Example sentences of "[vb past] for him [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mother cared for him with a gentleness born out of genuine relief at still having him to care for . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Something made for him in the darkness and struck him a violent blow just under the knee . |
| 4 | Vincente caddied for him for a while but it was an awkward role for a big brother . |
| 5 | Seve finished second to Johnny Miller and after that I caddied for him until the end of 1979 . |
| 6 | The conclusive Senate vote was scheduled for Oct. 8 , but had to be delayed for seven days following revelation of new evidence from Anita Hill , 35 , a black University of Oklahoma teacher of law , who alleged that Thomas had subjected her to sexual harassment with explicit , pornographic suggestions when she worked for him at the Department of Education and the EEOC in the early 1980s . |
| 7 | Most important of all , he inspired the people who worked for him with a vision of what they were doing . |
| 8 | And er , see , my father , when they used to start the rounds , they used to start , go down the Fen on a Tuesday , er the man what worked for him over the road George worked for him there , a chap named George and my father used to go round Wicken , that 's three miles away from here . |
| 9 | ‘ I know very little about her , although she worked for him in the war too . |
| 10 | We called for him in a taxi at Faber 's , Margaret waiting inside the vehicle . |
| 11 | Well , he fired a pistol and someone went for him with the blade of a scythe . ’ |
| 12 | He held his hands up and admitted an error and we felt for him on the night . |
| 13 | Determined not to let him keep the advantage , she bundled the unwanted attraction she felt for him into a cupboard and locked the door on it , before retorting sweetly , ‘ Well , as your invitation was so pressing , I thought I might as well take full advantage of it . ’ |
| 14 | The fate of Mirabeau , for instance , would have been sealed by the lack of sympathy felt for him by the people , on account of their irritation with the Court 's defence of the old order . |
| 15 | There was no time for him to get up the steps and past the door before it opened and deadly talons reached for him in the darkness . |
| 16 | She flashed the note around , proudly though covertly , and looked for him at the bus stop , but she could not look for him without some misgiving . |
| 17 | She looked for him in the oven , the fridge , the wicker basket that held wastepaper beside her desk . |
| 18 | Adam wondered if Abigail sometimes woke up and looked for him in the dark , in the empty room , and fretted for a while before she began to cry . |
| 19 | You looked for him in the Green Room , but found only his jacket . |
| 20 | Now I supported Prescott , I must say I voted for him for the er for deputy leader , right , but I think he 's wrong , right , on this particular issue , this compromise that he 's floating and I think it should be dropped . |
| 21 | Yo yo you knew your clubman was coming , you 've stayed in and that is how our local clubman who is now dead , Mr became a councillor because naturally , people voted for him against the Conservative because he was someone they knew , someone like as came you know . |
| 22 | But his baptism , administered to him by another , sealing physically upon him the objectiveness of what Christ did for him on the cross , that was indeed a ground of assurance . |
| 23 | Here 's what I wrote in the obituary I did for him in The Guardian : |
| 24 | Marion searched for him in the crowded room , and found him at last , talking to Sue 's dad near the window . |
| 25 | Except that the flame was deep inside , in a place that longed for him in a way she had never felt before . |
| 26 | ‘ Ah , David , ’ said Julia , sighing as she waited for him on the pavement . |
| 27 | I waited for him for an hour , outside his half-built apartment building . |
| 28 | I waited and waited for him at the points and eventually met him about three or four o'clock in the morning for the first time . |
| 29 | Joseph hung back walking slowly as the others moved on again , and his mother , noticing his discomfited expression , waited for him at the side of the track . |
| 30 | Then there was nothing again but the darkness ; the darkness that he knew waited for him at the foot of the mountain . |