Example sentences of "him for [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1756 he had opened his poem On the Goodness of the Supreme Being with an invocation to Orpheus ( the Gentiles ' David ) which beseeches him for inspiration for his great religious theme : |
| 2 | By Thursday evening , errors and ommissions underwriters are due to remit £116 million to solicitor Richards Butler under the settlement reached last month between underwriter Richard Outhwaite and names suing him for negligence over £260 million of losses . |
| 3 | Challenging the expert by suing him for negligence , where it is the expert , rather than the decision which is being challenged , is dealt with in Chapter 14 . |
| 4 | BANKRUPT former publican Maurice Siddle was contemplating suicide hours before police stopped him for drink driving on Christmas Day , a court heard . |
| 5 | He 's multiple in disability , but we get help in Kilmarnock from Salvation Army , who take him during the day , FAB club where I go with him at night , and the hospital , Curtlingside now , who take him for respite social and everything . |
| 6 | She spread hay over him for warmth , but it seemed as if the fever would shake him to pieces . |
| 7 | Without waiting for direction from his captor he had sat down , his overcoat , muddy and stained , pulled around him for warmth , and his bowler hat , the crease of a dent in its crown , clamped on his head . |
| 8 | But so also must it stand to him for warmth , for … affection . |
| 9 | Together we praise God for abundant past blessings and look to Him for direction and strength in the coming days . |
| 10 | Oliver was led away to be locked up , and a reward was offered to anybody who would take him away and use him for work . |
| 11 | Sooner or later every Stevenson bill came to him for discount ; and every foreign transaction went via him . |
| 12 | Pc Elsegood told Wing he was an off-duty policeman and he was arresting him for assault . |
| 13 | And it was fine when Busacher was paying him attention , rebuking him for talking during someone else 's numbers , railing at him for rudeness , for lack of participation . |
| 14 | He was approached by the gang who first asked him for change . |
| 15 | He said he wanted to be pleased at this news , but had been unable to confirm whether it was true or not , since Susan had not requested assistance in the boy 's upbringing , nor did she intend to call on him for support . |
| 16 | She winced , clutched him for support as she eased her right foot off the ground , and a shabby handbag touched his chest . |
| 17 | What it means in practice is that just as a wife has no entitlement to supplementary benefit ( SB ) in her own right — her husband must claim for her as his ‘ dependant ’ — so a single woman living with a male lover may be denied SB and required to look to him for support . |
| 18 | He helped Ratagan away , the big man leaning on him for support and cursing his lameness . |
| 19 | A mumbled , incoherent sound bubbled and surfaced in her throat , and she clung to him for support , her fingers twisting in the silk of his shirt . |
| 20 | BANKRUPT former publican Maurice Siddle was contemplating suicide before police stopped him for drink-driving on Christmas Day , a court heard . |
| 21 | His background , therefore , and some aspects of his personality , seemed to fit him for government . |
| 22 | When you ask him for leave to serve him on this mission he will welcome it as the solution to his anxieties , for even if you are only gone from Kinsai for a time , it will seem to him that you do not mean to impose upon his favour . ’ |
| 23 | Those who assumed that the cottage was owned by him , not her , saw her as the unmarried sister , dependent on him for houseroom , companionship , a purpose in life . |
| 24 | They 'll grab him for concealment of a felony or something . ’ |
| 25 | The organist and I finished more or less together and I turned to him for reassurance as I announced my next song : ‘ And now , ‘ ’ Summer Time' ’ . ' |
| 26 | He did not qualify him for income support , he supported him on to the back of his ass , he took him to the inn . |
| 27 | There were two of Hugh 's sergeants waiting impassively along the path , with a litter on which to lay him for passage to castle or abbey , according as Hugh should direct . |
| 28 | He seized the telephone , and , ruthlessly disrupting Sir Gerhard 's morning , imposed a guest on him for lunch . |
| 29 | Stephen was talking to a tall , elegantly dressed woman , who looked younger than she actually was , and her much older husband when she joined him for lunch in the beach bar . |
| 30 | Clifford replied that he would be delighted , he was a great admirer of hers , and would she join him for lunch when she came . |