Example sentences of "[noun] for him [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | IGNORED our plea for him to address the ‘ Southgate Semiotics Society ’ — a body ‘ concerned with discussing the most poignant examples of what we believe to be ironic , individualist/regionalist and deconstructionist English . ’ |
| 2 | As he was the only able-bodied man on the farm , it was a constant struggle for him to make the mortgage payments . |
| 3 | And then she would look to Gary for him to begin the piano again , and she would look us straight in the eye for as long as possible , and she would sing : |
| 4 | My mother and I helped push him up the ladder into the attic ( not easy — he was no lightweight ) , and then passed up the bucket for him to quench the flames . |
| 5 | The not-so-dour Scot knows it will be a unique experience for him to take the visitor 's dressing room at the citadel where his deeds as player and manager became legend — as did his departure . |
| 6 | There would be opportunities for him to rejoin the council at a later date , however . |
| 7 | Officials refused to discuss his itinerary and , most unusually for such a senior member of the Royal Family , it was indicated that there was no plan for him to meet the public . |
| 8 | The many different Rocastle transfer rumours ( ‘ ROCKY XVIII : The Move to Derby ’ ) , and appeals for him to take the first-team field . |
| 9 | There was no need for him to use the overdraft . |
| 10 | No need for him to see the balance sheet . ’ |
| 11 | He became the contras ' military chief in the mid-1980s , but was ousted from the leadership in February 1990 [ see p. 37236 ] by a number of his fellow commanders who considered his background too tainted by human rights abuses and association with the corruption of the Somoza years for him to negotiate the eventual disbanding and resettlement of the contras [ for which see p. 37450 ] |
| 12 | In May papal backing was given to her conditions for return ; two legates brought letters urging the younger Despenser to assist the reconciliation of the king and queen , virtually a request for him to abandon the court , but they got no further than Dover where the king interviewed them and threatened them with death if they dared to publish the pope 's letters . |
| 13 | I have discussed this with Simon and have passed it on to Paul Ralph for him to gather the components together for you . |
| 14 | It must have been a million-to-one chance for him to hit the car right in the middle . ’ |
| 15 | Chief Inspector Salter was anxious to see him and she had made an appointment for him to see the Chief Superintendent later that day . |
| 16 | A new offer for him to challenge the world heavyweight champion , American Ruddick Bowe , is reportedly being thrashed out . |
| 17 | Gigantic , monstrous and powerful ; waiting on the stairs for him to open the door wide , so that it could seize him , drag him away and do to him what it had done to Pearce ? |
| 18 | He [ or she ] has to decide whether it is more in his pupils ' interests for him to accept the existence of the present social structure and to give them help to advance within it , or for him to have rejected it , on their behalf , as stifling , competitive and exploitative and to encourage them to find fulfilment within themselves and their environment . |
| 19 | Really it 's hard there was there was n't too much space for him to squeeze the ball back but he 's got to be looking to put the ball back from there . |
| 20 | Can , can I just I thought that my perceptions of this was there were twenty schemes already in existence er split between parish wardens and parish constables and there was gon na be a report put back to the er home secretary for him to decide the way forward and er that er we would wait for the evaluation of that scheme before we went further . |
| 21 | it 's not like a good enough reason for him to call the characters these names , like if they do n't have that much significance . |
| 22 | It was obvious that he did n't care a fig what she looked like , but that was no reason for him to tighten the purse-strings . |
| 23 | Since Vic was not a forester , there was no reason for him to follow the quaint ways of the forest . |
| 24 | At all events , she had committed no crime , so there was no reason for him to pursue the matter any further . |
| 25 | However , the Vauxhall Sport result , where he was only beaten by the official team Subarus of Richard Burns and Alister McRae and finished ahead of the new Ford Escort Cosworths of Gwyndaf Evans , has provided sufficient encouragement for him to tackle the next round of the Open series , the Pirelli International on April 17/18 . |
| 26 | It takes just five seconds for him to eliminate the stress . |
| 27 | ‘ I was telling Sir Henry that it was rather late in the year for him to see the true beauty of the moor . ’ |
| 28 | She held out the bottle for him to read the label . |
| 29 | Gloucester was thus strengthening his grip on the duchy connection , but it was also in the interest of the crown for him to preserve the connection : an ambiguity emphasized by the fact that Ashton and Pilkington were royal as well as ducal servants . |
| 30 | Gloucester was thus strengthening his grip on the duchy connection , but it was also in the interest of the crown for him to preserve the connection : an ambiguity emphasized by the fact that Ashton and Pilkington were royal as well as ducal servants . |