Example sentences of "[art] [noun] for him [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Folly finished the sentence for him in a flat voice that she hardly recognised as being her own . |
| 2 | ‘ Britten had written the part for him as the eldest son , Jaffet , which was a treble , ’ said Graham . |
| 3 | George Knox winning the post for him despite the presence of such strong candidates as Robert Blakewell and Thomas Weaver [ qq.v . ] . |
| 4 | He was in a fix — he had bought two papers and merged them together , and I was n't around , I was in New York , and I did the logo for him in a hurry , but I did n't have time to design a newspaper , nor was it the kind of thing for which he could pay a big design fee , so he described it on the phone and then he faxed me some pages of the existing papers , and I said well what you have to do is look at the old London Times and do that . |
| 5 | Milongo paid tribute to " the extraordinary support " demonstrated by the people for him during the crisis . |
| 6 | Sylvia agreed to work the streets for him on the understanding he would find out what she wanted to know . |
| 7 | I glanced at my watch , found I had forgotten to adjust it and read the time for him from the digital clock at the base of the instrument panel . |
| 8 | ‘ It should not be so difficult a decision for him in the best interests of an organisation in which he believes and for which I know he has worked so hard . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ It should not be so difficult a decision for him in the best interests of an organisation in which he believes and for which I know he has worked so hard . ’ |
| 10 | In 1696 Lowther of Lowther , tired of contesting elections , employed his cousin to seek a viscountcy for him from the king . |
| 11 | A first round victory caught everyone 's attention , and Swift kept close tabs on him for the rest of the year , even fielding a car for him in the 25th anniversary race at Silverstone and again in the Irish Festival . |
| 12 | I have served a place for him at the head of the queue to buy shares in the privatised NIE . |
| 13 | There was unlikely to be a place for him in a reconstituted kingdom of Aquitaine that included Septimania and was ruled by Charles the Bald . |
| 14 | On the other hand , if the half-pay officer was trying to maintain an impoverished existence as an unwanted guest in the home of a brother , he ( and the brother ) could become very anxious to secure a place for him in an active formation , in spite of the poor pay and poorer prospects . |
| 15 | Although Wales manager Terry Yorath hails the Manchester United winger as the most brilliant teenager in Britain , he can find no room for him in the starting line-up against Belgium . |
| 16 | There seemed no place for him in the context of an England team battling to wipe out a one goal deficit against a reeling American side in Foxboro . |
| 17 | The past rejections he had been able to live with ; there was always the hope that one day , sooner or later , there would be a vacancy for him within the Russian Space Programme . |
| 18 | I decided to rent a room for him in a house near ours , where I thought he would be safe for the moment . |
| 19 | Tom met him outside at lunchtime as there were no classes for him in the afternoon . |
| 20 | There were no messages for him at the desk . |
| 21 | Ponteus Pilot should be a banker for him in the Members race , and his other prospects include Seven of Diamonds in the Open . |
| 22 | Edward is involved in France and I can see no profit for him in the death of an ally . |
| 23 | He felt as though there were a space for him in the universe , and he exactly filled it . |
| 24 | Could there be a warning for him in the circumstances of Tubby 's decline ? |
| 25 | By mid-morning Leon Kennedy had not arrived down so Rosen left a letter for him on the hall table and returned to London . |
| 26 | Ferdinando surprised her by having someone write a letter for him towards the end of March which made it plain that Mrs Browning had fared no better in Rome than in Siena and was very ill . |
| 27 | Evening after evening passed by without Annie the postmistress finding a letter for him in the grey bag the mail van brought in . |
| 28 | They were delighted and arranged a reception for him in a studio formerly occupied by Chagall , who had left France before the war to go back to Russia to get married . |
| 29 | She flirted outrageously , promising that she would secure an interview for him with the Queen but she always seemed to fail . |
| 30 | The distinctive moods of the rich and various landscapes which crowded near to Stowey were becoming for Coleridge almost a reflex of his own moods and thoughts — the broad uplands of the Quantock Hills a counterpoint to the speculative power of a mind ‘ habituated to the vast ’ , the lowland villages an expression for him of the loving companionship of friends and family , the hidden dell , where the voice of nature sounded in the waterfall , a retreat by turns comforting and mysterious to serve his recurrent longing for escape . |