Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] him for " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 've got all his tablets sorted for him for coming home . |
| 2 | His mother could not be traced , but the tiny corpse was recognised by a lady who had looked after him for some time , before she , as many others , had done before her , had innocently replied to Mrs Dyer 's advertisement , disguised by the nom de plume Mrs Thomas . |
| 3 | Oh yes , he ditched Graham who 's looked after him for over ten years through thick and thin , and mainly thin , in favour of Mike Martinez . ’ |
| 4 | That bastard Harley dumped me after I 'd looked after him for nearly ten years . |
| 5 | ‘ Let's hope so , ’ she said , and told them that her parents were furious because Josh , her grandmother 's lodger , had left all his money and possessions to Kate and not even mentioned her grandmother who had looked after him for years . |
| 6 | She had looked at him for a long time , at first solemnly and then with mounting anger . |
| 7 | John Aubrey [ q.v. ] may have lodged with him for a time . |
| 8 | The Court of Appeal held that the jurisdiction clause was not binding on B. The way the documents were presented to him for signature was misleading : B was entitled to assume that the two copies of the terms were identical . |
| 9 | Early claims the money is owed to him for his work on the record , the biggest selling rap album of all time , having shifted in excess of 20 million copies . |
| 10 | ‘ It is sufficient to say that in Maskell v. Horner Lord Reading C.J. , referring to these authorities , and in particular to the advice given by Willes J. in Great Western Railway Co. v. Sutton — where that learned judge said that he had ‘ always understood that when a man pays more than he is bound to do by law for performance of a duty which the law says is owed to him for nothing , or for less than he has paid , there is a compulsion or concussion in respect of which he is entitled to recover the excess by condictio indebiti , or action for money had and received ’ — said that ‘ such claims made in this form of action are treated as matters of ordinary practice and beyond discussion . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ when a man pays more than he is bound to do by law for the performance of a duty which the law says is owed to him for nothing , or for less than he has paid , there is a compulsion or concussion in respect of which he is entitled to recover the excess by condictio indebiti , or action for money had and received . |
| 12 | ( 4 ) Where a lessor is proceeding by action or otherwise to enforce a right of re-entry or forfeiture under any covenant , proviso , or stipulation in a lease , or for non-payment of rent , the court may , on application by any person claiming as an under-lessee any estate or interest in the property comprised in the lease or any part thereof , either in the lessor 's action ( if any ) or in any action brought by such person for that purpose , make an order vesting , for the whole term of the lease or any less term , the property comprised in the lease , or any part thereof in any person entitled as under-lessee to any estate or interest in such property upon such conditions as to execution of any deed or other document , payment of rent , costs , expenses , damages , compensation , giving security , or otherwise , as the court in the circumstances of each case may think fit , but in no case shall any such under-lessee be entitled to require a lease to be granted to him for any longer term than he had his original sub-lease . |
| 13 | Shortly before the announcement of his resignation there were press reports that FBI agents had reviewed Gray 's 1990 financial disclosures and had sought records concerning payments made to him for speaking engagements . |
| 14 | Last November he appealed against the sentence , imposed on him for breaking a ban on keeping livestock . |
| 15 | He fears the demands that will be made on him for reparation and ‘ the punishment and revenge that may fall on him . |
| 16 | It is clear that a payment made by him for goods bought is binding , though payment could not have been enforced against him . |
| 17 | Had n't thought about him for years . |
| 18 | The producer Jerome Hellman had seen Dustin in Eh ? and had thought of him for the part way back then . |
| 19 | For instance , if he has money of the client in his hands not entrusted to him for any specific purpose , there is nothing in the section to prevent his retaining the amount due to him out of that money . |
| 20 | This was the fate of deaf and dumb adults and children until towards the end of the sixteenth century , when Pedro Ponce de Leon , a Benedictine monk of the monastery of San Salvador near Burgos in Northern Spain , succeeded in teaching language to some deaf and dumb children , who had been entrusted to him for schooling by wealthy families , as deaf and dumb minors were legally incapable of inheriting their parents estates . |
| 21 | Although his faith in the combined system was not shared during his lifetime by the majority of his fellow teachers in Great Britain , he was nevertheless held in great respect , and the editorship of the journal of the British Association of Teachers of the Deaf — The Teacher of the Deaf — was entrusted to him for many years . |
| 22 | On the latter 's arrival , they had talked to him for a while and then he had gone off with them . |
| 23 | I found one guy and talked to him for a while on tape . |
| 24 | He applied for a grant of land and this was sold to him for a nominal sum . |
| 25 | Unlike Kissinger , Le Duc Tho declined the Nobel Peace Prize offered to him for his role in negotiating the agreements . |
| 26 | His ex-wife had cried at him for three years . |
| 27 | But if Bobby wanted to get in on it now , he 'd have been turned away at the door : the elitists would have laughed at him for being in an indie band and ‘ Loaded ’ might never have been produced . |
| 28 | I have n't laughed at him for years . ’ |
| 29 | The cabinet was spotted by a runner in a garage in Vienna and was bought by him for £70,000 . |
| 30 | One of these , Jimmie , was used by him for a harmless demonstration of the electrocardiogram at the Royal Society and became the subject of a famous parliamentary reply to a question from the anti-vivisection lobby ( Hansard , 8 July 1909 ) . |