Example sentences of "[verb] for him [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 But , Father , I never meant to kill , when I slipped out alone , and went to wait for him on the path by which I knew he must return .
2 I 'd been caddying for Ralph Moffatt on the pro circuit and got him through the pre-qualifier at Fairhaven , so I told him I 'd be caddying for him in the Open as I 'd heard nothing from Jack .
3 After attempting to speak to his ex-girl friend on the telephone and finding she was out he decided to have another drink , and then started to think about taking some tablets which his GP had prescribed for him at the time when his girl friend had left him .
4 He had a picture in his mind of the layout of passage , stairs and landing , a picture unwittingly painted for him by the man who had retrieved his wallet .
5 He feared that another show , arranged for him through the Lefevre Gallery , at Durlacher Bros , 11 East 57th Street , New York , would also have to be delayed as by the end of the summer he had not done enough work .
6 After the overthrow of Avitus in 456 Majorian had to use force to bring the Visigoths into line , but thereafter they fought for him against the Sueves in Spain .
7 Something made for him in the darkness and struck him a violent blow just under the knee .
8 FALKLANDS war hero Simon Weston is to tackle an 800-mile journey in America on a £2,000 cycle specially designed for him by the Lotus car company .
9 Huy had returned to his house in order to work out a way of getting into the brothel known by the impious name of the Glory of Set — Nebamun had been right , he found that he simply could not let the whole thing drop , and now there was a friend 's death to be avenged — when the message had come for him from the palace compound .
10 If he was not at the reception hopper grizzleys , it is quite probable that she would wait for him at the entrance to Deep Level .
11 He often went out alone , Italian style , and Jeanne would wait for him in the street after the cafés closed .
12 Never mind , I 'll wait for him in the car . ’
13 I tell you , one night , if we knew he was coming , we would wait for him round the back and pitch him down the falls ! ’
14 Beside him sat a man of such immense proportions that Eddie Stratton wondered how he could ever fit into the seat that had been booked for him on the flight to Heathrow , scheduled to leave in forty minutes ' time .
15 Posing as a Lebanese cocaine buyer , he had flown to Los Angeles with a suitcase full of counterfeit US currency provided by DEA Nicosia and checked into a room booked for him by the DEA at the Sheraton Universal hotel .
16 Uncle Tommy , along with the Fawcetts and John Thwaites from High Birk Hatt , used to work for him during the grouse season .
17 Little was done for him in the three years up to his seventeenth birthday when , like so many others , he found companionship and , ironically , the security he craved for by joining the army .
18 Much of McQueen 's acting was done for him by the make-up of Charles Schram , who effectively ages him over his years of solitary confinement .
19 The particulars must also be confirmed by or on behalf of the clearing member , and again this is usually done for him by the exchange 's electronic system .
20 He was retained by the king as one of his serjeants between 1287 and 1293 and is to be found acting for him in the 1287 Gloucestershire eyre and in the northern circuit eyres of 1292–3 as well as in the Common Bench and in the Exchequer .
21 Donal was married on August 29 and shortly afterwards an appointment was made for him at the Royal Marsden Hospital in London .
22 It is conceivable , too , that the Sihtric dux who witnesses three of Cnut 's charters may be the Dublin monarch Sihtric Silkbeard , who used dies evidently made for him in the mint at Chester to strike pennies naming him king of the Irish and modelled on Cnut 's Quatrefoil type .
23 He 'd had a new set made for him by the professional but somehow could not get used to them .
24 I told myself he might have meant us to meet at the Festival , so I went along there and searched for him in the crowd . ’
25 He had adopted his slighting manner , he knew , to protect himself from the attraction which she had possessed for him from the first moment that he had seen her .
26 They 're looking for him on the moors . ’
27 Nobody would think of looking for him in the Channel Islands .
28 For that reason , he has omitted his more fragile or delicate works in favour of robustness , playing with various permutations in a 1:20 model built for him by the Richard Rogers Partnership .
29 He was not aware of any post being sought for him by the Government and , if offered one , would have turned it down .
30 It was an hour before he was discovered missing and we spent the rest of the afternoon searching for him in the woods and plains surrounding the house .
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