Example sentences of "be [verb] for he [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | They 're looking for him on the moors . ’ |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | I 'd been caddying for Ralph Moffatt on the pro circuit and got him through the pre-qualifier at Fairhaven , so I told him I 'd be caddying for him in the Open as I 'd heard nothing from Jack . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | They would be waiting for him at the train 's next scheduled stop , the guard would see to that . |
| 9 | I would be waiting for him outside the room and would suggest that he too withdraw a minor claim ; then add a new demand . |
| 10 | I 'll never be mistaken for him in the street then . |
| 11 | He was so modest , reticent , and reserved that his paper on his voyage of 1880 , given at the Royal Geographical Society , had to be read for him by the secretary . |
| 12 | He was not aware of any post being sought for him by the Government and , if offered one , would have turned it down . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The loud calls for the author , by a curious irony , were taken for him by the U.S. ambassador . |
| 17 | His structure is provided for him by the original . |
| 18 | It 's cos he 's working for him at the moment money . |
| 19 | They are changed for him by the eagles who come and take him in his sleep to a new world — which Sam , with a resurrected Gandalf in front of him , very nearly perceives as Heaven . |
| 20 | Mr Davidson 's father , Robert Snr , said Mrs Holmes had been working for him for the last eight years . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Donal was married on August 29 and shortly afterwards an appointment was made for him at the Royal Marsden Hospital in London . |
| 24 | But he was confronted by an ecstatic welcome from his mother , who was waiting for him on the doorstep . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | The Prince was waiting for him on the terrace of the Hotel Continental , sitting by himself and looking bored . |
| 28 | Tom was waiting for him at the bottom . |
| 29 | Georgi Kirov was waiting for him at the appointed place and time . |
| 30 | 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 . |