Example sentences of "[verb] for him to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Three years later , he emigrated with his parents to Israel , yet became a frequent commuter to the major musical centres of Europe , where he caught the eye of such musical heavyweights as Edwin Fischer , Wilhelm Furtwangler and ( most especially ) Arthur Rubinstein , who took an immense interest in the young pianist and arranged for him to be represented by his agent , the legendary Sol Hurok . |
| 2 | To offset the charge of inexperience , Reagan 's sponsors arranged for him to be briefed on state issues by specialist advisers . |
| 3 | Halfway down the Haymarket , now quite a distance from Piccadilly Circus , Neil paused , breathless , and afterwards wondered what kind god had arranged for him to be where he was . |
| 4 | David attempted to reassure him , and after he 'd arranged for him to be seen in the casualty department of the local eye unit he asked the factory welfare officer , Louise Raymond , to take him over . |
| 5 | I once specially asked for him to be there and then demanded to know at the rehearsal who was this man sitting with the flutes . |
| 6 | His mother , unable to find the strength to battle against him , wrote to the school and asked for him to be excused . |
| 7 | A week later the labour master was convicted ; he was fined ten shillings and costs , although the solicitor who was defending him asked for him to be sentenced to a term of imprisonment ( in which case , an appeal could have been lodged ) . |
| 8 | I was told that the manager had gone to lunch , and when I asked for him to be bleeped I was told again that he had gone to lunch and that he had left his bleep at the switchboard — all in a tone that suggested that this was standard behaviour . |
| 9 | Gatting , back after serving three years of a five-year ban for his part in the rebel tour of South Africa , has unselfishly not forgotten how Gower fought for him to be his understudy in the sub-continent . |
| 10 | 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 ’ . |
| 11 | The time had come for him to be totally unselfish and think only of Anna . |
| 12 | Do not wait for him to hand you the technique ; you know what the title of the sub-topic is . |
| 13 | His interests and habits had been too strictly and personally framed for him to be anything less than completely reliant on them . |
| 14 | Dad was a regular churchgoer himself , a sidesman , so it just would not do for him to be seen working on such a special day in the Church Calendar . |
| 15 | His distribution contract did not expressly provide for him to be personally involved in the distribution although his personal involvement was appreciated . |
| 16 | Rudely , without waiting for him to hand it to her , she snatched it out of his hand , then anxiously turned over the scrawled papers one by one . |
| 17 | She was waiting for him to rant on — her face coolly patient . |
| 18 | Ralph ( Hyacinth had been swiftly urged to drop the ‘ Sir ’ by her genial host ) called for him to be removed , by force if necessary , refusing to believe that so demotic a figure belonged to ‘ our great Party ’ . |
| 19 | Today Miss Knox said she was ‘ outraged ’ to learn that the man who assaulted her , supervisor Brian McConville , was still employed at Lurgan Community Workshop and called for him to be sacked . |
| 20 | I prayed for him to be filled with the Spirit . |
| 21 | In the days following Ershad 's downfall pressure mounted for him to be put on trial . |
| 22 | He says if people had listen to the voices who were calling for him to be locked up then he would n't have had this chance to show an improvement . |
| 23 | Pasternak was apparently impressed ; far lesser actors than Nicholson would eventually become began their careers by similar bravado , and he arranged for him to be tested . |
| 24 | As generally happens , his mother-in-law finally caught up with him and , having obtained a special licence from the Court , arranged for him to be imprisoned for twelve years . |
| 25 | No one at the university was to know of his DIA connection , and to avoid any written record that might compromise his cover , Donleavy arranged for him to be paid during this period with American Express money orders drawn at 7–11 stores around Falls Church , Virginia . |
| 26 | He arranged for him to be released from his vows and work as a chaplain in Templecombe and the surrounding villages and hamlets . ’ |
| 27 | Pip secretly arranges for him to be taken into partnership by Clarriker , a rising young merchant , and he prospers , working for the firm in the East and is eventually able to marry his sweetheart Clara Barley . |
| 28 | A writ has been issued by the actress and her parents asking for him to be banned ‘ from entering or trespassing on the property or on the actual road ’ . |
| 29 | I 'd hate for him to be stuck up there for last week in March |
| 30 | Much to his relief he was finally arrested — and appeared in front of the judge who called for him to be brought before the court back in 1990 . |