Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] to him for " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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' ’ . ' |
| 2 | you , er , it had happened because I had been , I had had a lot of training and a lot of swindles and thing , I was able to talked to him and I talked to him for an hour and a half er , I was curious for one thing to find out why he was , he , he was breaking into people 's houses , so that the fact that he was doing it for , to , to get money for drugs |
| 3 | I apologized to him for this but he said , " I 'm glad to be out of it . |
| 4 | I went to him for the political because I was a red hot loyalist at that time . |
| 5 | Marcus patted his lap and I went to him for a stroke . |
| 6 | And I said to him for God 's sake stop bloody well moaning cos we 've all got ta muck in ! |
| 7 | and a cup of coffee and a cigarette , and I always do that but this day I was so tired after the doing the garden , both gardens like and fucking weeding them all and doing everything else and brushing out the back and doing I said to him for fuck 's sake do them dishes for me for a change William would you I said , so I got er got myself in the bath said I 'm away to bingo , so William 's gone out what happened ? eight , I had eight he had one you may get yourself I said ah fuck no wonder I have no fucking luck , so on the settee and said I 'm not going anywhere , I sat for ten minutes then I said ah fuck you why should I sit here so I lifted the car keys and walked out again then , fucking zooming out of and there was John coming up like that |
| 8 | A mumbled , incoherent sound bubbled and surfaced in her throat , and she clung to him for support , her fingers twisting in the silk of his shirt . |
| 9 | His offence against those who came to him for medical help was less easy to punish . |
| 10 | But you wo n't be able to make any decision while you cling to him for fear of other men . |
| 11 | She turned to him for comfort . |
| 12 | It is the fact that he has stolen hope from a number of incredibly vulnerable HIV-positive women who turned to him for help . |
| 13 | He rings you up and goes he goes hello it 's Jonathan and you go oh right hello Jonathan and he does n't say anything so you talk to him for about half an hour or so and then you go alright Jonathan , better go , you know and then he goes no no I 've got something to tell you and you go oh alright what is it then and he goes I ca n't remember it man , just talk to me for a bit longer and I 'll remember it then and it goes on like that for hours and hours and it 's so boring . |
| 14 | She talked to him for only a short while and left him a booklet with clear diagrams of the proposed surgery . |
| 15 | Dr Courtney was also found guilty of drugging and raping a woman who went to him for advice about work , and indecently assaulting a German student and a 17-year-old when they went to his surgery for part-time jobs . |
| 16 | She looked to him for a lead and he gave it to her . |
| 17 | He did so partly in order that those who looked to him for a lead would have no doubts about where he stood . |
| 18 | The primary determinant of service was still land , in the sense that a lord normally drew the core of his following from the area where his estates lay , although the men who looked to him for lordship would not necessarily be his own tenants . |
| 19 | The primary determinant of service was still land , in the sense that a lord normally drew the core of his following from the area where his estates lay , although the men who looked to him for lordship would not necessarily be his own tenants . |
| 20 | Mr David Bernstein was not the subject of investigation or prosecution and we apologize to him for our error . |
| 21 | The King exerted his influence , not just because forty or fifty Members of Parliament held government posts , but because others in the House of Commons looked to him for financial help in fighting elections , or they looked to him for contracts , pensions , and favours for friends . |
| 22 | It occurred to him for the first time that Celia would be a bad enemy , just as she was a good friend . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | But so also must it stand to him for warmth , for … affection . |
| 25 | ‘ Well , just let us talk to him for a few moments , ’ said one of them . |