Example sentences of "him for the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | I do n't want him to say well she did n't come round , she did n't ask me for the money , I mean I have n't ask him for the money and , he 'd like to on a Friday , when one come up , when the next one comes you can you ? |
| 32 | I said cos I shall phone the bank first thing Monday and I shall say right , he 's took the car so you can run to him for the money cos you 'll be getting none out of me . |
| 33 | Having delivered Eliot to those who were looking after him for the night , we walked back to our colleges discussing the evening , with the ardour of youth which included that most interesting of contests , the comparison of recollections . |
| 34 | She had dinner with Ben and Maggie Bradshaw , and Oliver and Bron Henderson had a party which she attended , although she ended up bumping into Jack as she might have known she would , and going home with him for the night . |
| 35 | When Midland Amalgamated headhunted him for the MD 's job at Pringle 's they offered him a Rover 3500 Vanden Plas , but Vic stuck out for the Jaguar , a car normally reserved for divisional chairmen , and to his great satisfaction he had got one , even though it was n't quite new . |
| 36 | In fact , Dustin was not unknown to Nichols , who had seen him in Journey of the Fifth Horse and had auditioned him for the Broadway musical The Apple Tree . |
| 37 | However , normally one contact man from each of the units is transferred to the staff of the project manager and is responsible to him for the work that is done in his unit . |
| 38 | We decided to hire him for the day , and negotiated a price . |
| 39 | Maggie added : ‘ Keith sees Rose whenever he wants , either by popping in here or she goes over to him for the day . ’ |
| 40 | They were concerned when his mother did not arrive to deliver him for the day yesterday . |
| 41 | They were concerned when his mother did not arrive to deliver him for the day yesterday . |
| 42 | The producer Jerome Hellman had seen Dustin in Eh ? and had thought of him for the part way back then . |
| 43 | If he has become a hero to the Muslim masses outside , and probably to a lot of Third World non-Muslims , it is not on his merits , but because the United States , with gratuitous and superfluous aid from Britain , has cast him for the part . |
| 44 | 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 . |
| 45 | You ought to shop him for the income tax then |
| 46 | ‘ He blames him for the press not being here , ’ Celia said . |
| 47 | When that news hits him , the narrator seems to crumble , even though a premonitory dream the night before has readied him for the shock . |
| 48 | Elton does n't deserve to be called the worst , he 's very stylish and I dress him for the country . |
| 49 | I believe she has even phoned an old school friend of mine whom she avowedly dislikes and asked him for the manuscript of a symphony we once composed together . |
| 50 | Coming to the end of his account , he remembered the fate of the mason-overseer , Khaemhet , held responsible for the security of the prisoners deputed to him for the journey from the granite quarries to the Southern Capital . |
| 51 | I can say to my honourable friend , the member for Rydale who takes such a close interest and is so well informed er on these matters , er I 'm very grateful to him for the welcome he 's given for the orders here , he 's absolutely right to say that we have gone beyond er what restrictive called for by Bingham , we have extended it to other sectors in the financial we welcomed the honourable gentleman from Edinburgh Central that these er orders are in some way timid , they are what was called for by the treasury select committee , they are what was proposed er by Bingham and we have er introduced them er here tonight . |
| 52 | But even I could n't blame him for the phone ringing just as I was at the front door . |
| 53 | And we should have sympathy with him for the sight of a strange dog — whether on a lead or not — can be enough to make sheep run and if pregnant they can miscarry . |
| 54 | He took it away with him for the weekend , to his home in Oxfordshire . |
| 55 | Well we had him for the weekend and er looking back on the weekend we were reasonably impressed with the man and his wife . |
| 56 | 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 . |
| 57 | Andrew 's mother Christine nominated him for the award . |
| 58 | And upon the way they round a leper , struggling in a quagmire , who cried out to them with a loud voice to help him for the love of God ; and when Rodrigo heard this , he alighted from his beast and helped him , and placed him upon the beast before him , and carried him with him in this manner to the inn where he took up his lodging that night . |
| 59 | Sometimes he would be able to hire a premium artist , one who paid him for the privilege of playing . |
| 60 | Nothing in his IBM Corp background could have prepared him for the kind of speech he gave — in fact had to give , if Taligent is to be seen as the answer to the world 's ills . |