Example sentences of "[vb past] for him in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Something made for him in the darkness and struck him a violent blow just under the knee . |
| 2 | ‘ I know very little about her , although she worked for him in the war too . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | She looked for him in the oven , the fridge , the wicker basket that held wastepaper beside her desk . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | You looked for him in the Green Room , but found only his jacket . |
| 7 | Here 's what I wrote in the obituary I did for him in The Guardian : |
| 8 | Marion searched for him in the crowded room , and found him at last , talking to Sue 's dad near the window . |
| 9 | Gareth Morgan , his deputy and confidante , waited for him in the large office with windows overlooking the City . |
| 10 | 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 . |