Example sentences of "he [verb] us for " in BNC.
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| 1 | He hates us for our dress and our bloodlust . |
| 2 | ‘ An ’ then he prosecutes us for cuttin' animals up in a public place , ’ Jake went on . |
| 3 | Writers were Tom Leonard , Alasdair Gray and ( he joined us for ‘ The Pie ’ ) Jim Kelman and I. Tom 's black , black ironies and satires on the Lebanon , the New Right , the Media , West of Scotland sectarianism and chauvinism ; Alasdair Gray 's insane Grant family , his moneyed braggarts and blusterers , his quick shifts of dramatic power in curt sketches , his deranged respected old politicos ; Jim Kelman 's surrealist pubs and monologuing gamblers , and grim almost folk tales — like the story of ‘ The Hon ’ that comes up out of the lavatory pan ( ’ Yi nivir know the minit ’ ) meant that the broad rather lightweight stuff I wrote for these revues had plenty of stronger , more solid , meatier material contrasting with it . |
| 4 | Bishop O'Brien made us feel that we were a very important part of the world-wide Church and he encouraged us for our future as adult members of the Catholic Church . |
| 5 | Before he died , he cursed us for killing his son . |
| 6 | ‘ We had forms to fill in , and he touched us for fags into the bargain , and we had to get water from the well . ’ |
| 7 | What does he take us for , how am I to feed a family of six ? ’ |
| 8 | ‘ Next time he asks us for something , we will find it harder to say no , ’ said one of those present . |
| 9 | Once the Palace had reached the 2nd Division , Bert demonstrated his solid ability , coping admirably with some talented opposing wingers from that Division and , by the time he left us for Orient in January 1967 , he had accumulated well over 200 appearances for the club . |
| 10 | He left us for a glamorous Frenchwoman and he never even sent me a card in all that time . ’ |
| 11 | I could not help thinking , when he criticised us for not participating in European Community efforts on education , that here was the last and most remarkable convert come to the communautaire viewpoint on these matters . |