Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] him for " in BNC.
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| 1 | It occurred to him for the first time that Celia would be a bad enemy , just as she was a good friend . |
| 2 | She had hit him and fed him , shouted at him for being idle and comforted him when he woke in the night and was afraid . |
| 3 | From ‘ African History for Beginners ’ we learn that Cain was the first white man ; he turned pale , and his features shrivelled up , when God shouted at him for killing Abel . |
| 4 | It was full of pieces of paper , which he dropped behind him for the other boys to follow . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | When the vicar got a new bishop who was Anglo-Catholic he appealed to him for his sanction , in the hope that the bishop 's approval would make up for the lack of faculty . |
| 7 | First , he had failed to do what he ought to have done when Bishop of Durham to discipline the ritualists in the parish of St Mary 's Tyne Dock , although some of the parishioners appealed to him for protection against illegal practices and ornaments of a Romish character . |
| 8 | His offence against those who came to him for medical help was less easy to punish . |
| 9 | Sir John Harington relates , however , how ‘ he would walk at certain hours in one of the aisles of St Paul 's , that if any came to him for spiritual advice and comfort ( as some did though not many ) he might impart it to them ’ . |
| 10 | Like many athletes Linford often came to him for advice . |
| 11 | Sooner or later every Stevenson bill came to him for discount ; and every foreign transaction went via him . |
| 12 | Vincente caddied for him for a while but it was an awkward role for a big brother . |
| 13 | The organist and I finished more or less together and I turned to him for reassurance as I announced my next song : ‘ And now , ‘ ’ Summer Time' ’ . ' |
| 14 | It is the fact that he has stolen hope from a number of incredibly vulnerable HIV-positive women who turned to him for help . |
| 15 | He resented the assertion of Aquitainian authority coming hard on the heels of the Grandmont meeting and when Count William turned to him for help he responded by raiding the Vexin to draw Henry back north . |
| 16 | She turned to him for comfort . |
| 17 | She frowned at him for a moment ; then her brow cleared . |
| 18 | She lived with him for 11 years . |
| 19 | She had had many boyfriends before meeting Mr Smith and lived with him for about one year before they married , five months before Keith was born . |
| 20 | She had had many boyfriends before meeting Mr Smith and lived with him for about one year before they married , five months before Keith was born . |
| 21 | Big Percy Cherrett fed off him for two seasons but it was Peter Simpson who benefited most from the work of the talented left-winger and it is no coincidence that Peter scored more goals in each of the three seasons in which Clarke was his team-mate than in any of the succeeding campaigns . |
| 22 | He could still recall the sense of dread that hung over him for days as he waited to be thrashed for that escapade . |
| 23 | A heavy air of preoccupation hung over him for days after his return , and I recall once , in reply to my inquiring how he had enjoyed his trip , his remarking : ‘ Disturbing , Stevens . |
| 24 | If she relied on him for anything , it never happened . |
| 25 | Paul Devraux grinned at him for a moment , then raised a cynical eyebrow . |
| 26 | and went and sat in the corner of the bathroom and went , scowled at him for a bit ! |
| 27 | Annie glanced at him for guidance , but receiving none , made no reply . |
| 28 | My father read only cowboy books , dogeared and disposable , until my mother jeered at him for wasting his time . |
| 29 | Not till later was it diagnosed that the mental breakdown which destroyed Hoskyns crept upon him for a year or more before he died . |
| 30 | and worked for him for ten years on surveys and designs for many of his works . |