Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] to him for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The organist and I finished more or less together and I turned to him for reassurance as I announced my next song : ‘ And now , ‘ ’ Summer Time' ’ . ' |
| 2 | you , er , it had happened because I had been , I had had a lot of training and a lot of swindles and thing , I was able to talked to him and I talked to him for an hour and a half er , I was curious for one thing to find out why he was , he , he was breaking into people 's houses , so that the fact that he was doing it for , to , to get money for drugs |
| 3 | I apologized to him for this but he said , " I 'm glad to be out of it . |
| 4 | I went to him for the political because I was a red hot loyalist at that time . |
| 5 | Marcus patted his lap and I went to him for a stroke . |
| 6 | And I said to him for God 's sake stop bloody well moaning cos we 've all got ta muck in ! |
| 7 | and a cup of coffee and a cigarette , and I always do that but this day I was so tired after the doing the garden , both gardens like and fucking weeding them all and doing everything else and brushing out the back and doing I said to him for fuck 's sake do them dishes for me for a change William would you I said , so I got er got myself in the bath said I 'm away to bingo , so William 's gone out what happened ? eight , I had eight he had one you may get yourself I said ah fuck no wonder I have no fucking luck , so on the settee and said I 'm not going anywhere , I sat for ten minutes then I said ah fuck you why should I sit here so I lifted the car keys and walked out again then , fucking zooming out of and there was John coming up like that |
| 8 | A mumbled , incoherent sound bubbled and surfaced in her throat , and she clung to him for support , her fingers twisting in the silk of his shirt . |
| 9 | She turned to him for comfort . |
| 10 | She talked to him for only a short while and left him a booklet with clear diagrams of the proposed surgery . |
| 11 | She looked to him for a lead and he gave it to her . |
| 12 | The King exerted his influence , not just because forty or fifty Members of Parliament held government posts , but because others in the House of Commons looked to him for financial help in fighting elections , or they looked to him for contracts , pensions , and favours for friends . |
| 13 | It occurred to him for the first time that Celia would be a bad enemy , just as she was a good friend . |
| 14 | 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 . |