Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] to him for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now I I remember talking to him for hours once on a programme about education and this was when he first said what we want is teachers to be accountable . |
| 2 | Strange he thought , there seems to be a current fad around about dinosaurs , there was one on top of a bottle of bath oil one of his grandsons had given to him for Christmas and another was perched on the handle of a nail brush in the bathroom . |
| 3 | The disorder that had seemed to him for decades to determine the course of events regrouped itself like a pile of iron filings suddenly organized by a magnet , and he had a flash of optimism when it appeared quite possible that men in the days to come might wish to find out more than concerned them at the moment . |
| 4 | What it means in practice is that just as a wife has no entitlement to supplementary benefit ( SB ) in her own right — her husband must claim for her as his ‘ dependant ’ — so a single woman living with a male lover may be denied SB and required to look to him for support . |
| 5 | It is unnecessary as regards persons whom the husband has not by his previous conduct induced to look to him for payment ; it is ineffectual as regards those who do not happen to see the advertisement . |