Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] for him " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fascinated Athelstan watched the strange hand signs which Philippa translated for him . |
| 2 | Jerome made for him , heavy and urgent with news . |
| 3 | Gatting , back after serving three years of a five-year ban for his part in the rebel tour of South Africa , has unselfishly not forgotten how Gower fought for him to be his understudy in the sub-continent . |
| 4 | He thought of Valerie waiting for him . |
| 5 | Dana 's shrill voice made Claudia jump away from Roman as if she were guilty of something , but Roman had only been about to say he had asked Dana to model for him in order to get to know her better . |
| 6 | ‘ I 'd have liked Naylor to come into the firm , ’ Guthrie answered for him . |
| 7 | Hare did admit to Ian Wright , who caddied for Seve Ballesteros , that he would feel intimidated if Wright carried for him at La Manga . |
| 8 | Hare did admit to Ian Wright , who caddied for Seve Ballesteros , that he would feel intimidated if Wright carried for him at La Manga . |
| 9 | The words fell into the silence and Hari waited for him to continue . |
| 10 | ’ — Or they might not , ’ Alexei finished for him . |
| 11 | Miss Havisham sent for him , ’ she replied . |
| 12 | Nicholson motioned for him to sit down . |
| 13 | Ginny waited for him to break the silence . |
| 14 | ‘ He wants Perdita to play for him next year . |
| 15 | An injunction that his feast day is to be observed appears in the legal texts which Wulfstan drafted for him , and if the same clause in surviving copies of Æthelred 's laws is a later interpolation , as Patrick Wormald has contended , then Cnut 's interest in Edward , implied by his apparent gift of relics of this saint to Westminster Abbey , would be all the more striking . |
| 16 | Allan Walton , the enlightened owner of a prosperous textile firm in the Midlands , produced a friend who produced the capital for the restaurant , and supplied also the fabrics ( he was employing artists of the stature of Cedric Morris , Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant to design for him ) with which the restaurant was furnished . |
| 17 | Vincente caddied for him for a while but it was an awkward role for a big brother . |
| 18 | No one at the university was to know of his DIA connection , and to avoid any written record that might compromise his cover , Donleavy arranged for him to be paid during this period with American Express money orders drawn at 7–11 stores around Falls Church , Virginia . |
| 19 | ‘ My legs slightly raised and on my left side , ’ Faye finished for him , deliberately parroting the words . |
| 20 | The foundation is a complex of buildings which includes Son Abrines , the family home still occupied by Pilar , the artist 's widow , Son Boter , the old stone house which Miró employed as his graphics studio , coating its walls in charcoal sketches , the studio which Josep Luis Sert constructed for him in 1954–56 and where he worked until his death in 1983 , and the new exhibition centre of Sert 's pupil , Rafael Moneo , Dean of the Graduate Design School in Harvard . |
| 21 | He was off slowly enough , down the slope , but when Hazel stamped for him to stop he did so at once . |
| 22 | Aged fourteen , he was apprenticed to Galloway & Sons , a London engineering firm : when it failed , Faraday arranged for him to join Nasmyth & Gaskell at Patricroft , near Manchester . |
| 23 | He saw Owen redden with pleasure , and laughed , flinging an arm about his shoulders so forgetfully that it was a worthy as well as a willing sacrifice Owen made for him , containing the pain of the embrace . |
| 24 | Mr. Bailey requested the porter to call Mr. George Burnham to attend for him and so he did , but not until the child was born . |
| 25 | He had Jimmy Dickinson caddying for him , but Jimmy caddies for Jack Nicklaus in the Ryder Cup . |
| 26 | Hitler was pleasantly surprised to see thousands of cheering Danzigers waiting for him . |
| 27 | What did Doctor Jekyll ask his friend Lanyon to do for him ? |
| 28 | Delaney finished for him . |
| 29 | ‘ Barak worked for him ? ’ |
| 30 | Southey looked for him first at the Salutation and Cat in Newgate Street , where the landlord had given Coleridge free quarters because his conversation was so good for trade . |