Example sentences of "[verb] for him by " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had a picture in his mind of the layout of passage , stairs and landing , a picture unwittingly painted for him by the man who had retrieved his wallet . |
| 2 | He has such great familiarity with the keyboard that when it is hidden for him by a cloth spread over it , he plays on this cloth with the same speed and the same precision . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 ? |
| 8 | For that , Nicholas had his own company , and another one hundred men picked for him by Pesaro . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | That the program-crunching is done for him by people in Breslau , Poland , who re-transmit the results back to his office in Invernessshire for checking before sending down the line to his customer in the Thames Valley , shows that the supposed imperfections of two apparently notorious national telephone systems in fact present no real obstacle . |
| 12 | The particulars must also be confirmed by or on behalf of the clearing member , and again this is usually done for him by the exchange 's electronic system . |
| 13 | While Smailovic in Sarajevo plays the Adagio specially written for him by Edinburgh-based composer Nigel Osborne , he will be joined by American cellist Evelyn Elsing at the Capitol in Washington DC , Florian Kitt at the Red Cross Depot in Vienna and music student Diana Isaacs in Edinburgh . |
| 14 | A velvet court dress made for him by his fellow tailors is to go on show at the Croydon Museum . |
| 15 | Many of the records were based on collections made for him by W. S. Duncan , who lived in the islands ( Campbell , op. cit . ) . |
| 16 | The next day they went riding , the boy in riding clothes made for him by Edouard 's English tailors , a miniature copy of Edouard 's own . |
| 17 | Peter had heard all this , sitting at the kitchen table with a cup of tea , and a sandwich made for him by Anna to sustain him to the far side of compline . |
| 18 | The Emperor 's armour was made for him by Dwarf smiths and incorporates some of the actual armour worn by Magnus the Pious at the battle of Kislev . |
| 19 | The design for Isvik was influenced to quite a marked degree by the Peterhead-type sailing vessels of the Mounties , also by a sketch made for him by that extraordinary Antarctic single-hander , David Lewis . |
| 20 | He had heart-shaped cuff-links and a heart-shaped ring made for him by Child & Child , and in 1888 commissioned a heart-shaped , leather jewel box for his daughter Margaret . |
| 21 | He 'd had a new set made for him by the professional but somehow could not get used to them . |
| 22 | The substitute had been on the field for only three minutes when McCoist got his second goal of the evening , made for him by another purposeful run and pass by Jess . |
| 23 | The studio built for him by Josep Luis Sert in 1954–56 and housing his last unfinished canvases can be viewed by appointment . |
| 24 | For that reason , he has omitted his more fragile or delicate works in favour of robustness , playing with various permutations in a 1:20 model built for him by the Richard Rogers Partnership . |
| 25 | Hoare himself moved to a villa on Clapham Common , built for him by Flitcroft , where he died 8 September 1785 . |
| 26 | At this point the Bosnian refugee leaped on to the stage on a small wooden horse , designed and built for him by his mother . |
| 27 | He was not aware of any post being sought for him by the Government and , if offered one , would have turned it down . |
| 28 | The situation was saved for him by Mrs Carver 's crying , ‘ Well , there it is ! |
| 29 | Nothing , if the injury persisted , but whatever a man 's mates might collect for him by passing round a hat . |
| 30 | There was space then for her free-fall to be guided , even as Lucifer 's had been guided , across the vast vacuity , down to a home prepared for him by his enemy . |