Example sentences of "for him [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was the Principal Scientific Officer Document Examiner , and she had worked for him as a young S.O . |
| 2 | Or let him acknowledge that while it is rational doubt for him as a liberal humanist to criticize the Buddhist , the Marxist or the Christian , it might equally be a rational doubt for the Marxist to criticize him as a humanist . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | He knew that Elizabeth and her mother regarded Sarah 's feelings for him as a girlish infatuation ; something to be smiled about , with tolerant affection . |
| 5 | One day her mother came looking for him with a great heavy umbrella in her hand . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | After all , I had ‘ covered ’ the Boys ' Parliament sessions and other church activities for him on a free lance basis , and I was sure he knew I was determined to take up journalism as a full-time and life-long career . |
| 8 | If Paul Fisher , another rich escapee from the smog , was hoping to drag his native city into the line of 1746 fashion , he chose the wrong architect when he asked Isaac Ware to design Clifton Hill House for him on an awkward shelf of eastward-facing garden . |
| 9 | His estates were , moreover , a heterogeneous collection , put together with an eye to providing him with an income rather than creating a political niche for him at a regional level . |
| 10 | His estates were , moreover , a heterogeneous collection , put together with an eye to providing him with an income rather than creating a political niche for him at a regional level . |
| 11 | In City Fur Manufacturing Co. v. Fureenbond ( 1937 K.B. ) A owned some skins which were stored for him at an independent warehouse . |
| 12 | When he arrived at work that morning the result of their labours was waiting for him in a blue folder . |
| 13 | Folly finished the sentence for him in a flat voice that she hardly recognised as being her own . |
| 14 | Well , I was doing this for him in a loving sort of wifely way and he said , ‘ Oh , by the way , I want to get rid of you ’ and I said , ‘ Thank you very much ’ and he said , ‘ Well , finish the trousers and post them on . ’ |
| 15 | There was unlikely to be a place for him in a reconstituted kingdom of Aquitaine that included Septimania and was ruled by Charles the Bald . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | She cut up his dinner for him in a charming , solicitous way . |
| 18 | I could really go for him in a big way , but he 's going steady with the staff nurse on Rainbow . |
| 19 | On the other hand , if the half-pay officer was trying to maintain an impoverished existence as an unwanted guest in the home of a brother , he ( and the brother ) could become very anxious to secure a place for him in an active formation , in spite of the poor pay and poorer prospects . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Legend has it that the first ‘ teddy bear ’ was created for him after an unsuccessful hunting trip . |