Example sentences of "him [adv prt] for [art] " in BNC.
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1 | The Campbells steamer his mother had once taken him on for a day trip to Ilfracombe . |
2 | He found another vessel whose captain ( a Scot ) was prepared to sign him on for the voyage to New York . |
3 | When I got home , I kept him in for a while , then , ashtray at the ready , let him loose for another try . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | She thanked him and waited while David invited him in for a cup of tea . |
6 | You invited him in for a glass of sherry to ask him if you could borrow his bicycle , and I came too . ’ |
7 | " I think it would be safer to keep him in for a bit longer . " |
8 | If Daddy was home , she 'd invite him in for a coffee and a clean-up . |
9 | I asked him in for a break . |
10 | So they kept him in for a cat instead , but Jessie wanted a , then Jessie , she could 've just love a fluffy white , so . |
11 | Probably because it was a way of roping him in for the future , Malcolm invited him down to a few rehearsals . |
12 | But on what grounds will a teacher identify a pupil as F , and put him in for the F exam ? |
13 | I 've put the belt in for when he 's bad and I 've sewn him in for the winter . |
14 | I usually work him in for an hour , but when I 'm riding him around in the arena before the bell goes , I 'm still thinking , ‘ How on earth am I going to get this thing up the centre line ? ’ because he 's gawping at everything , but then I give him a jolly good boot and we get on with it … ’ |
15 | 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 . |
16 | We have n't put him down for a nursery school- ! |
17 | A left-hook hurt Ekubia in the sixth round , and then another put him down for a count of nine . |
18 | He will inundate us with charters — and all because London Transport turned him down for a job . |
19 | 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 . ’ |
20 | 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 ! |
21 | He might not have been able to dodge the water , but they 'd never pinned him down for the Instruction . |
22 | You write to an imaginary friend , you 're inviting him down for the summer holidays and you say all that , all about the sort of things that you 're planning to do with them , make it up |
23 | Wharton has a big-money fight with Sheffield 's Fidel Castro , formerly Slugger O'Toole , with his title and Castro 's British title on the line , after producing awesome punching that cut Carr , put him down for an eight count and forced referee Dave Parris step in after 2min 7sec . |
24 | So , hoisting her bag over her shoulder with an element of pride that for a brief moment made her lose sight of how important it was to try and pin him down for an interview , she made for the door . |
25 | Let it carry him along for a bit longer . |
26 | I 'd take him along for a veterinary verdict on these possibilities and take it from there . |
27 | Or were you just stringing him along for the fun of it ? ’ |
28 | 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 . |
29 | Woody Allen passed him over for a musical . |
30 | Iain had invited him over for a meal . |