Example sentences of "[prep] him for [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ace followed her , prudently shutting the big sliding glass doors after him for more privacy . |
| 2 | His mother could not be traced , but the tiny corpse was recognised by a lady who had looked after him for some time , before she , as many others , had done before her , had innocently replied to Mrs Dyer 's advertisement , disguised by the nom de plume Mrs Thomas . |
| 3 | One man was lost in the Mexican desert for eight days , having had only enough water with him for one day . |
| 4 | ‘ Offensive weapon means any article made or adapted for use for causing injury to the person or intended by the person having it with him for such use by him , or by some other person , per section 1(4) Prevention Of Crime Act 1953 as amended by the Public Order Act 1986 Schedule 2 paragraph 2 . |
| 5 | A weapon of offence is defined in s.10(1) ( b ) as " any article made or adapted for use for causing injury to or incapacitating a person or intended by the person having it with him for such use " . |
| 6 | I think the Algerians have been angry with him for some time and are prepared to let Polisario have a free hand . ’ |
| 7 | Or — and this more horrible idea had been very obscurely with him for some time — how had he dared to entertain it ? — perhaps Marcus — Marcus had spoken of evil yearnings , of a crime , perhaps committed already , perhaps in a dream — No , that was unthinkable , impossible . |
| 8 | Oh yeah , I mean I had a horrible time with him for some time and it just , just |
| 9 | And he er and he was really delighted of course , so he said , Well I 'm holiday and I 'll come round with the caravan , so I had my holiday which did n't make much difference because there was had to you know we were n't working really , and I went round with him for this week , all round and the villages everywhere . |
| 10 | Now here 's something to argue about this weekend … what would you say is the hardest … or toughest race to win in sport … football 's league title … formula one … the olympic marathon … how about the jockeys championship … they 've been off and running for six months and leading the chase is Oxfordshire ’ s Richard Dunwoody … we 're riding with him for this week 's Friday Feature |
| 11 | He walked slowly now towards the room , but as he passed his mother 's door he felt forced to stop and knock , not because he wanted to see her particularly , but because there was a great need in him for human company . |
| 12 | Nicholson , at this point , was in the news through the acclaim being bestowed upon him for Easy Rider , and his first taste of stardom was received with some apprehension ; his on-screen connections with marijuana and LSD also attracted a great deal of media coverage ; serious press interviews , with him personally as the focus and centre of attention , were also unfamiliar territory into which he ventured nervously , almost unsure of what he was going to say and how he was going to express his feelings and opinions ; he had plenty , and serious ones at that . |
| 13 | In September Richard wrote to the tenants of the archbishopric ordering them not to withhold their duties from Rotherham : ‘ We not willing any of his said rents and duties so to be withholden from him for any thing displeasing us . ’ |
| 14 | In September Richard wrote to the tenants of the archbishopric ordering them not to withhold their duties from Rotherham : ‘ We not willing any of his said rents and duties so to be withholden from him for any thing displeasing us . ’ |
| 15 | But I was in two minds about him for another reason : he was already too old for training purposes , and of course that was why I wanted a bird . |
| 16 | She had not seen her nearest ‘ big house ’ neighbour , though she had been hearing about him for some time . |
| 17 | And erm anyway we got more from the unemployment exchange that prepared to work for him for fourteen pound , when we could have a eighteen pound on the dole . |
| 18 | And I worked for him for five pound a day because we needed the money . |
| 19 | I am grateful to him for gentle handling . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Sir John Harington relates , however , how ‘ he would walk at certain hours in one of the aisles of St Paul 's , that if any came to him for spiritual advice and comfort ( as some did though not many ) he might impart it to them ’ . |
| 22 | With difficulty , he made his way towards her , Charlotte clinging to him for dear life . |
| 23 | He would always remember handing over the final payment , because it was on the same day as the first big aeroplane raid over London and he spent most of that night hiding under his father 's bed , with both Sal and Kitty clinging on to him for dear life . |
| 24 | When Hullmandel published his treatise The Art of Drawing on Stone in 1824 , the possibilities of lithography were better advertised ( although Hullmandel was careful not to describe the actual printing process , so that artists would have to come to him for that service ) , and Lear was one of the very first to be attracted to the technique . |
| 25 | She did n't want to be obliged to him for another lift . |
| 26 | Would she scream insults , or perhaps cling on to him for grim death and beg for another chance ? |
| 27 | His offence against those who came to him for medical help was less easy to punish . |
| 28 | She only knew that he was very serious and that this was important to him for some reason . |
| 29 | I looked up the name of my shop steward — Chris Pike — in a recent union bulletin , wrote to him for further information and he invited me up to the Branch Office . |
| 30 | People turn to him for mature counsel . |