Example sentences of "[vb past] been [verb] for him [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | 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 . |
2 | Ken told the story as though it had been scripted for him for Hancock 's Half Hour . |
3 | The suit had been tailored for him in London , at a cost of some one hundred and fifty guineas — not by Edouard de Chavigny 's own tailors , Gieves of Savile Row , but by another man who could do a cheaper , and passable , imitation . |
4 | A specially constructed harness had been devised for him in one of the clinically white rooms where analysis was conducted . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | It was as if she had been waiting for him for all these years . |
7 | Gravier 's wife and child and parents had been waiting for him at Acapulco . |
8 | Although the citadel had been rebuilt by the Emperor Gia Long in 1802 , its palaces and temples had been designed and constructed faithfully in the style favoured by China 's Ming emperors and at the entrance to the Dai Noi , the Imperial City itself , Tran Van Hieu had been waiting for him in the shadow of the Ngo Mon , the " Bull Gate " roofed in gold tiles like the Gate of Heavenly Peace in Peking . |
9 | Mr Davidson 's father , Robert Snr , said Mrs Holmes had been working for him for the last eight years . |
10 | And we and then we had been working for him for about ten or eleven years on this contract that he had for us . |
11 | Roy had been working for him since three weeks after his wedding , and he hated it . |