Example sentences of "[verb] for him [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd been caddying for Ralph Moffatt on the pro circuit and got him through the pre-qualifier at Fairhaven , so I told him I 'd be caddying for him in the Open as I 'd heard nothing from Jack . |
| 2 | Little was done for him in the three years up to his seventeenth birthday when , like so many others , he found companionship and , ironically , the security he craved for by joining the army . |
| 3 | He was retained by the king as one of his serjeants between 1287 and 1293 and is to be found acting for him in the 1287 Gloucestershire eyre and in the northern circuit eyres of 1292–3 as well as in the Common Bench and in the Exchequer . |
| 4 | Donal was married on August 29 and shortly afterwards an appointment was made for him at the Royal Marsden Hospital in London . |
| 5 | He 'd had a new set made for him by the professional but somehow could not get used to them . |
| 6 | He had adopted his slighting manner , he knew , to protect himself from the attraction which she had possessed for him from the first moment that he had seen her . |
| 7 | He was compensated with a pension secured for him by the new lord treasurer , Sir Thomas Osborne ( later Earl of Danby , q.v . ) . |
| 8 | Georgi Kirov was waiting for him at the appointed place and time . |
| 9 | Cranston was waiting for him at the small tavern just outside Aldgate in the Portsoken overlooking the stinking city ditch . |
| 10 | Where the man was , gone or waiting for him behind the next tree , he had no idea . |
| 11 | She told me that just across the road there lived what she described as a mantenuta , a kept woman , whose lover visited her every day : she could be seen waiting for him behind the semi-closed shutters . |
| 12 | After Charlie had finished dressing , he found Sal and Kitty waiting for him by the front door , but he refused to allow them to accompany him to the station , despite their tearful protest . |
| 13 | So he passed over and the trumpets sounded for him on the other side . ’ |
| 14 | From the shops it was a short visit to the launderette , where his week 's supply of dirty washing had been cleaned , pressed and packed for him by the friendly woman who supervised the place . |
| 15 | Forlani , 66 , had on May 17 withdrawn his candidacy for the presidency after up to 60 members of parties participating in the former ruling coalition , including many DC deputies , had failed to vote for him in the fifth , sixth and seventh rounds . |
| 16 | You looked for him in the Green Room , but found only his jacket . |
| 17 | Marion searched for him in the crowded room , and found him at last , talking to Sue 's dad near the window . |
| 18 | She 'd slaved for him for the last seven year , and before that ever since she was born — eight or nine year was it — at the Old Mint ? |
| 19 | Gareth Morgan , his deputy and confidante , waited for him in the large office with windows overlooking the City . |
| 20 | Mr Davidson 's father , Robert Snr , said Mrs Holmes had been working for him for the last eight years . |
| 21 | He chattered at her , sleepy and indignant as she dived for him among the dirty linen , the old letters , a moth-eaten scarf . |