Example sentences of "for him [prep] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | Or let him acknowledge that while it is rational doubt for him as a liberal humanist to criticize the Buddhist , the Marxist or the Christian , it might equally be a rational doubt for the Marxist to criticize him as a humanist . |
2 | To cut a long story short , he could n't make the grade so he ended up as a pharmacist in the business his father bought for him as a going concern . |
3 | He knew that Elizabeth and her mother regarded Sarah 's feelings for him as a girlish infatuation ; something to be smiled about , with tolerant affection . |
4 | Legal sources said an underground cell was being prepared for him on a maximum security row at the federal penitentiary in Marion , Illinois , America 's most chilling jail . |
5 | After all , I had ‘ covered ’ the Boys ' Parliament sessions and other church activities for him on a free lance basis , and I was sure he knew I was determined to take up journalism as a full-time and life-long career . |
6 | If Paul Fisher , another rich escapee from the smog , was hoping to drag his native city into the line of 1746 fashion , he chose the wrong architect when he asked Isaac Ware to design Clifton Hill House for him on an awkward shelf of eastward-facing garden . |
7 | Isolated in the middle of the pacific Ocean , 3,200 miles from Tahiti , and with a sea-crossing of almost a month stretching out before him to the next port of call , Darwin 's stay in this inhospitable volcanic outcrop must have been one of the lowest points for him on the entire trip . |
8 | So he passed over and the trumpets sounded for him on the other side . ’ |
9 | His estates were , moreover , a heterogeneous collection , put together with an eye to providing him with an income rather than creating a political niche for him at a regional level . |
10 | His estates were , moreover , a heterogeneous collection , put together with an eye to providing him with an income rather than creating a political niche for him at a regional level . |
11 | In City Fur Manufacturing Co. v. Fureenbond ( 1937 K.B. ) A owned some skins which were stored for him at an independent warehouse . |
12 | Cranston was waiting for him at the small tavern just outside Aldgate in the Portsoken overlooking the stinking city ditch . |
13 | Georgi Kirov was waiting for him at the appointed place and time . |
14 | Donal was married on August 29 and shortly afterwards an appointment was made for him at the Royal Marsden Hospital in London . |
15 | 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 . |
16 | He chattered at her , sleepy and indignant as she dived for him among the dirty linen , the old letters , a moth-eaten scarf . |
17 | When he arrived at work that morning the result of their labours was waiting for him in a blue folder . |
18 | Folly finished the sentence for him in a flat voice that she hardly recognised as being her own . |
19 | Well , I was doing this for him in a loving sort of wifely way and he said , ‘ Oh , by the way , I want to get rid of you ’ and I said , ‘ Thank you very much ’ and he said , ‘ Well , finish the trousers and post them on . ’ |
20 | 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 . |
21 | I could really go for him in a big way , but he 's going steady with the staff nurse on Rainbow . |
22 | 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 . |
23 | Marion searched for him in the crowded room , and found him at last , talking to Sue 's dad near the window . |
24 | THE ARMY WAS AGAIN TO PERFORM THE SAME SERVICE FOR HIM IN THE FOLLOWING MONTH EXCEPT THAT NEXT TIME IT WAS A GUIDED TOUR OF THE COURSES OF ACTION WHICH WERE NOT OPEN TO HIS GOVERNMENT AS THE GENERAL STRIKE ORGANISED BY THE ULSTER WORKERS ' COUNCIL MOVED TO A CLIMAX . |
25 | Between takes he waited outside the main hall with a helper to wipe his glasses for him in the close summer heat . |
26 | It was a momentous step for him in the awesome institution , which had received its Royal Charter from George IV exactly 130 years previously , thus antedating the federation . |
27 | This means handicaps are out for him in the immediate future and conditions races will have to be the order of the day on the run-up to Cheltenham . |
28 | You looked for him in the Green Room , but found only his jacket . |
29 | Evening after evening passed by without Annie the postmistress finding a letter for him in the grey bag the mail van brought in . |
30 | Rebel Ruddock emerged as the players ' spokesman for Venables , speaking up for him in the High Court yesterday , having already slapped in a transfer request to Sugar . |