Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] for him [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had left and walked back to the hotel , and by the time he reached it the police were waiting for him in the lobby . |
| 2 | Ranulf and Dame Agatha were waiting for him near the Galilee Gate , the young nun apparently enjoying an account of one of his manservant 's many escapades in London . |
| 3 | It was partly because he got a weird buzz out of scaring himself half to death , and partly because he felt it was a kind of exorcism , to convince him he had control over his fears — and the horrors that were waiting for him round the corner of sleep . |
| 4 | The loud calls for the author , by a curious irony , were taken for him by the U.S. ambassador . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Donal was married on August 29 and shortly afterwards an appointment was made for him at the Royal Marsden Hospital in London . |
| 8 | But he was confronted by an ecstatic welcome from his mother , who was waiting for him on the doorstep . |
| 9 | So the next morning she went to Rouen station , and when her son , still wearing a fresh crust of pride and sex , got off the train , she was waiting for him on the platform . |
| 10 | Beryl Garland was waiting for him on the landing , a lean , bony woman with uncared-for greying hair , a pallid complexion blotched with an unnatural pink , and restless suspicious eyes . |
| 11 | The Prince was waiting for him on the terrace of the Hotel Continental , sitting by himself and looking bored . |
| 12 | Tom was waiting for him at the bottom . |
| 13 | Georgi Kirov was waiting for him at the appointed place and time . |
| 14 | Hasan was waiting for him at the top of the stairs , and , as soon as he heard his guardian 's tread , the little boy sat up , sniffed the air and stretched out his hands like a cat , waking after sleep . |
| 15 | Cranston was waiting for him at the small tavern just outside Aldgate in the Portsoken overlooking the stinking city ditch . |
| 16 | The driver of the truck sent to meet Charles and his baggage at the railhead south of Arras , had told him that Lord Christopher — Charles did n't ask the surname — was waiting for him in the Officers ' Mess of 2nd Grenadiers . |
| 17 | The ice crown was waiting for him in the city , protected only by the ghosts . |
| 18 | She was waiting for him in the apartment . |
| 19 | Curtis , the local CID sergeant , was waiting for him in the police station . |
| 20 | Lewis Luther was there within five minutes , and I was waiting for him in the foyer by Purvis 's desk . |
| 21 | Dalziel 's car was waiting for him by the exit . |
| 22 | By the summer , after a trial period , he was doing well , and the necessary clothing was provided for him by the Union . |