Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] for him [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 There was no time for him to get up the steps and past the door before it opened and deadly talons reached for him in the darkness .
2 It is a matter of dispute how they parted ; friends of Hayward suggest that Eliot left Carlyle Mansions on the morning of the marriage , leaving only a note of explanation behind — or , even , that he told Hayward as the taxi waited for him in the street below .
3 But his baptism , administered to him by another , sealing physically upon him the objectiveness of what Christ did for him on the cross , that was indeed a ground of assurance .
4 Yo yo you knew your clubman was coming , you 've stayed in and that is how our local clubman who is now dead , Mr became a councillor because naturally , people voted for him against the Conservative because he was someone they knew , someone like as came you know .
5 Marion searched for him in the crowded room , and found him at last , talking to Sue 's dad near the window .
6 The fate of Mirabeau , for instance , would have been sealed by the lack of sympathy felt for him by the people , on account of their irritation with the Court 's defence of the old order .
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