Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] him for [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Horrible thought , but suppose she was just living with him for his money ? |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ It is sufficient to say that in Maskell v. Horner Lord Reading C.J. , referring to these authorities , and in particular to the advice given by Willes J. in Great Western Railway Co. v. Sutton — where that learned judge said that he had ‘ always understood that when a man pays more than he is bound to do by law for performance of a duty which the law says is owed to him for nothing , or for less than he has paid , there is a compulsion or concussion in respect of which he is entitled to recover the excess by condictio indebiti , or action for money had and received ’ — said that ‘ such claims made in this form of action are treated as matters of ordinary practice and beyond discussion . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ when a man pays more than he is bound to do by law for the performance of a duty which the law says is owed to him for nothing , or for less than he has paid , there is a compulsion or concussion in respect of which he is entitled to recover the excess by condictio indebiti , or action for money had and received . |
| 5 | Early claims the money is owed to him for his work on the record , the biggest selling rap album of all time , having shifted in excess of 20 million copies . |
| 6 | I ca n't reproduce the way he talks — you 'll have to listen to him for yourself — but he just sort of zooms off . |
| 7 | In return his father rages at him for his inability to become a ‘ real ’ man , and demands as the only acceptable proof that Lucio has regained his masculinity that he attack the very next man he sees and sexually assault the first woman ( iv . |
| 8 | Former Scottish international Rodger , who won the men 's singles last year in the Middlesbrough Borough Councilsupported event , has a particular strong field competing against him for his title . |
| 9 | He ignored her question ( " because I 'm a woman " , thought Miriam ) but smiled soothingly and said : " Will you look after him for me , Mrs Lang ? |
| 10 | ‘ You 'll look after him for me , wo n't you ? ’ she 'd said to me after we 'd got him unpacked and she could n't think of anything else which might prevent her from leaving . |
| 11 | Look after him for nothing ? |
| 12 | There was a long long silence , then , ‘ Look after him for me , Leith , ’ Rosemary requested , and rang off . |
| 13 | Will you come look after him for us ? |
| 14 | Unlike Kissinger , Le Duc Tho declined the Nobel Peace Prize offered to him for his role in negotiating the agreements . |
| 15 | We always had to chase after him for it and he 'd never give her more than a pound a week . |
| 16 | Why not go back and let Charlie get rid of him for me ? |
| 17 | If she relied on him for anything , it never happened . |
| 18 | It had made the Marchese a small fortune when he sold it to the deputy of the English connoisseur in Naples who was going to ship it away in boxes ; it was being stripped from the walls when the Government heard of it and came and sealed up the villa again , but not before one of the intermediaries had sliced enough off the top of the deal to pay his passage to America , promising to send after him for his family . |
| 19 | My husband had many friends there and they sometimes called on him for his help and advice . |
| 20 | ‘ No names , no pack drill , but I know somebody who works for her and she was saying that Diana will be jolly pleased to have a lump sum to spend instead of having to go to him for her money . |
| 21 | Knowing her husband , if he could be led to believe that the royal castle of Berwick might be alienated from the crown and actually given to him for his services , he would be the more apt to accede to the arrangement , being a man of acquisitive mind . |
| 22 | God 's mighty instrument is the lives that are wholly given to Him for His purpose . |
| 23 | He released Lucien 's wrist and turned his back , lifting his arms over his head , reaching behind him for his shoulders . |
| 24 | The young woman remembers how her mother would leave home at 5am day after day , and wait in the Marmoura forest near where the King used to play golf in an effort to plead with him for her husband 's life . |
| 25 | Mr David Bernstein was not the subject of investigation or prosecution and we apologize to him for our error . |
| 26 | The Joker is a very intelligent horse and knows his ‘ covering bridle ’ which we use on him for his studwork , or his ordinary bridle when he is ridden , and behaves accordingly . |
| 27 | Yet that was the situation Rodet was accepting ; and Wolff had not sneered at him for it . |
| 28 | Randy Sherwood , who was known as the Cock of the South , had a handicap of two and was so glamorous with his long , long legs and curly hair that fell perfectly into shape , that girls clamoured to groom for him for nothing . |
| 29 | He of course was the man of the match on th Saturday , he sat here for the interview clutching the bottle of champagne that the club patrons had awarded to him for his performance . |
| 30 | The traffic he had cut into blared at him for his boorish behaviour . |