Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [prep] him for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Claudia shivered ; her twin was n't alone in her fear , but Dana would n't be able to stand up to him for a moment . |
| 2 | I probably wo n't catch up with him for an hour or more , but when I do , people will be astounded to learn his identity . ’ |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | By contrast , he did inherit a destructive family situation which weighed heavily on him for the rest of his life . |
| 5 | You seem to have impressed our number-one driver as well , because he too has asked if you could be released to work closely with him for the rest of the season . |
| 6 | Maggie added : ‘ Keith sees Rose whenever he wants , either by popping in here or she goes over to him for the day . ’ |
| 7 | It came home to him for the first time that what had seemed to him a trivial event , a stupid joke , was something genuinely much bigger to Andrus . |
| 8 | He laid them out like they were a pack of cards spread out around him for a game of patience . |
| 9 | Well Chris says he 's got ta keep in with him for a little while , he said he |
| 10 | The children skipped along with him for a few yards and he saw how beguiling their faces were , the large dark eyes , the straggle of thick black hair , the earnest looks of desperate innocence . |
| 11 | She had dinner with Ben and Maggie Bradshaw , and Oliver and Bron Henderson had a party which she attended , although she ended up bumping into Jack as she might have known she would , and going home with him for the night . |
| 12 | Oh , poor Travis , Leith thought , her sympathies going out to him for the terrible time he was having . |
| 13 | She made up to him for the son he had never had , the wife who had left him , even the dull Selene , who would never come to anything . |
| 14 | I walked back behind him for the last several hundred yards , and was shocked at the sheer , mindless , bestial ferocity of the crowd . |
| 15 | Lou went along with him for every show , with a place always reserved for her in the front row . |
| 16 | I guessed you were from the first , and the fact that you could quite happily and openly go away with him for a weekend everyone would know about confirmed that I was right . |
| 17 | Dana could n't stand up to him for a moment . ’ |
| 18 | She stared wordlessly at him for a moment , her eyes wide with dismay . |
| 19 | I looked up at him for a second , then smiled . |
| 20 | ‘ I went out with him for a year and a half , ’ she replies . |
| 21 | No my friend says my friend 's boyfriend knows and she went out with him for a , like a year and he was , she was . |
| 22 | Greg had rung Helen from London to tell her when he would be arriving in Manchester , and she had promised to work late and go out with him for a meal . |
| 23 | She went around with him for a while . |
| 24 | Cameron looked steadily at him for a while until Stewart turned his head with a little toss and swallowed down his wine . |
| 25 | But Kirk 's reputation went ahead of him for a few years to come . |
| 26 | Walter Carew slowly raised himself upright in the chair and stared stonily at him for a full ten seconds without uttering a word . |
| 27 | He 's not very worried about the law yet , because there 's no reason they should get on to him for a while . |
| 28 | Maybe she 'd play along with him for a while . |
| 29 | There 's no hurry for that now that the money 's been cut back , Mr Silver can go on economising on space and heat and lighting for his twelve women workers for a good few years yet , and in any case , no-one 's been round to check up on him for a long time now . |
| 30 | ‘ Which must mean that , regardless of the fact that he 's so wound up over you he ca n't think straight , you 're only playing around with him for the pure hell of it . ’ |