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 | 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 . |
| 3 | If that was the impression she was giving , then the fault lay entirely with him for disturbing her usual equilibrium with his unexpected behaviour . |
| 4 | The castle became one of the duke 's main northern residences and local families turned naturally to him for lordship . |
| 5 | The castle became one of the duke 's main northern residences and local families turned naturally to him for lordship . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Put together by him for his own interest . |
| 8 | ‘ 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 . |
| 9 | He took it away with him for the weekend , to his home in Oxfordshire . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Now it offered her the chance to get away from him for ever … |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | If only she could get right away from him for a while , then she 'd be able to cope . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | She stared wordlessly at him for a moment , her eyes wide with dismay . |
| 22 | When after a year he moved away to another job , she felt acute distress and thought continuously of him for many months . |
| 23 | She stared confusedly at him for several seconds , then lowered her head , gazing into the glass she was holding . |
| 24 | been round there once or twice after him for a different thing . |
| 25 | But Kirk 's reputation went ahead of him for a few years to come . |
| 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 | ‘ But I had worked closely with him for five years and knew he had the qualities to become a top boss . |
| 28 | ‘ But I had worked closely with him for five years and knew he had the qualities to become a top boss . |
| 29 | By contrast , he did inherit a destructive family situation which weighed heavily on him for the rest of his life . |
| 30 | Cameron looked steadily at him for a while until Stewart turned his head with a little toss and swallowed down his wine . |