Example sentences of "[v-ing] for him [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 're looking for him on the moors . ’ |
| 2 | Nobody would think of looking for him in the Channel Islands . |
| 3 | It was an hour before he was discovered missing and we spent the rest of the afternoon searching for him in the woods and plains surrounding the house . |
| 4 | As a result , a patient can relate to one group of staff during the waking hours , and knows that the same staff will be caring for him during the night period . |
| 5 | With Alan Leonard leading for him in the pairs semi-final , Graham got off to a 6-0 lead after five ends but Talbot and Nutt came storming back to open a 12-8 lead after 15 ends and after that never really looked like losing . |
| 6 | After he opened in Twelfth Night , Arthur was hissed by a crowd of women waiting for him outside the stage door . |
| 7 | I would be waiting for him outside the room and would suggest that he too withdraw a minor claim ; then add a new demand . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Sammy was yapping and jumping up and down , waiting for him at the bottom . |
| 10 | Tom was waiting for him at the bottom . |
| 11 | ‘ Your man 's a faceless pig to most people out on the streets , ’ said Hogan nastily , as Cowley led the way through the swing doors of the Ministry building , and hurried towards his chauffeur driven car , waiting for him at the bottom of the steps . |
| 12 | But they 're waiting for him at the telecottage , a converted school which is due to run out of HIE and BT funding soon and is aiming to become a profitable business , specialising in desk-top publishing , graphic design and printing . |
| 13 | They would be waiting for him at the train 's next scheduled stop , the guard would see to that . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | But he was confronted by an ecstatic welcome from his mother , who was waiting for him on the doorstep . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The Prince was waiting for him on the terrace of the Hotel Continental , sitting by himself and looking bored . |
| 18 | Everything had been going so well this time ; leaving Glasgow on Saturday anticipation had been high , Amanda had even been waiting for him on the pavement outside her flat . |
| 19 | He had n't contacted her since that early-morning call yesterday , and she wondered if he truly expected her to sit here , simply waiting for him like the princess in the tower . |
| 20 | Suddenly he had a vision of the Worm , coil upon coil , waiting for him behind the door in the dark . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | She was waiting for him in the apartment . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Lewis Luther was there within five minutes , and I was waiting for him in the foyer by Purvis 's desk . |
| 26 | Curtis , the local CID sergeant , was waiting for him in the police station . |
| 27 | Waiting for him in the studio seven people are busy setting up the camera and lights and unwrapping white plaster pillars and an assortment of very beautiful chairs and tables . |
| 28 | He envied Boxer Sullivan waiting for him in the farmhouse , as like as not with a bottle of beer in front of him or at the very least a cup of tea . |
| 29 | The ice crown was waiting for him in the city , protected only by the ghosts . |
| 30 | 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 . |