Example sentences of "him [adv] for [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Bristol students will remember him most for his teaching . |
| 2 | Ranulf was full of himself , rather peeved that his master did not thank him properly for his rescue , making sly references to his own archery . |
| 3 | ‘ He 's in a funny mood today , and I do n't feel I 've thanked him properly for his Christmas present . ’ |
| 4 | Cheap , but quite pretty , she thought , thanking him charmingly for his delightful gift . |
| 5 | If he was incapable and vomiting and so on , you 'd take him in for his own consideration . |
| 6 | Without him , Arthur Porritt later recalled , ‘ the momentum of the movement swiftly spent itself ’ and although many had criticized him greatly for his involvement in Liberal party manoeuvrings ( which will be discussed in Chapter 9 ) , all recognized his gift of organization , something which ‘ amounted to genius ’ . |
| 7 | I admired him greatly for his bravery and his cheerfulness . |
| 8 | The students from that time remembered a man with a sharp sense of the ridiculous ; who ragged them but was too shy to be intimate with them though they liked him much for his friendliness and his humour ; who was famous for long , sudden , and embarrassing silences ; who was so eccentric that none of them believed that he could later be a man of distinction in England or his Church ; a man who loved theology — they never met anywhere else a man who so loved theology , and who regarded theology as the highest intellectual activity for humanity ; a fierce defender of liberty of opinion , for Marxists as for anyone else ; whose principal theme was the glory of God , and who was evidently touched by his ideas of Plato ; who did not give the impression of a mind of exceptional ability — there was not enough knife in the mind — but who gave the impression of being an exceptional person ; who disturbed other people 's prayers in chapel with convulsive fidgets and sudden face-rubbings — they regarded him as tense in his devotions and were afraid of a nervous breakdown ; who had a manifest and rare mystical sense of the immediate presence of God , a presence so brilliant that it could almost overpower . |
| 9 | Men were wrong about Prince Richard ; women loved him not for his strength , but for his weakness , which was well hidden . |
| 10 | The offering of such guidelines or suggestions does not in any way detract from the professional integrity of the teacher , who must then select what suits him best for his own purposes , but there will be few teachers who will have had the time or the imagination to think of all of them . |
| 11 | Middlesex dropped Ramprakash for the next championship match against Hampshire at Southampton but recalled him yesterday for their game against Sussex at Hove . |
| 12 | We thank him sincerely for his generous gesture in allowing this debate to take place . |
| 13 | It felt too much as if she was shunting him off for her own convenience , even though she knew that it was the only sane and sensible thing to do . |
| 14 | Breaking the three-generational run of Lester Knox Colemans , his sons , Joshua and Chad , were born on 16 September 1989 , at about the same time as the DIA decided to dust him off for his next assignment . |
| 15 | Jack persuaded Ducrocq to take him up for his first real flight , from that moment Jack knew that speed on the ground was no longer enough . |
| 16 | All who knew Victor respected him both for his depth of knowledge of VAT , particularly in the land and property area , and for the innate wisdom and common sense he showed in advising his many friends and clients . |
| 17 | It positioned him correctly for his market . |
| 18 | I would rather him play first-team football with Scarborough than bring him back for our Reserves . ’ |
| 19 | She would have liked to pay him back for his earlier tone by pretending a permanent disability . |
| 20 | When you take him out for his first walk on the lead , it is always nicer if an older dog accompanies you . |
| 21 | I felt that this conversation was adding little to my , or my listeners ' , knowledge of how to buy a coffin , so I thanked him kindly for his time and said goodbye . |
| 22 | ‘ Because you ca n't face the truth that we are falling in love yet again ? ’ he suggested so calmly that she wanted to slap him hard for his change of mood . |
| 23 | It all made him late for her Christmas lunch . |
| 24 | I hope that I shall not embarrass the Minister if I commend him again for his imaginative efforts and the time that he has spent abroad trying to develop inward investment . |
| 25 | When Mrs Funnell had visited him , she had upbraided him firmly for his deception and he , in his most plaintive voice , had said , ‘ I 'm a man , and it was either taking a decent woman or resorting to casual encounters . |
| 26 | She loved him neither for his even disposition or vast estate — for neither could he offer — and saw him through many tempestuous years of attempts to influence bands and musicians to the floaty sounds that have now met such brilliant commercial success . |
| 27 | He praises him too for his advocacy of careful and methodical procedures based on careful consideration of individual cases . |