Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] for him in " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The impetuous young man became infatuated with the dancer Barberoni , was summoned home from Europe , and a ‘ safe ’ marriage negotiated for him in 1749 to his first cousin Lady Elizabeth Campbell , daughter of John , second Duke of Argyll [ q.v . ] . |
| 3 | Mr. Beck was a formidably powerful personality and doubtless would have passed any examination set for him in his profession — indeed , he did so . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | It is a matter of dispute how they parted ; friends of Hayward suggest that Eliot left Carlyle Mansions on the morning of the marriage , leaving only a note of explanation behind — or , even , that he told Hayward as the taxi waited for him in the street below . |
| 6 | She remembered the time she had returned the coffee she had borrowed from him , and how she had instinctively known there was a woman waiting for him in this very room . |
| 7 | When he and Poins scatter Falstaff and his robber band they speak verse to each other at the end of the scene ( II.ii.104ff. ) , and as soon as Falstaff has gone into hiding Hal addresses the Sheriff searching for him in verse ( II.iv.506 ) . |
| 8 | The real argument is not how a doctor 's conduct can be characterized , but whether under the circumstances he has fulfilled his duty to the patient to care for him in good faith . |
| 9 | The old man had a house built for him in a pretty little Warwickshire village a few miles from Stratford , with the Avon flowing through the garden . |
| 10 | The English form requires the applicant to specify the name of an English solicitor to act for him in England . |