Example sentences of "have [vb pp] him for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now that MPs have committed him for trial for allegedly ordering telephone-tapping and accepting bribes , he describes the three months of coalition government as ‘ a lamentable political parenthesis ’ . |
| 2 | His passionate compression , luxuriant sound , and eclectic mixture of Anglo-Saxon , Latinate , and Celtic diction have made him for many readers both the greatest of Victorians and the first of the moderns . |
| 3 | Many footballers have matched him for decadence but few have lived out their decline quite as publicly as Slim Jim . |
| 4 | ‘ We have watched him for three and a half years and see nothing . |
| 5 | Ask many who have known him for years , and they will say that he looks most comfortable at his annual visit to the Renaissance Weekend at Hilton Head Island over the New Year holiday . |
| 6 | Jon is a ‘ New Age Traveller ’ and I have known him for two years . |
| 7 | Does the Minister accept that although some of us may have a disagreement with Bruce Millan , we have known him for many years and we know that he has always been , and is , punctilious in the exercise of his duties ? |
| 8 | It was an occasion filled with memories of a life time in the carpet business , highlighted with speeches by Ralph Ellis , Rod Turnbull , Steve Higgins and from customers who have known him for a long time . |
| 9 | I have followed him for a long time and his work just gets better and better . |
| 10 | Some have criticised him for not doing more to help urban California , where 80% of Latinos live . |
| 11 | We have liked him for being into free speech and free love , and for what he has to say about convergences of the two , and about the curbs which revolution and its regimes has placed on them . |
| 12 | He said , but he said it does n't give us the excuse of not paying the invoices on time , and he said erm I have warned him for it this morning and he said he will process it , and he said the cheque will be in the post here on Monday . |
| 13 | Now Mr Onanuga 's bosses have suspended him for making up the whole story about Mr Lamont . |
| 14 | Smith had Picnic 's full co-operation when winning last week 's leading showjumper of the year title at Wembley , making a timely impression on the selectors who have chosen him for the British team . |