Example sentences of "[vb infin] [prep] him for " in BNC.
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| 1 | All along Zen had been haunted by the idea that he might make some blunder which would hang over him for the rest of his life , yet here he was behaving like a dope addict . |
| 2 | She felt she could gaze at him for ever . |
| 3 | I thought well they 'd do for him for summer . |
| 4 | I think it 's it 's hard for me to say because I did n't work for him for long . |
| 5 | He ignored her question ( " because I 'm a woman " , thought Miriam ) but smiled soothingly and said : " Will you look after him for me , Mrs Lang ? |
| 6 | ‘ You 'll look after him for me , wo n't you ? ’ she 'd said to me after we 'd got him unpacked and she could n't think of anything else which might prevent her from leaving . |
| 7 | I said cos I shall phone the bank first thing Monday and I shall say right , he 's took the car so you can run to him for the money cos you 'll be getting none out of me . |
| 8 | He saw how every little niggling thing old Andy had given him to do counted — how one developed his muscle , another his eye , a third his judgement of time and distance ; how each hour he spent working with the foremast hands taught him to know and understand them better against the day when such men as they were would look to him for guidance . |
| 9 | For example , the modern female hostage who falls in love with her captor may not merely be manifesting the well-known defence of ‘ identification with the aggressor ’ ( particularly since it is not so much identification with him as submission to him ) , she may instead be giving way to her phylogenetic id and its demand that a female captured by a male should look to him for sexual satisfaction . |
| 10 | Little wonder that they were so fresh in her mind ; creating a very powerful effect on his mind and unconscious , musically and rhythmically , that would remain with him for life . |
| 11 | I always got on with my daughter , but she 's in Canada now , so I asked my son if I could stay with him for a bit . |
| 12 | But at the age of forty he was at last beginning to wonder whether the image he created for himself in his twenties could stay with him for ever . |
| 13 | ‘ I think so , but I 'll stay with him for a while , and just give him fluids . ’ |
| 14 | To execute him for treason indeed would have been little help to the government in its attempt to crush and discredit the Reformation , but they could not proceed against him for heresy in due form until England was reconciled with the Roman Catholic Church . |
| 15 | They could therefore intercede with him for the living , to whom they might appear , and for whom they might still work miracles . |
| 16 | But let's forget about him for now . |
| 17 | But so also must it stand to him for warmth , for … affection . |
| 18 | Others could not get to him for half an hour . |
| 19 | Paradise Lost is taken by most at the level of the author 's presentation and unless one looks very deeply and sceptically at Satan or one is a Christian like Lewis or a Puritan like Milton one can not laugh at him for being a fool . |
| 20 | ‘ Well , just let us talk to him for a few moments , ’ said one of them . |
| 21 | If he 's still here , would you go and talk to him for me , just casually , find out where he comes from . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ You can talk to him for me , my dear . |
| 23 | The seller then becomes a trustee for the buyer and must account to him for any dividends he receives and vote in accordance with his instructions ( or appoint him as his proxy ) . |
| 24 | But more significant in the present context is the fact that if an MP wins a reputation for trying to be helpful , more and more people will turn to him for help . |
| 25 | Only later had it occurred to him to wonder whether he should feel alarmed by Charlotte 's anxious tone or flattered that she felt she could turn to him for advice . |