Example sentences of "[verb] for him [prep] [pron] " 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 | He remembered their talk together and the bleak picture she had painted for him of her life . |
| 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 | A velvet court dress made for him by his fellow tailors is to go on show at the Croydon Museum . |
| 6 | At this point the Bosnian refugee leaped on to the stage on a small wooden horse , designed and built for him by his mother . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Joshua Morris looked down his calendar of events , carefully prepared for him by his secretary . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | ‘ I wondered if you also acted for him in his private affairs ? ’ |
| 11 | He went out of the bedroom and down the stairs to the hallway where Matilda Jenkins was waiting for him with her hand out . |
| 12 | All the same it was Dr Kate Ash who was waiting for him in her small flat , dressed in one of her smart business suits , two matching cases ready by her side . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | He and the princess still talk about the spaghetti suppers she cooked for him at her flat in Earl 's Court . |
| 15 | Kit Everard was not a vain man , and he knew that even in the encounters that had given Ariel some pleasure ( later , when he 'd learned to check his premature excitement with her ) , she had not cared for him with her heart . |
| 16 | In other words , he is free to do what Picasso was trying to do for him in his painting . |
| 17 | She liked his quiet manner , his bookish looks , his thin hands emerging from the voluminous sleeves of jerseys knitted for him by his mother who plainly , in her mind 's eye , saw him as a strapping youth of six foot two . |
| 18 | One lunchtime Minton , wearing what seemed to her a hideous sweater knitted for him by his mother , sat opposite her in the school restaurant . |
| 19 | The Prophet , having missed his first killing strike , realised he would have to move fast to avoid capture by the trap set for him by his hated enemy . |
| 20 | Mr. Beck was a formidably powerful personality and doubtless would have passed any examination set for him in his profession — indeed , he did so . |
| 21 | ‘ You mean she 's frightened of the doctor and she thinks you 're going to send for him behind her back ? ’ |
| 22 | I sent for him to his private address as soon as I got the news but he has to get up from Winchester . ’ |
| 23 | Dustin seemed to behave towards fame with a certain cynicism , rather like Ben Braddock at the party thrown for him by his parents to celebrate his graduation . |
| 24 | LOUTH pensioner and long serving employee , known to his friends as , celebrated his 80th birthday with a surprise party thrown for him by his family and friends . |
| 25 | He had liked Susan Moffat who , for two years , had worked for him as his S.O . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | I waited for him in our little house by the Smithy but he never came . |
| 28 | And then they come for him , and then , you come for him in your car |
| 29 | He completed his studies and married a girl chosen for him by his parents . |