Example sentences of "[verb] for him in " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had sent her , with Ned and the barmaids and Heaven knew how many others watching , to wait for him in his bed . |
| 2 | I 'd been caddying for Ralph Moffatt on the pro circuit and got him through the pre-qualifier at Fairhaven , so I told him I 'd be caddying for him in the Open as I 'd heard nothing from Jack . |
| 3 | Before kiln operator Steve Kelly died at 55 , he asked for help to be given to the team of Macmillan nurses who cared for him in his last months . |
| 4 | Roberto had written and asked me to carry for him in that year 's Open . |
| 5 | Something made for him in the darkness and struck him a violent blow just under the knee . |
| 6 | The landowner 's agent may also act for him in negotiations with conservationists and engineers to secure the parcels of riverside land required for habitat protection and enhancement . |
| 7 | He often went out alone , Italian style , and Jeanne would wait for him in the street after the cafés closed . |
| 8 | Never mind , I 'll wait for him in the car . ’ |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Little was done for him in the three years up to his seventeenth birthday when , like so many others , he found companionship and , ironically , the security he craved for by joining the army . |
| 12 | He was retained by the king as one of his serjeants between 1287 and 1293 and is to be found acting for him in the 1287 Gloucestershire eyre and in the northern circuit eyres of 1292–3 as well as in the Common Bench and in the Exchequer . |
| 13 | It is conceivable , too , that the Sihtric dux who witnesses three of Cnut 's charters may be the Dublin monarch Sihtric Silkbeard , who used dies evidently made for him in the mint at Chester to strike pennies naming him king of the Irish and modelled on Cnut 's Quatrefoil type . |
| 14 | I told myself he might have meant us to meet at the Festival , so I went along there and searched for him in the crowd . ’ |
| 15 | Nobody would think of looking for him in the Channel Islands . |
| 16 | The old man had a house built for him in a pretty little Warwickshire village a few miles from Stratford , with the Avon flowing through the garden . |
| 17 | When he and Poins scatter Falstaff and his robber band they speak verse to each other at the end of the scene ( II.ii.104ff. ) , and as soon as Falstaff has gone into hiding Hal addresses the Sheriff searching for him in verse ( II.iv.506 ) . |
| 18 | It was an hour before he was discovered missing and we spent the rest of the afternoon searching for him in the woods and plains surrounding the house . |
| 19 | From all that he heard , it was clear that Gaddafi 's position had been secured for him in a way that his palace guard and secret police could never have managed on their own . |
| 20 | The official declaration removing Saw Maung stated that " specialist doctors " had suggested that his health had deteriorated to a stage " where an inevitable rest is needed for him in order to resume his duties " . |
| 21 | His parents and doctors caring for him in hospital faced lengthy court battles before winning the go-ahead from Law Lords to have his feeding tube disconnected earlier this year . |
| 22 | ‘ I wondered if you also acted for him in his private affairs ? ’ |
| 23 | With Alan Leonard leading for him in the pairs semi-final , Graham got off to a 6-0 lead after five ends but Talbot and Nutt came storming back to open a 12-8 lead after 15 ends and after that never really looked like losing . |
| 24 | The driver of the truck sent to meet Charles and his baggage at the railhead south of Arras , had told him that Lord Christopher — Charles did n't ask the surname — was waiting for him in the Officers ' Mess of 2nd Grenadiers . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Any horrors waiting for him in the future were compensated by this moment in time . |
| 27 | A man came home late from work one night to find his wife sitting waiting for him in the living room . |
| 28 | But he had no sense that they were being watched , that somewhere between these walls and the windows glinting in the transitory sun there were people waiting for him in anxiety , grief , perhaps in fear . |
| 29 | Waiting for him in the studio seven people are busy setting up the camera and lights and unwrapping white plaster pillars and an assortment of very beautiful chairs and tables . |
| 30 | The ice crown was waiting for him in the city , protected only by the ghosts . |