Example sentences of "him for [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nothing could have prepared him for its response . |
| 2 | They may not have enthused him for their particular brand of political idealism , but they certainly sowed seeds of great potential musically . |
| 3 | The boys at school were sure to snigger at him behind his back , and the Irishman and his rough friends would have one more excuse to belittle him for their own amusement . |
| 4 | So they returned each to his own country , blessing him for their deliverance , and magnifying his great bounty ; and forthwith they sent him tribute and acknowledged themselves to be his vassals . |
| 5 | Both districts selected him for their under-21 practice matches in January , but the youngster , who played for Ayr while he was still at Kyle Academy , opted for his home district , Glasgow . |
| 6 | Schmeichel seemed certain to miss Monday ‘ s Premier League match at Southampton because Denmark need him for their game in Latvia on Wednesday . |
| 7 | The second , and the one with which he is still struggling , required him to search for a means of making the pupils less dependent on him for their mathematics . |
| 8 | It was clear to me that they had spared him in order to groom him for their own uses . |
| 9 | They depended upon him for their pleasure , they admired him because he had a skill they did not , they liked him because he was charming and energetic , but they did not treat him as their equal . |
| 10 | Many of the clients who depended on him for their pensions have had to go back to work after their life savings were wiped out . |
| 11 | Not that the Irish manager , Noel Murphy , has too many doubts : ‘ If only the Irish selectors had chosen him for their second game instead of bringing him in halfway through the campaign , he would be inked in by now . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ Great credit is due to Mr Peterken and the team he has gathered around him for their initiative and vision about finance . |
| 13 | The young woman remembers how her mother would leave home at 5am day after day , and wait in the Marmoura forest near where the King used to play golf in an effort to plead with him for her husband 's life . |
| 14 | Ellen was sure now that she had him for her own and most likely thought it a fair return for her investment of time and trouble . |
| 15 | In his book Rest Days Hutton Webster has drawn attention to the passage in 2 Kings 4 : 23 , describing how , when the Shunammite woman wanted to go to the prophet Elijah to beg him for her son 's life to be restored , her husband objected , saying ‘ Wherefore wilt thou go to him today ? |
| 16 | And when the King thought it a fit season , he spake to him and said , that Doña Ximena Gomez , the daughter of the Count whom he had slain , had come to ask him for her husband , and would forgive him her father 's death ; wherefore he besought him to think it good to take her to be his wife , in which case he would show him great favour . |
| 17 | At least , she could understand him for her uncle , later to be the 6th Duke , was deaf as well . |
| 18 | ‘ No names , no pack drill , but I know somebody who works for her and she was saying that Diana will be jolly pleased to have a lump sum to spend instead of having to go to him for her money . |
| 19 | If your fuel bill debt is in the name of your landlord , and you pay him for your electricity or gas , you should let your fuel supplier and local council know this is the case . |
| 20 | She looked away and Trent thought for a moment that she would leave it alone , but then she looked back and asked quickly , to get it out , ‘ Did your mother leave him for your father ? ’ |
| 21 | You are responsible to him for your actions . ’ |
| 22 | Mr David Bernstein was not the subject of investigation or prosecution and we apologize to him for our error . |
| 23 | Anyway , whatever I may have thought about his methods of bringing it about , I 'll always be grateful to him for my wife ! ’ |
| 24 | ‘ Twenty-four years old he was when I found him in the provost 's prison in Paris , and paid his fine to get him for my own , him and that foster-brother of his whom you know well . ’ |
| 25 | Even Frank Dick , the coach close enough to him to be the one he ultimately asked to be with him for his operation , did not have an inkling until the competition in France that Thompson had not high-jumped in training all year . |
| 26 | I declined his offer of another brandy , made my excuses , and thanking him for his hospitality I left by the back door . |
| 27 | When the vicar got a new bishop who was Anglo-Catholic he appealed to him for his sanction , in the hope that the bishop 's approval would make up for the lack of faculty . |
| 28 | The Cambridge deputy orator of 1957 commended him for his ecumenical work , and as the tireless pastor of the northern province , and made no mention of his academic originality — perhaps the ghost of Bethune-Baker still peeped through a window of the Senate House . |
| 29 | In return his father rages at him for his inability to become a ‘ real ’ man , and demands as the only acceptable proof that Lucio has regained his masculinity that he attack the very next man he sees and sexually assault the first woman ( iv . |
| 30 | A year before his death , Charles had written to Lord Mountbatten , once again thanking him for his help . |