Sentence examples for adopted him for from inspiring English sources

Scouring local shelters, he found a dog that was about to be euthanized — "the only beige-colored dog I'd seen all day" — and adopted him for seven dollars.

No one would mistake "The Blind Side," John Lee Hancock's squeaky-clean tale of the teen-aged Michael Oher and the wealthy Southern family that sheltered, nurtured, and adopted him, for a liberal screed.

It was the final moment of mutual attentiveness begun the day I'd adopted him from Friends for Pets a decade earlier.

Our company adopted him, we'd see him for all major events, he would come, or we would take him out and spoil him lavishly.

"Armchair psychologists will say that when John Edwards came along, I adopted him as a substitute for my father," Mr. Young writes in "The Politician," his mind-boggling book about the sheer freakiness of Mr. Edwards's hubris, ambition and dishonesty.

He became speaker in 2007, and Civic Platform adopted him as its candidate for the presidential elections due in the autumn of 2010.

Set in Las Vegas, Los Angeles and Palm Springs, the film chronicles the men's relationship as Liberace picks up and possesses Mr. Thorson, has him cosmetically altered in his image and legally adopts him before discarding him for a younger model.

Now, for the fourth time in a little over a decade, the nation's best known newt fancier is asking the Labour Party to adopt him as their candidate for the London mayoral election.

Give your foster pet one last pet, thank his new owner for adopting him, and begin again!

Joan thereupon called on Alfonso V the Magnanimous of Aragon for aid, adopting him as her heir.

You were adopted by him for a reason you don't know what that reason is, but he's going to be taking you around.