Example sentences of "[verb] for [pron] [prep] his " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had sent her , with Ned and the barmaids and Heaven knew how many others watching , to wait for him in his bed . |
| 2 | At the same time as the Nun 's Priest is made to try to claim for himself in his tale the equivalent of : he , or Chaucer , reassures those who are able to share in the joke that the opposite is the case . |
| 3 | ‘ He 's old enough to have respect for one who cared for him during his teenage years . |
| 4 | Before kiln operator Steve Kelly died at 55 , he asked for help to be given to the team of Macmillan nurses who cared for him in his last months . |
| 5 | But the moment the military dictatorship resorted to armed aggression against British subjects the radical student protester , who cared for nothing but his ideals and for justice , freedom and equality , unhesitatingly sided with the invaders and began to protest , not against them , but against his own government 's attempts to restore the freedom , democratic rights and civil liberty of those who had lost them ! |
| 6 | And look at her … turning soft with admiration for a man who cared for nothing but his ambition . |
| 7 | One evening he asked for one with his coffee , which I gave him . |
| 8 | But at the age of forty he was at last beginning to wonder whether the image he created for himself in his twenties could stay with him for ever . |
| 9 | Abberley looks for something by his bed . ) |
| 10 | He cares for nothing except his own self-gratification . |
| 11 | If my father ca n't provide a decent standard of living for me on his present salary , then he will just have to start looking for another job . |
| 12 | A velvet court dress made for him by his fellow tailors is to go on show at the Croydon Museum . |
| 13 | At this point the Bosnian refugee leaped on to the stage on a small wooden horse , designed and built for him by his mother . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Joshua Morris looked down his calendar of events , carefully prepared for him by his secretary . |
| 16 | ‘ He got away from me and came for me with his fists . |
| 17 | He felt like it was asking him a question or searching for something in his mind . |
| 18 | It was the sacrament of justification by grace ; the physical , palpable reminder that God acted for him without his aid and prior to his response . |
| 19 | ‘ I wondered if you also acted for him in his private affairs ? ’ |
| 20 | He was waiting for them with his barge by the first footbridge over the canal as they came down from the moor . |
| 21 | They reached the stables and found Murtach waiting for them with his sword strapped to his back and a quiver of arrows at his hip . |
| 22 | Up the slope , at the top of his semi-circular steps , Alexander Menzies was waiting for them in his best silk coat like a dandy at a ball , with a straightfaced young man standing by his side . |
| 23 | Ian Jack , my guide for the next part of the trip , was waiting for me with his new vehicle . |
| 24 | Mr Billings was waiting for me in his yard . |
| 25 | He lived for his reunion with Elizabeth ; all that sustained him until then was the daily letter from his new wife waiting for him in his lodgings . |
| 26 | And he paid for it with his life ( 31:8 ) . |
| 27 | She passed on to our agent the name Raphael , though he paid for it with his life . |
| 28 | He produced the receipt , Donleavy carefully itemized the equipment on a small yellow legal pad and Coleman signed for it with his code name , Benjamin B. |
| 29 | Strach has been on his last legs for the past 2 seasons and while he still produces high quality performances more often than not he is looking more tired with each game he plays , not suprising for someone of his age . |
| 30 | In other words , he is free to do what Picasso was trying to do for him in his painting . |