Example sentences of "for him [to-vb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All they wanted was for him to sit still as a stone — to be a piece of scenery , a decoration like one of the stone angels he had watched the Mason carve , up in the roofs of churches . |
| 2 | By the end of 1969 his success had been just sufficient for him to collect some sponsorship for 1970 , when he raced in a Lotus 59 . |
| 3 | Another welcome gain is that if a husband 's income is too low for him to use all or part of the married couple 's allowance , he can request that the unused part be transferred to his wife — thus reducing his wife 's tax bill . |
| 4 | I 'd lastly like to say a thank you to Kevin , because I think , as a man , it is obviously more difficult for him to broach this subject , and he 's been pursuing this through APEX through for a very long time , and has worked extremely hard , so I 'd like to say thank you to him , and thank you to you now for taking the message back home . |
| 5 | Berry dismisses criticism of climbs of this kind , made recently by Reinhiold Messner among others : ‘ It 's all very well for him to say this kind of thing , but when he climbed Everest for the first time without oxygen and on other occasions , he was quite happy to make use of heavyweight-style expeditions . |
| 6 | In the backs , Kenny Logan has had a somewhat disappointing season after being capped in Australia last summer , but the stage is set for him to recover lost ground , as it is for his Stirling County colleague , Ian Jardine . |
| 7 | In the backs , Kenny Logan has had a somewhat disappointing season after being capped in Australia last summer , but the stage is set for him to recover lost ground , as it is for his Stirling County colleague , Ian Jardine . |
| 8 | To one who had waited so long , this letter would scarcely have indicated that the time had come for him to take vigorous action on his own . |
| 9 | Anthony , predictably enough Julia thought , decided that his patients needed him too much for him to take any kind of holiday over the Easter weekend , but he made no objection to David 's formal request to take Julia away to stay with his mother . |
| 10 | Ridley said that the Director of Public Prosecutions had now withdrawn his earlier objections to such a publication , but it would not be in the public interest for him to take any further action on the matter . |
| 11 | But for him to go self-employed will cost him more money than doing it on the bl black market . |
| 12 | Even Ipuky could not arrange for him to see this body , and he no longer had the cachet of officialdom with which to browbeat the embalmer . |
| 13 | Besides , sometimes a person 's consent to a right or benefit is required for him to acquire that right or a benefit . |
| 14 | He looked at Bigwig , as though waiting for him to ask another question . |
| 15 | It was not enough for him to call individual sinners to God . |
| 16 | Even he had definite symptomatic and endoscopic benefit from additional radiotherapy and his general conditioned improved enough for him to undergo successful surgery . |
| 17 | Lee was on a downslope , and it seemed absolutely impossible for him to finish close . |
| 18 | That lack of leadership makes it difficult for him to do other than cavil at our figures . |
| 19 | For the scene when Benjamin is trying to get a room key , Nichols suggested that Dustin find in his life what was the most painful thing for him to do that had a sexual connotation , in a public way . |
| 20 | He added : ‘ No-one works harder than Faldo and I admire him because it must be very difficult for him to do that . |
| 21 | Since I have been in the Chair , the Chief Secretary has been interrupted so often that there has not been much opportunity for him to do that . |
| 22 | Erm , so I 'm hoping that that will work , it 's it 's down in the diary for him to do that , and and I 've given a little note about what the Adult School is all about . |
| 23 | If these figures are right that we 've been given by the department and I 'm not saying them whether they 're right or whether they 're wrong but well we have to r rely on what we 're getting this is why Mr is sending this lot to the Chief Executive for him to do some work I think it 's very important that it is done independently , not by the independent sector but by done independently . |
| 24 | We do not want every child to become an artist — heaven forbid , but we do want every child to grow and be enriched by his imaginative experiences , and the study and observation and attempts at expressing these , in colour and form , is one way for him to do this . |
| 25 | It was as if Marcus were actually waiting for him to effect some magical release or communication . |
| 26 | No matter how he tried , he could not judge exactly when to empty the pot before it became too heavy for him to carry all the way to the bathroom . |
| 27 | But mind you , according to some people it was virtually impossible for him to beget any bastards , but still . |
| 28 | It 's safe for him to inhabit this familiar , friendly bundle of clichés . |
| 29 | There 's another reason for him to seem dated . |
| 30 | The solicitors had a conflict of interests , and should have arranged for him to receive independent legal advice . |