Example sentences of "him for an [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We do n't know what he 's like yet — would n't it be better to ask him for an odd Sunday first before we let ourselves in for a course of sermons ? ’ |
| 2 | In 1973 a Mossad hit squad went to Norway and murdered an innocent Moroccan mistaking him for an alleged Arab terrorist . |
| 3 | Instead Barclays asked him for an extra £15 commission on his traveller 's cheques . |
| 4 | Frau Nordern gazed at him for an icy moment then stalked into the bedroom . |
| 5 | His guardian uncles intended him for an academic career , and his brother Christopher , presumably of similar intelligence and attainment , later became Master of Trinity . |
| 6 | Until Vic and Robyn 's lives coincide , when she goes to ‘ shadow ’ him for an improbable Industry Year project , the viewer needs as much information as possible . |
| 7 | He was asking me to respect him for an astute and informed observer , an impartial and honest man . |
| 8 | but then you left him for an American carpenter . |
| 9 | And after last night 's performance of Hamlet , some of his friends from the theatre had come back with him for an informal reading of their next play . |