work so I just went to bed and left him . |
| 14 | He slipped away to the great palace of King Darzin and begged to be rewarded for warning him against his enemies . |
| 15 | Apart from the above , Richard Baxter records his thankfulness to God for preserving him in several accidents . |
| 16 | What this means is that B should have raised the substance of his Convention claim under any domestic procedure which was capable of giving him a remedy , including any avenues of appeal , unless , according to Commission practice , there were some reason for excusing him from doing so . |
| 17 | ‘ He died cursing your father for trapping him into a loveless marriage , ’ he growled . |
| 18 | venerable old Jew whose noble nature and gratitude to Fledgeby for releasing him from debts owed to Fledgeby 's father cause him to serve the young man devotedly as agent for Pubsey & Co . |
| 19 | I thought it probable the police were right , he had sought revenge against Imogen Surkov for separating him from his nice third wife , Vera , and their son . |
| 20 | David Icke insists he made no such claim , and blames the media for turning him into a laughing-stock . |
| 21 | He blamed it all on business , but could not resist taunting her for expecting him to be at h-er beck and call , while disapproving that he was rich . |
| 22 | Of Malcolm McLaren 's collaborators at the time of the Sex Pistols , Jamie Reid gets a mention for persuading him of the importance of situationism , and Vivienne Westwood for producing a t-shirt slogan proclaiming how boring Derek Jarman 's Jubilee was . |
| 23 | As he had been delirious on arrival , the authorities , knowing that his landlady , Mrs Avery , had been responsible for getting him into hospital , simply put down her name as next-of-kin . |
| 24 | And he blamed another girl for getting him into the drugs scene . |
| 25 | He 's very conscious of the fact that he 's indebted to him , not just for rescuing him from those awful guardians but for getting him into Grafton Abbey and then arranging for him to work for Mr Harvey . |
| 26 | Whatever their differences , could Huy hold himself responsible for sending him to such an end ? |
| 27 | The Manchester-based singer blasted the comic for parodying him on TV with his madcap character Morrissey the Consumer Monkey . |
| 28 | Among the points he made was the fact that the cost of immunising a child was 7s.6d. , against thirty times that amount for treating him in hospital . |
| 29 | He 's very conscious of the fact that he 's indebted to him , not just for rescuing him from those awful guardians but for getting him into Grafton Abbey and then arranging for him to work for Mr Harvey . |
| 30 | He credits Gwen and the Lovejoy series for rescuing him from a wasted life of bed-hopping , booze and drugs . |