Example sentences of "[prep] him for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Having delivered Eliot to those who were looking after him for the night , we walked back to our colleges discussing the evening , with the ardour of youth which included that most interesting of contests , the comparison of recollections . |
| 2 | ‘ WHIT 'S yer name hen ? ’ the drunk and dishevelled man on the train asked the woman opposite him for the fourth time in a very loud voice . |
| 3 | The producer Jerome Hellman had seen Dustin in Eh ? and had thought of him for the part way back then . |
| 4 | Though he knew the press would be sending a photographer to take a picture of him for the financial pages of the newspaper , he suspected that their main interest was in Hank . |
| 5 | None the less in 1329 he did simple homage ( all that was asked of him for the moment ) at Amiens , following this up with liege homage in 1331 . |
| 6 | ‘ Allocate a man to take care of him for the next few days until his tutor , T'ai Cho , joins him . ’ |
| 7 | Mr Wilson complained to an industrial tribunal that the company had taken action , short of dismissal , against him for the purpose of deterring him from being or penalising him for being a member of the NUJ , contrary to s 23 of the EP(C)A . |
| 8 | Lacking any financial acumen , he ran into difficulties with the Inland Revenue which filed a bankruptcy petition against him for the unpaid tax on his ring earnings : the order was for over £17 000 . |
| 9 | But by 1830 Burn had left the Greek revival behind him for the subdued Italianate of his branch banks and the big , simple palazzo from of his New Club on Edinburgh 's Princes Street of 1834 . |
| 10 | I walked back behind him for the last several hundred yards , and was shocked at the sheer , mindless , bestial ferocity of the crowd . |
| 11 | It was full of pieces of paper , which he dropped behind him for the other boys to follow . |
| 12 | Having had a gruesome storm-tossed journey , his first act on landing was to fulfil his vow to travel barefoot to the nearest shrine in thanksgiving for his delivery ; the rheumatism which resulted was with him for the rest of his life — as was the sourness with which he regarded Scotland . |
| 13 | I KNEW of Doctor Ladislav Mareda through British friends who had worked with him for the English-language section of Prague radio until the crushing of the Prague Spring in 1968 . |
| 14 | Contrasting Mr Donovan 's distress with that of victims of industrial injury , the judge said : ‘ You should have in mind it is not a case where you are awarding damages for someone who has suffered some physical injuries which will be with him for the rest of his days . |
| 15 | Jazz 's target was to stay with him for the full four minutes . |
| 16 | If so , it was at Combwich ( pronounced ‘ Cummage ’ ) that Coleridge first set foot within that secluded , forgotten territory , bounded by the Quantock Hills and a bleakly impressive coastline , which was to remain with him for the rest of his life . |
| 17 | Laurence Gilliam of the BBC in London arranged and produced these impressive programmes and it was my pleasure and privilege to work with him for the Vancouver region for several years running . |
| 18 | It is difficult to disagree with him for the conjunction of computers and communications is perhaps the most important aspect of information technology . |
| 19 | Later , via a university revue at the Edinburgh Festival , he met Terry Jones and began co-writing with him for The Frost Report . |
| 20 | On the other hand , if you feel your debtor is making a reasonable effort to reduce his debt , then enter into an agreement with him for the payment of the remaining balance . |
| 21 | ‘ I was asked to do a promotional picture with him for the video launch , but I refused . |
| 22 | And we should have sympathy with him for the sight of a strange dog — whether on a lead or not — can be enough to make sheep run and if pregnant they can miscarry . |
| 23 | A girl and her boyfriend had fallen out and he went round to her house the next evening to apologise , taking his dog with him for the walk . |
| 24 | It was the Colonel himself who taught me how to shoot , and I always went with him for the fishing . |
| 25 | He took it away with him for the weekend , to his home in Oxfordshire . |
| 26 | You seem to have impressed our number-one driver as well , because he too has asked if you could be released to work closely with him for the rest of the season . |
| 27 | When Christian left for London to begin his new life in the Methodist ministry , Seb took him to the railway station at Shipton-under-Wychwood in the farm 's gig and Carrie came with him for the ride . |
| 28 | He will carry disappointment with him for the rest of his political career and , indeed , to the end of his days . |
| 29 | They could therefore intercede with him for the living , to whom they might appear , and for whom they might still work miracles . |
| 30 | ‘ Which must mean that , regardless of the fact that he 's so wound up over you he ca n't think straight , you 're only playing around with him for the pure hell of it . ’ |