Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] for he [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gatting , back after serving three years of a five-year ban for his part in the rebel tour of South Africa , has unselfishly not forgotten how Gower fought for him to be his understudy in the sub-continent . |
| 2 | They 've got all his tablets sorted for him for coming home . |
| 3 | Philip went back to Richard 's rooms in college to wait for him on this night of undreamt-of triumph , to enjoy it with him , to talk it through . |
| 4 | Peter had heard all this , sitting at the kitchen table with a cup of tea , and a sandwich made for him by Anna to sustain him to the far side of compline . |
| 5 | He had heart-shaped cuff-links and a heart-shaped ring made for him by Child & Child , and in 1888 commissioned a heart-shaped , leather jewel box for his daughter Margaret . |
| 6 | And , on his way to meet the Prime Minister , Mr Delors bumped his head on the car waiting for him at Heathrow . |
| 7 | So he passed over and the trumpets sounded for him on the other side . ’ |
| 8 | One lunchtime Minton , wearing what seemed to her a hideous sweater knitted for him by his mother , sat opposite her in the school restaurant . |
| 9 | Dana 's shrill voice made Claudia jump away from Roman as if she were guilty of something , but Roman had only been about to say he had asked Dana to model for him in order to get to know her better . |
| 10 | Hare did admit to Ian Wright , who caddied for Seve Ballesteros , that he would feel intimidated if Wright carried for him at La Manga . |
| 11 | Hare did admit to Ian Wright , who caddied for Seve Ballesteros , that he would feel intimidated if Wright carried for him at La Manga . |
| 12 | Agassi withdrew last Friday from the grass court event in Halle , but yesterday he took the last remaining wild card reserved for him by tournament organisers hopeful he would be fit to play . |
| 13 | It was an hour before he was discovered missing and we spent the rest of the afternoon searching for him in the woods and plains surrounding the house . |
| 14 | The design for Isvik was influenced to quite a marked degree by the Peterhead-type sailing vessels of the Mounties , also by a sketch made for him by that extraordinary Antarctic single-hander , David Lewis . |
| 15 | Like any actor who has to play many different parts , all Reagan wanted were a few good lines written for him on cue cards that he could quote without having to tax his own abilities . |
| 16 | There was space then for her free-fall to be guided , even as Lucifer 's had been guided , across the vast vacuity , down to a home prepared for him by his enemy . |
| 17 | A writ has been issued by the actress and her parents asking for him to be banned ‘ from entering or trespassing on the property or on the actual road ’ . |
| 18 | The impetuous young man became infatuated with the dancer Barberoni , was summoned home from Europe , and a ‘ safe ’ marriage negotiated for him in 1749 to his first cousin Lady Elizabeth Campbell , daughter of John , second Duke of Argyll [ q.v . ] . |
| 19 | There was no time for him to get up the steps and past the door before it opened and deadly talons reached for him in the darkness . |
| 20 | He completed his studies and married a girl chosen for him by his parents . |
| 21 | Liam complained that he had plenty to do with the new shop opening for him to be running around after doctors — ‘ just because a couple of kiddies are sick ’ . |
| 22 | Posing as a Lebanese cocaine buyer , he had flown to Los Angeles with a suitcase full of counterfeit US currency provided by DEA Nicosia and checked into a room booked for him by the DEA at the Sheraton Universal hotel . |
| 23 | Many of the records were based on collections made for him by W. S. Duncan , who lived in the islands ( Campbell , op. cit . ) . |
| 24 | Vincente caddied for him for a while but it was an awkward role for a big brother . |
| 25 | No one at the university was to know of his DIA connection , and to avoid any written record that might compromise his cover , Donleavy arranged for him to be paid during this period with American Express money orders drawn at 7–11 stores around Falls Church , Virginia . |
| 26 | The foundation is a complex of buildings which includes Son Abrines , the family home still occupied by Pilar , the artist 's widow , Son Boter , the old stone house which Miró employed as his graphics studio , coating its walls in charcoal sketches , the studio which Josep Luis Sert constructed for him in 1954–56 and where he worked until his death in 1983 , and the new exhibition centre of Sert 's pupil , Rafael Moneo , Dean of the Graduate Design School in Harvard . |
| 27 | The Prophet , having missed his first killing strike , realised he would have to move fast to avoid capture by the trap set for him by his hated enemy . |
| 28 | Mr. Beck was a formidably powerful personality and doubtless would have passed any examination set for him in his profession — indeed , he did so . |
| 29 | The parliamentary leader of the PRI , Antonio del Pennino , had an arrest warrant issued for him on May 14 . |
| 30 | His wife cares for him at home but this is very demanding and she finds that she needs regular breaks . |