Example sentences of "[verb] for him [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | But , Father , I never meant to kill , when I slipped out alone , and went to wait for him on the path by which I knew he must return . |
2 | After attempting to speak to his ex-girl friend on the telephone and finding she was out he decided to have another drink , and then started to think about taking some tablets which his GP had prescribed for him at the time when his girl friend had left him . |
3 | He had a picture in his mind of the layout of passage , stairs and landing , a picture unwittingly painted for him by the man who had retrieved his wallet . |
4 | He feared that another show , arranged for him through the Lefevre Gallery , at Durlacher Bros , 11 East 57th Street , New York , would also have to be delayed as by the end of the summer he had not done enough work . |
5 | Mother cared for him with a gentleness born out of genuine relief at still having him to care for . |
6 | He has such great familiarity with the keyboard that when it is hidden for him by a cloth spread over it , he plays on this cloth with the same speed and the same precision . |
7 | After the overthrow of Avitus in 456 Majorian had to use force to bring the Visigoths into line , but thereafter they fought for him against the Sueves in Spain . |
8 | Something made for him in the darkness and struck him a violent blow just under the knee . |
9 | FALKLANDS war hero Simon Weston is to tackle an 800-mile journey in America on a £2,000 cycle specially designed for him by the Lotus car company . |
10 | At the end , you get to be inside Richie 's head as he righteously kicks the poor woman to death after she 's come for him with a hatchet in each hand . |
11 | Huy had returned to his house in order to work out a way of getting into the brothel known by the impious name of the Glory of Set — Nebamun had been right , he found that he simply could not let the whole thing drop , and now there was a friend 's death to be avenged — when the message had come for him from the palace compound . |
12 | If he was not at the reception hopper grizzleys , it is quite probable that she would wait for him at the entrance to Deep Level . |
13 | Never mind , I 'll wait for him in the car . ’ |
14 | He often went out alone , Italian style , and Jeanne would wait for him in the street after the cafés closed . |
15 | I tell you , one night , if we knew he was coming , we would wait for him round the back and pitch him down the falls ! ’ |
16 | Beside him sat a man of such immense proportions that Eddie Stratton wondered how he could ever fit into the seat that had been booked for him on the flight to Heathrow , scheduled to leave in forty minutes ' time . |
17 | Posing as a Lebanese cocaine buyer , he had flown to Los Angeles with a suitcase full of counterfeit US currency provided by DEA Nicosia and checked into a room booked for him by the DEA at the Sheraton Universal hotel . |
18 | Uncle Tommy , along with the Fawcetts and John Thwaites from High Birk Hatt , used to work for him during the grouse season . |
19 | But you 'd got hold of him , and you 'd squeezed him till the pips rattled , and you 'd done for him as a man . |
20 | Much of McQueen 's acting was done for him by the make-up of Charles Schram , who effectively ages him over his years of solitary confinement . |
21 | The particulars must also be confirmed by or on behalf of the clearing member , and again this is usually done for him by the exchange 's electronic system . |
22 | It is conceivable , too , that the Sihtric dux who witnesses three of Cnut 's charters may be the Dublin monarch Sihtric Silkbeard , who used dies evidently made for him in the mint at Chester to strike pennies naming him king of the Irish and modelled on Cnut 's Quatrefoil type . |
23 | I told myself he might have meant us to meet at the Festival , so I went along there and searched for him in the crowd . ’ |
24 | They 're looking for him on the moors . ’ |
25 | Nobody would think of looking for him in the Channel Islands . |
26 | For that reason , he has omitted his more fragile or delicate works in favour of robustness , playing with various permutations in a 1:20 model built for him by the Richard Rogers Partnership . |
27 | He was not aware of any post being sought for him by the Government and , if offered one , would have turned it down . |
28 | This he etched in outline on a copper plate , and a print was immediately prepared for him on a piece of drawing-paper . |
29 | It was an hour before he was discovered missing and we spent the rest of the afternoon searching for him in the woods and plains surrounding the house . |
30 | From all that he heard , it was clear that Gaddafi 's position had been secured for him in a way that his palace guard and secret police could never have managed on their own . |