Example sentences of "[verb] for he [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | For his performance , he wore an outfit designed for him by one of the finalists in the Lloyds Bank Fashion Challenge , and made by Paul Smith , the designer . |
| 32 | In the 1780s , when Highgate Hill was so steep and deeply rutted that carriages regularly failed to make the grade , and the drive to town sufficiently dangerous that a wise man went with pistols , a merchant called Thomas Roxborough had constructed a handsome house on Hornsey Lane , designed for him by one Henry Holland . |
| 33 | 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 . |
| 34 | ‘ I did n't fall for him at once , ’ says Hilary . |
| 35 | Liam complained that he had plenty to do with the new shop opening for him to be running around after doctors — ‘ just because a couple of kiddies are sick ’ . |
| 36 | Professor Fritz Eloff , the President of the powerful Northern Transvaal Union and Craven 's vice president for 20 years , substituted for him at IRB meetings abroad when Craven 's failing health repeatedly prevented him from attending . |
| 37 | She promises to come for him at noon . |
| 38 | Since Alford was described on the ballot paper merely as ‘ The Labour Candidate ’ , it would not be surprising if quite a few voters were confused , and voted for him by mistake . |
| 39 | The time had come for him to be totally unselfish and think only of Anna . |
| 40 | 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 . |
| 41 | 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 . |
| 42 | If matters are simplified for him by assuming that he can move only north , south , east or west , and excluding the possibility that he might collapse on the spot , can you visualize the path he would follow ? |
| 43 | For that , Nicholas had his own company , and another one hundred men picked for him by Pesaro . |
| 44 | If he was not at the reception hopper grizzleys , it is quite probable that she would wait for him at the entrance to Deep Level . |
| 45 | Do not wait for him to hand you the technique ; you know what the title of the sub-topic is . |
| 46 | He often went out alone , Italian style , and Jeanne would wait for him in the street after the cafés closed . |
| 47 | Never mind , I 'll wait for him in the car . ’ |
| 48 | I tell you , one night , if we knew he was coming , we would wait for him round the back and pitch him down the falls ! ’ |
| 49 | I think I 'm right in saying the plaster theatre 's booked for him on Tuesday afternoon next week . ’ |
| 50 | 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 . |
| 51 | 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 . |
| 52 | His only source of superiority is that Frye fagged for him at school . |
| 53 | Uncle Tommy , along with the Fawcetts and John Thwaites from High Birk Hatt , used to work for him during the grouse season . |
| 54 | Persuaded her to work for him with promises he had no intention of fulfilling ? |
| 55 | What on earth have I agreed to work for him for ? she asked herself despairingly . |
| 56 | And erm anyway we got more from the unemployment exchange that prepared to work for him for fourteen pound , when we could have a eighteen pound on the dole . |
| 57 | He brought me down here to work for him under false pretences . |
| 58 | Although no evidence of his activities before 1643 survives , we know that by then he had married , had established a house and warehouse at Leadenhall Street , and had brought over many of his relatives to work for him in England . |
| 59 | His wife cares for him at home but this is very demanding and she finds that she needs regular breaks . |
| 60 | The suit had been tailored for him in London , at a cost of some one hundred and fifty guineas — not by Edouard de Chavigny 's own tailors , Gieves of Savile Row , but by another man who could do a cheaper , and passable , imitation . |