Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] him for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or I do n't think so anyhow , we 'd 've nailed it together for him for nothing and |
| 2 | Ferryman had kipped down with him for a while , till one night , turning over in his sleep , Jackie had given him such a clout with the iron boot it nearly took his hip off . |
| 3 | Or — and this more horrible idea had been very obscurely with him for some time — how had he dared to entertain it ? — perhaps Marcus — Marcus had spoken of evil yearnings , of a crime , perhaps committed already , perhaps in a dream — No , that was unthinkable , impossible . |
| 4 | Well Chris says he 's got ta keep in with him for a little while , he said he |
| 5 | The children skipped along with him for a few yards and he saw how beguiling their faces were , the large dark eyes , the straggle of thick black hair , the earnest looks of desperate innocence . |
| 6 | He took two pals along with him for company and planned to spend the time snapping rare African wildlife . |
| 7 | Maybe she 'd play along with him for a while . |
| 8 | Lou went along with him for every show , with a place always reserved for her in the front row . |
| 9 | If that was the impression she was giving , then the fault lay entirely with him for disturbing her usual equilibrium with his unexpected behaviour . |
| 10 | The castle became one of the duke 's main northern residences and local families turned naturally to him for lordship . |
| 11 | The castle became one of the duke 's main northern residences and local families turned naturally to him for lordship . |
| 12 | This is perhaps nowhere more clearly seen than in Inca Peru where the Inca monarch headed an authoritarian welfare state in which his monopoly of the economic surplus , along with his military and policy power , meant that the citizen looked only to him for protection from his fellow men and from hunger , want and hardship . |
| 13 | Put together by him for his own interest . |
| 14 | ‘ I have a Matchbox racing set I had bought and put away for him for that coming Christmas , but he never got to see it . |
| 15 | He took it away with him for the weekend , to his home in Oxfordshire . |
| 16 | I guessed you were from the first , and the fact that you could quite happily and openly go away with him for a weekend everyone would know about confirmed that I was right . |
| 17 | Now it offered her the chance to get away from him for ever … |
| 18 | It was his grandmother he spent his fifth birthday with and that same year his parents went off on a tour of the Commonwealth , which took them away from him for six long months . |
| 19 | She waved to him extravagantly , blowing kisses as though she was on board an ocean liner that was carrying her away from him for ever . |
| 20 | She flung herself away from him for a moment , and then returned to attack his sex but he held her off , had to use some force to hold her blind-eyed , gaunt-faced , now grasping body away from his . |
| 21 | But when we moved in here , because I 'd been away from him for five months and I 'd learned to cope for myself , I started standing up for myself and he did n't like it . |
| 22 | If only she could get right away from him for a while , then she 'd be able to cope . |
| 23 | The Danish star failed to hang on to a shot from Steve Clarke and the ball ran away from him for Gavin Peacock to sweep it home and stun the United fans . |
| 24 | Maggie added : ‘ Keith sees Rose whenever he wants , either by popping in here or she goes over to him for the day . ’ |
| 25 | You thought I 'd got off with him for fuck 's sake ! |
| 26 | Only on his way home at lunchtime did he at last rouse himself enough to make a detour , and stop by at his brother 's apartment and invite Franco to come home with him for lunch . |
| 27 | She had dinner with Ben and Maggie Bradshaw , and Oliver and Bron Henderson had a party which she attended , although she ended up bumping into Jack as she might have known she would , and going home with him for the night . |
| 28 | It came home to him for the first time that what had seemed to him a trivial event , a stupid joke , was something genuinely much bigger to Andrus . |
| 29 | Oh yeah all the all the hits er like er Bunch of Time and and Maggie and Old Flames and after all these years , if did n't do those you 'd be shot afterwards like but er what we do with the songs that that were like you know hit singles and that people really come to hear we make sure that you know that we do those and then we put in er you know what we think would be the favourite ones from albums and then we add in a sprinkling of the stuff from the new album so you know we give them a good cross-section for an hour and a half and then we have a good first half of the show as well we 've got first half of the show as well and our band go on with him for forty minutes and er they perform as well a few soloists and er then Tony and myself come on and we do an hour and a half and we go right everything we do on stage we have recorded at some time , we do n't do something that we have n't recorded . |
| 30 | ‘ Oh , my dear heart , ’ Ven breathed , and held her close up against him for long , long happy minutes . |