Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] him for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Crowding round him for a share are , from left to right , Rousseau , Poupee and Héra ( her tiny son Hector just visible on her belly ) . |
| 2 | She had looked at him for a long time , at first solemnly and then with mounting anger . |
| 3 | She stood looking after him for a moment ; then she dropped on to an upturned box , and bending her head into the folds of flesh under her chin , she asked of herself why she had to do this . |
| 4 | John Aubrey [ q.v. ] may have lodged with him for a time . |
| 5 | Mr Hurd needs no minders , but the 60 Tory MPs who declined to support Mrs Thatcher for leader last week , plus MEPs , this week 's Lords report and many industrialists will be looking to him for a more emollient performance in difficult circumstances . |
| 6 | Mr Hurd needs no minders , but the 60 Tory MPs who declined to support Mrs Thatcher for leader last week , plus MEPs , this week 's Lords report and many industrialists will be looking to him for a more emollient performance in difficult circumstances . |
| 7 | Just to talk to him for a few minutes … |
| 8 | The young man sat looking at him for a moment , then raised his eyebrows , sat forward and took up his pen once more . |
| 9 | He was just about to shrug off the question with ‘ I du n no ’ when he noticed that George and the twins were looking at him for an answer . |
| 10 | Vincente caddied for him for a while but it was an awkward role for a big brother . |
| 11 | ‘ I was assigned to look after him for a while , ’ Harvey answered . |
| 12 | Johnson wrote to him in December 1987 , pleading with him for a meeting to settle the matter quietly to avoid lurid publicity in the mass media , and prevent damage to the church 's work with homeless people . |
| 13 | On the latter 's arrival , they had talked to him for a while and then he had gone off with them . |
| 14 | I found one guy and talked to him for a while on tape . |
| 15 | He applied for a grant of land and this was sold to him for a nominal sum . |
| 16 | Mr. Mendez seemed to stare at him for a While , thinking or just looking . |
| 17 | She frowned at him for a moment ; then her brow cleared . |
| 18 | One of these , Jimmie , was used by him for a harmless demonstration of the electrocardiogram at the Royal Society and became the subject of a famous parliamentary reply to a question from the anti-vivisection lobby ( Hansard , 8 July 1909 ) . |
| 19 | I always got on with my daughter , but she 's in Canada now , so I asked my son if I could stay with him for a bit . |
| 20 | ‘ I think so , but I 'll stay with him for a while , and just give him fluids . ’ |
| 21 | The current state of Preston 's finances put taxi rides across London among the long list of temptations he would have to put behind him for a while . |
| 22 | She could n't face seeing that realisation in his eyes , for the sake of her own sanity had to get away — had to flee from him for a second time . |
| 23 | Paul Devraux grinned at him for a moment , then raised a cynical eyebrow . |
| 24 | and went and sat in the corner of the bathroom and went , scowled at him for a bit ! |
| 25 | BELVILLE : I take her to an artful young baggage and had I a young handsome butler or steward she 'd soon make her market of one of them and snap at him for a husband . |
| 26 | Not till later was it diagnosed that the mental breakdown which destroyed Hoskyns crept upon him for a year or more before he died . |
| 27 | ‘ No , I have not heard from him for a month now . ’ |
| 28 | I told him I had learnt how to fight against him for a start . |
| 29 | Will talked with him for a few minutes , then gave him a penny . |
| 30 | When the bike 's owner , replete in heavy leather jacket appeared , Agassi chatted with him for a while before offering to buy the bike for £9,000 . |