Example sentences of "him [prep] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I admire him for remembering the day . |
| 2 | Selkirk 's provost , Tom Henderson , director of a textile dyeing company , berated him for damaging the image of the tweed trade . |
| 3 | Richard Baxter , during the one time he was asked to preach before Oliver Cromwell , had criticised him for weakening the Church by encouraging divisions . |
| 4 | This is why the experts of Jesus ' time criticized him for healing the sick on the Sabbath , accepting social outcasts , or infringing the fine points of the law . |
| 5 | However , even if we can not blame him for murdering the other in his sleep , we might respect him more if he did put himself at a disadvantage by clinging to one of his last disintegrating scraps of morality . |
| 6 | A small boy laughs an unforgivable sin in such a sober and wary atmosphere , his grandad scolds him for destroying the unquiet silence which haunts the underground , he grabs the toy gun clasped in his grandson 's fist and confiscates it after letting it wave foolishly , causing several greatly disturbed heads to turn , he buries into the depths of his duffle coat pocket . |
| 7 | The People attacked him for accepting the freebie during the 1990 Gulf crisis . |
| 8 | The twins had been furious with him for inviting the two evacuees . |
| 9 | No one comes near him for stating the bloody obvious . |
| 10 | I had n't thanked him for doing the walls . |
| 11 | Although he had made it a condition of his NBC appearance that his whereabouts not be disclosed , Neal Miller called next day to say that he had taken over as his handler and to reprimand him for doing the broadcast without permission . |
| 12 | The verdict on whether Mr Lamont will remain as Chancellor remained open last night , with many Tories seeing it as an electoral mistake to raise fuel bills in the run up the next election , while others praised him for tackling the public deficit . |
| 13 | Mr Anderson told the tribunal he could not apply for bad debt relief until 12 months after the debt had arisen while Customs had penalised him for paying the VAT ‘ a mere 16 days late . ’ |
| 14 | Privately , they have backed Lamb and admired him for disclosing the Pakistanis ' ball-scuffing skulduggery . |
| 15 | Indeed , as late as 1638 the lord deputy , Sir Thomas Wentworth ( later first Earl of Strafford , q.v. ) , was strongly critical of him for putting the interests of the Villiers family before those of the Crown , in connection with the Irish customs revenues . |
| 16 | I congratulate the hon. Member for Leyton ( Mr. Cohen ) on his success in securing this debate and thank him for raising the disturbing and important question of the use of knives in crime . |
| 17 | I salute him for having the courage to come off the fence ; though he leaves many of his colleagues still perching there . |
| 18 | She loved him for having the consideration to stop now . |
| 19 | On 5 September last year his girlfriend , Ann Tierney , could not wake him after staying the night with him and he was dead on arrival at Edinburgh Royal Infirmary . |
| 20 | RSPCA inspectors found him after combing the area for an hour following a tip off . |
| 21 | The charges , filed in January 1989 , had accused him of ordering the shooting in 1986 of John O'Connor , an official of the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America [ see p. 36680 ] . |
| 22 | The Court smoked him out and convicted him of supplying the stuff . |
| 23 | He was venomous in his attacks on Mr Patten , accusing him of slamming the door on talks with Beijing . |
| 24 | García had rejected the verdict of a year-long investigation by a special congressional commission which accused him of authorizing the placing of a third of Central Bank reserves ( US$270,000,000 ) into the Panamanian branch of the now discredited Bank of Credit and Commerce International ( BCCI — see p. 38355 ) in return for US$3,000,000 in bribes . |
| 25 | Pitt 's great parliamentary opponent , Charles James Fox and his supporters roundly condemned his profligacy in loans to foreign powers , an obvious but overestimated cause of gold drain , and accused him of bringing the country to the point of bankruptcy . |
| 26 | As the junior Environment Minister , Mr Christopher Chope , wound up for the Government , Mr Soley accused him of ignoring the fact that the agency advised departments and the armed forces on security and vetting of staff . |
| 27 | There is some support for the proposition that such a loan , if made to a person fully capable of repaying the same and , for instance , charged against property in the United Kingdom , gives the taxpayer minimal benefit from the case of O " Leary v McKinlay [ 1991 ] STC 42 where Vinelott J at p51 , dealing with a Schedule E beneficial loan , stated the following : If an employer lends money to an employee free of interest or at a favourable rate of interest and if the employee is free to exploit the money in any manner he chooses his employment can not be said to have been the source of the income derived from the exploitation ; the employer is the source of the money and the taxpayer is assessable to tax under Sch E on the benefit to him of obtaining the loan on the terms on which the loan was made ; but if the loan is repayable on demand that benefit can not be quantified and form the basis of an assessment under Sch E. It is arguable if property is held by a non-resident trust for A for life and B absolutely that if the trustees lend money to A at interest then if A allows the trustees not to pursue him in his capacity as borrower for the interest that no benefit will arise . |
| 28 | The US State Department , while reaffirming its support for Mobutu remaining in power during the period of transition to democracy , also accused him of undermining the reform process and warned against further military attacks on peaceful protesters . |
| 29 | He directed it at Mr Brown , calling him childish and accusing him of launching the sleaziest-ever attacks in US politics . |
| 30 | His arrest was ordered by the Algiers judiciary after the Ministry of Defence accused him of inciting the army to mutiny . |