Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] him for [art] " in BNC.

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1 She had looked at him for a long time , at first solemnly and then with mounting anger .
2 John Aubrey [ q.v. ] may have lodged with him for a time .
3 The producer Jerome Hellman had seen Dustin in Eh ? and had thought of him for the part way back then .
4 On the latter 's arrival , they had talked to him for a while and then he had gone off with them .
5 I found one guy and talked to him for a while on tape .
6 He applied for a grant of land and this was sold to him for a nominal sum .
7 One of these , Jimmie , was used by him for a harmless demonstration of the electrocardiogram at the Royal Society and became the subject of a famous parliamentary reply to a question from the anti-vivisection lobby ( Hansard , 8 July 1909 ) .
8 ‘ No , I have not heard from him for a month now . ’
9 Émile Chaillot told me that he had telephoned the writer and spoken to him for a good seven minutes about what was going on in the music world .
10 For him it held a special appeal ; the one day of the week he could break bread with his family and not have to feel that they were only loaned to him for the while — his son Joshua had no business to go to , his grandson Jacob no college lectures .
11 None the less in 1329 he did simple homage ( all that was asked of him for the moment ) at Amiens , following this up with liege homage in 1331 .
12 Becky 's dark eyes fixed on him for the first time .
13 Section 245B provides that , as an alternative to an application to the court by the Secretary of State , such an application may be made ‘ by any person authorised by him for the purposes of this section . ’
14 I KNEW of Doctor Ladislav Mareda through British friends who had worked with him for the English-language section of Prague radio until the crushing of the Prague Spring in 1968 .
15 A person whom there are grounds to suspect of an offence must be cautioned before any questions about it ( or further questions if it is his answers to previous questions that provide grounds for suspicion ) are put to him for the purpose of obtaining evidence which may be given to a court in a prosecution .
16 ‘ A person whom there are grounds to suspect of an offence must be cautioned before any questions about it ( or further questions if it is his answers to previous questions that provide grounds for suspicion ) are put to him for the purpose of obtaining evidence which may be given to a court in a prosecution .
17 To lose him would be worse than losing himself : it would be losing the only chance left to him for the life he had always and violently lusted after .
18 Normally she would have screamed at him for the minute splinters she knew he must be creating , but now she kept her anger for other matters .
19 In addition to the attendance or financial loss allowance , a member may also claim travelling and subsistence allowances necessarily incurred by him for the purpose of performing an approved duty .
20 And when he 'd finished , Ted had stared at him for a moment in open disbelief .
21 She 'd slaved for him for the last seven year , and before that ever since she was born — eight or nine year was it — at the Old Mint ?
22 Save as provided in regulation 36 of these regulations , no person , being a motor trader and the holder of a trade vehicle , shall use any mechanically propelled vehicle on a public road by virtue of that licence unless it is a vehicle which is temporarily in his possession in the course of his business as a motor trader or a recovery vehicle kept by him for the purpose of dealing with disabled vehicles in the course of that business .
23 Accordingly , the tenant will have carried out substantial improvements , the cost of which will form a large part of the consideration given by him for the grant of the lease .
24 A manuscript of poems was assembled by him for the Professor to view ; the intention being ( and Dudek was very well experienced in this sort of work ) for him to take the matter over and see it through to publication .
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