Example sentences of "[vb pp] for him [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has such great familiarity with the keyboard that when it is hidden for him by a cloth spread over it , he plays on this cloth with the same speed and the same precision . |
| 2 | At the end , you get to be inside Richie 's head as he righteously kicks the poor woman to death after she 's come for him with a hatchet in each hand . |
| 3 | But you 'd got hold of him , and you 'd squeezed him till the pips rattled , and you 'd done for him as a man . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Legal sources said an underground cell was being prepared for him on a maximum security row at the federal penitentiary in Marion , Illinois , America 's most chilling jail . |
| 6 | This he etched in outline on a copper plate , and a print was immediately prepared for him on a piece of drawing-paper . |
| 7 | From all that he heard , it was clear that Gaddafi 's position had been secured for him in a way that his palace guard and secret police could never have managed on their own . |
| 8 | To cut a long story short , he could n't make the grade so he ended up as a pharmacist in the business his father bought for him as a going concern . |
| 9 | The door was opened for him by a secretary who sat alone in a corner . |
| 10 | The Minister of Labour , Ernest Bevin , received a message which he had decoded for him in a Leeds hotel by Albert Heal , a trade union leader who had run a pre-war escape route for German socialists that still had watertight communications . |
| 11 | In Nicholson v. Harper ( 1895 ) A owned some goods stored for him at a warehouse . |
| 12 | In City Fur Manufacturing Co. v. Fureenbond ( 1937 K.B. ) A owned some skins which were stored for him at an independent warehouse . |
| 13 | Old Aaron Kleiber built up a little tailoring business , and for a time Ruth had worked for him as a seamstress , together with Sarah Vogel , another immigrant , and Rosie O'Dell , Connor and Sean 's half-sister . |
| 14 | He was the Principal Scientific Officer Document Examiner , and she had worked for him as a young S.O . |
| 15 | Legend has it that the first ‘ teddy bear ’ was created for him after an unsuccessful hunting trip . |
| 16 | they do n't want to have some er official or or some management consultant who 's eager to get a job and get extra money paid for him by a dumb government department , if those people are going to tell us what sort of people we want on that on police authorities , I think it is total insolence and I trust that whatever happens to this Bill that that answer that was given on the 17th of January is removed and replaced by something else , if it has to be replaced at all . |
| 17 | The national Labour defeat , of course , denies Mr Mandelson the government post widely predicted for him as a consequence of his guru status within his party ; the Hartlepool runner-up , radio and PR man Mr Graham Robb , put up the Conservative vote by a thousand but was still 8,782 adrift . |