Example sentences of "[vb pp] for him [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | After attempting to speak to his ex-girl friend on the telephone and finding she was out he decided to have another drink , and then started to think about taking some tablets which his GP had prescribed for him at the time when his girl friend had left him . |
2 | He had a picture in his mind of the layout of passage , stairs and landing , a picture unwittingly painted for him by the man who had retrieved his wallet . |
3 | He feared that another show , arranged for him through the Lefevre Gallery , at Durlacher Bros , 11 East 57th Street , New York , would also have to be delayed as by the end of the summer he had not done enough work . |
4 | He has such great familiarity with the keyboard that when it is hidden for him by a cloth spread over it , he plays on this cloth with the same speed and the same precision . |
5 | FALKLANDS war hero Simon Weston is to tackle an 800-mile journey in America on a £2,000 cycle specially designed for him by the Lotus car company . |
6 | At the end , you get to be inside Richie 's head as he righteously kicks the poor woman to death after she 's come for him with a hatchet in each hand . |
7 | Huy had returned to his house in order to work out a way of getting into the brothel known by the impious name of the Glory of Set — Nebamun had been right , he found that he simply could not let the whole thing drop , and now there was a friend 's death to be avenged — when the message had come for him from the palace compound . |
8 | 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 . |
9 | Posing as a Lebanese cocaine buyer , he had flown to Los Angeles with a suitcase full of counterfeit US currency provided by DEA Nicosia and checked into a room booked for him by the DEA at the Sheraton Universal hotel . |
10 | But you 'd got hold of him , and you 'd squeezed him till the pips rattled , and you 'd done for him as a man . |
11 | 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 . |
12 | The particulars must also be confirmed by or on behalf of the clearing member , and again this is usually done for him by the exchange 's electronic system . |
13 | It is conceivable , too , that the Sihtric dux who witnesses three of Cnut 's charters may be the Dublin monarch Sihtric Silkbeard , who used dies evidently made for him in the mint at Chester to strike pennies naming him king of the Irish and modelled on Cnut 's Quatrefoil type . |
14 | I told myself he might have meant us to meet at the Festival , so I went along there and searched for him in the crowd . ’ |
15 | For that reason , he has omitted his more fragile or delicate works in favour of robustness , playing with various permutations in a 1:20 model built for him by the Richard Rogers Partnership . |
16 | He was not aware of any post being sought for him by the Government and , if offered one , would have turned it down . |
17 | This he etched in outline on a copper plate , and a print was immediately prepared for him on a piece of drawing-paper . |
18 | 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 . |
19 | On the landing , looking out over the High Street , Aziz , wearing new brown overalls bought for him by the headmaster , seemed to be waving to his friend . |
20 | The door was opened for him by a secretary who sat alone in a corner . |
21 | Today a team of friends played for him against the Brize Norton Club , before the match he walked the boundary with the great grandson of a former team mate . |
22 | It was not until a few weeks after her father had been installed that Dorothy began to realize the fortitude with which her mother had cared for him over the years . |
23 | The Minister of Labour , Ernest Bevin , received a message which he had decoded for him in a Leeds hotel by Albert Heal , a trade union leader who had run a pre-war escape route for German socialists that still had watertight communications . |
24 | By the summer , after a trial period , he was doing well , and the necessary clothing was provided for him by the Union . |
25 | His structure is provided for him by the original . |
26 | ( Otto had evidently coped for him in the past . ) |
27 | In Nicholson v. Harper ( 1895 ) A owned some goods stored for him at a warehouse . |
28 | Old Aaron Kleiber built up a little tailoring business , and for a time Ruth had worked for him as a seamstress , together with Sarah Vogel , another immigrant , and Rosie O'Dell , Connor and Sean 's half-sister . |
29 | Ms Starnes , who had once worked for him in the news department of WSGN Radio in Birmingham , Alabama , agreed at once that he should cover pending events in Libya for Mutual Radio and promised to get the necessary credentials to him within 48 hours . |
30 | The loud calls for the author , by a curious irony , were taken for him by the U.S. ambassador . |