Example sentences of "were [verb] for him [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | In City Fur Manufacturing Co. v. Fureenbond ( 1937 K.B. ) A owned some skins which were stored for him at an independent warehouse . |
| 5 | The loud calls for the author , by a curious irony , were taken for him by the U.S. ambassador . |