Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] for him [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His interests and habits had been too strictly and personally framed for him to be anything less than completely reliant on them . |
| 2 | Do not wait for him to hand you the technique ; you know what the title of the sub-topic is . |
| 3 | Dad was a regular churchgoer himself , a sidesman , so it just would not do for him to be seen working on such a special day in the Church Calendar . |
| 4 | She flashed the note around , proudly though covertly , and looked for him at the bus stop , but she could not look for him without some misgiving . |
| 5 | Kit Everard was not a vain man , and he knew that even in the encounters that had given Ariel some pleasure ( later , when he 'd learned to check his premature excitement with her ) , she had not cared for him with her heart . |
| 6 | His distribution contract did not expressly provide for him to be personally involved in the distribution although his personal involvement was appreciated . |
| 7 | I once specially asked for him to be there and then demanded to know at the rehearsal who was this man sitting with the flutes . |
| 8 | FALKLANDS war hero Simon Weston is to tackle an 800-mile journey in America on a £2,000 cycle specially designed for him by the Lotus car company . |
| 9 | He had supported them all their lives and what had they ever done for him except wait for him to die ? |
| 10 | The particulars must also be confirmed by or on behalf of the clearing member , and again this is usually done for him by the exchange 's electronic system . |
| 11 | While Smailovic in Sarajevo plays the Adagio specially written for him by Edinburgh-based composer Nigel Osborne , he will be joined by American cellist Evelyn Elsing at the Capitol in Washington DC , Florian Kitt at the Red Cross Depot in Vienna and music student Diana Isaacs in Edinburgh . |
| 12 | Ms Starnes , who had once worked for him in the news department of WSGN Radio in Birmingham , Alabama , agreed at once that he should cover pending events in Libya for Mutual Radio and promised to get the necessary credentials to him within 48 hours . |
| 13 | Back in Ockleton 's rooms at Breakspear , seated by a roaring fire and sipping finer port than he could ever recall tasting , he had asked Ockleton to explain his reaction earlier to Harry 's revelation that Alan Dysart had once worked for him in Swindon . |
| 14 | And the Oldham boo-boys were still screaming for him to be substituted when he headed an injury-time winner . |
| 15 | But surely there should have been more help for him at the beginning , when he first found out he carried the virus . |
| 16 | Pip secretly arranges for him to be taken into partnership by Clarriker , a rising young merchant , and he prospers , working for the firm in the East and is eventually able to marry his sweetheart Clara Barley . |
| 17 | The landowner 's agent may also act for him in negotiations with conservationists and engineers to secure the parcels of riverside land required for habitat protection and enhancement . |
| 18 | Joshua Morris looked down his calendar of events , carefully prepared for him by his secretary . |
| 19 | ‘ I wondered if you also acted for him in his private affairs ? ’ |
| 20 | He had a picture in his mind of the layout of passage , stairs and landing , a picture unwittingly painted for him by the man who had retrieved his wallet . |
| 21 | But back to Worcestershire , where Moody got two early Championship hundreds in a summer so far restricted for him by shin and ankle-ligament problems : where the worries over Dilley 's Achilles tendon and knee wo n't go away ; where Hick 's form remains enigmatic ; where left-hander Adam Seymour , the Millfield boy who switched from Essex — at appeared an astute and logical career move for him — has so far failed to make an impact on the banks of the Severn . |
| 22 | I could really go for him in a big way , but he 's going steady with the staff nurse on Rainbow . |
| 23 | ‘ I did n't fall for him at once , ’ says Hilary . |
| 24 | He brought me down here to work for him under false pretences . |
| 25 | This he etched in outline on a copper plate , and a print was immediately prepared for him on a piece of drawing-paper . |
| 26 | He had n't contacted her since that early-morning call yesterday , and she wondered if he truly expected her to sit here , simply waiting for him like the princess in the tower . |
| 27 | I think it 's it 's hard for me to say because I did n't work for him for long . |
| 28 | Tony was supposed to have been singing in a Black Sabbath ‘ reunion ’ in the States , which did n't happen for him in the end , but that gave us some breathing space . |
| 29 | ‘ Oh — but she do n't care for him at all . |
| 30 | To Neil , hide-bound Englishman that he was , Philip Arbuthnot was best described as Irish , because he could n't account for him in any other way . |