Example sentences of "[noun] for him [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Section 17(10) defines children in need as follows : a child shall be taken to be in need if : ( a ) he is unlikely to achieve or maintain , or to have the opportunity of achieving or maintaining , a reasonable standard of health or development without the provision for him of services by a local authority under [ Part III of the Act ] ; ( b ) his health or development is likely to be significantly impaired , without the provision for him of such services ; or ( c ) he is disabled . |
| 2 | Mrs Beamson 's eight-year-old son has been diagnosed as suffering from severe dyslexia and she claims the county 's education policy will not make adequate provision for him at secondary school level . |
| 3 | He discovered from his eunuchs what Roshanara had been up to , and , despite her support for him over many years , he disgraced her . |
| 4 | Take this one , for example ; walking along the canal towpath at this late hour of the night , as if it was the park on a pleasant Sunday afternoon and life held no dangers for him at all . |
| 5 | This boy is clearly highly disturbed and there are dangers for him in either of the options which were open to the justices to make the order or to refuse it . |
| 6 | It had n't been an easy decision for him in any regard . |
| 7 | The pressure from London , however , was unrelenting : ‘ Gould has been so clamorous lately ’ , Lear wrote to Jardine , ‘ at my not having done any Birds of Europe for him , that I must do a batch for him without further delay . ’ |
| 8 | My uncle managed to find work for him on one of the nearby farms and the family moved in with him . |
| 9 | He knew the Professor had arranged matters for him in this way , and was grateful . |
| 10 | Frank Sinatra , previous holder of the golden oldie crown , was a mere stripling of 71 when New York New York was a hit for him in 1986 . |
| 11 | That was some going– but we would have a place for him in any Palace gallery even without it . |
| 12 | By the way , do you have a name for him at all ? |
| 13 | This occurs about every three months , and I doubt that life would be half as much fun for him without this sort of ritual . |
| 14 | The woman is the carrier of evolution for him in one way or another . |
| 15 | free to come and go and er there is a contribution that 's held at the back , but here in , in the talk it 's highlighting their various ways , this is one of them that we can keep spiritually awake is by being aware of the need for financial contributions , Jehovah has done much for us through his organization and we can show love for him by full support with our time and finances and then another one look stay awake by showing love to you and act loyal sometimes it 's easier to show love to some in the congregation than others , we naturally have an affinity for one another and certain types of personalities seemed to gel with others do n't they ? |
| 16 | I got a , good buy for him on that coat he 's wearing , got it in Benny 's . |
| 17 | For her the world was full of young men whose bodies were untainted by disease and these — he persuaded himself — were the ones she really craved , having no care for him at all , except some morbid interest in a diseased thing , which , presently , she would thrust aside with a disdainful shudder . |
| 18 | But the history of his life so far shows ( and he freely admits it ) that old John Barleycorn lies in wait for him with implacable patience . |
| 19 | Don McKay , then Rovers ' manager , paid £250,000 for him on New Year 's Day last year . |
| 20 | A machine may well perform these tasks for him for some considerable period of time , but it has come to be accepted that once the brain can be shown to be dead , the machine is not keeping the patient ‘ alive ’ in any accepted sense of the word ; it is merely ventilating a corpse . |
| 21 | The first Earl of Sheffield , John Barker Holroyd , employed James Wyatt to create a new Wealden house for him in 1779 ; the result is a charming Gothick creation that served as one of the earliest positive reactions against the classical formality of much eighteenth-century building . |
| 22 | It was not a good time for him in many ways . |
| 23 | A piece of land that had held no particular interest for him at all until the arrival of its new estate manager . |