Example sentences of "him [verb] for [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Father vould n't really vant him to go for all the summer . ’ |
| 2 | Like Shujan he has had his training setbacks but Armstrong has shrewdly got enough runs into him to go for this handicap and his recent home form suggests it is worth taking a chance with him as he is on the upgrade . |
| 3 | There 's no way you could have kept him hidden for this long , and Moshe-Rabaan would have noticed any excess oxygen usage , so he 's a simularity , right ? ’ |
| 4 | When I got home , I kept him in for a while , then , ashtray at the ready , let him loose for another try . |
| 5 | ‘ I 'll tell Mr Wilcox she 's here , ’ said Brian Everthorpe , and Robyn thought she saw him wink for some inscrutable reason . |
| 6 | The court discussed the example of a solicitor 's clerk and said that in such a case it would be improper for him to work for another solicitor in his spare time . |
| 7 | There was never a time in Sir Hector Laing 's life when it ever occurred to him to work for any other company than the family business , originally called McVitie $ Price and now known as United Biscuits . |
| 8 | Another message — ‘ Ease his pain ’ — sends the farmer off to Boston to find a reclusive novelist ( James Earl Jones ) and a third imprecation from the skies — ‘ Go the distance ’ has him looking for another old baseballer ( Burt Lancaster ) who played just once for the New York Giants before becoming a much-loved doctor . |
| 9 | Not content with Mont Blanc , last year found him searching for another challenge . |
| 10 | She could almost see him searching for another string of quips if Jessica would not thaw to the first attempt . |
| 11 | I said that someone in Montefiore 's position should check his facts before sounding off , and advised him to campaign for more resources all round instead of trying to trade one disadvantaged group off against another . |
| 12 | But she would make him pay for this , she vowed to herself silently , even if she killed herself in the process ! |
| 13 | She heard him reach for another sandwich . |
| 14 | Expect him to pay for all our needs , solve all our little problems — ’ |
| 15 | Then he seemed to disappear , I 'm sure I heard about him playing for some other club once , but ca n't remember who . |
| 16 | I suppose I put it to him hoping for some response . |
| 17 | If Vecchi had been to the apartment and got what he wanted before killing Mahoney , there was no need for him to return for another look round . |
| 18 | There was a momentary silence during which she could imagine him rallying for another attack . |