Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] for him " in BNC.
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| 1 | I want a divorce , that 's what I want , but he 'll not budge as long as he 's drawing two salaries and has me cooking for him — but I 'll not eat with him , I stick myself in that tiny kitchen in there — can you imagine the life I lead ? |
| 2 | Roberto had written and asked me to carry for him in that year 's Open . |
| 3 | Then he told me to wait for him after I had visited my father , and said that he would try to think of a way to help me without arousing any suspicion . |
| 4 | " Matthew has asked me to work for him again . " |
| 5 | The child can have his football boots because the words ‘ we ca n't afford it ’ will be linked to the long-gone and not-lamented past : the tyrant can not control against the will of the subject because he can not frighten his people with notions of helplessness and poverty : the employer will have to charm and wheedle his workers if he wants them to work for him : he will have to sing and dance to entertain them : enthuse them with pleasure for their daily toil : they will be paid with the world 's respect , and all around them there will be abundance . |
| 6 | And then J. D. O'Connor , who edits the Clarion Cry , had asked me to write for him — almost as a joke at first — about women 's lives . |
| 7 | I was told that the manager had gone to lunch , and when I asked for him to be bleeped I was told again that he had gone to lunch and that he had left his bleep at the switchboard — all in a tone that suggested that this was standard behaviour . |
| 8 | That 's why I asked for him rather than his partner who is , so I 've been told , both charming and susceptible . ’ |
| 9 | I mean for him to ring you back and speak to you , i i he , he 's been concerned about it as well . |
| 10 | This is clear from words which Mercadier himself dictated in 1196 : " I fought for him strenuously and loyally . |
| 11 | " Alas , it 's not physical danger that I fear for him or rather , I fear that too , but since we are all in God 's hands I trust that He will not forsake us no , it 's another danger that I fear for him . |
| 12 | " Alas , it 's not physical danger that I fear for him or rather , I fear that too , but since we are all in God 's hands I trust that He will not forsake us no , it 's another danger that I fear for him . |
| 13 | After the winner I rode for him at York . ’ |
| 14 | It would be most upsetting if Captain Auden were to hear I had shown you the implant I designed for him . ’ |
| 15 | But when I send for him , by the evening , when his day 's work is over , he 'll come . |
| 16 | But the day I send for him , he will come . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ So I cook for him , it 's a cross and a penance . |
| 18 | Now , she thought , now Edouard will have what I know he wants so desperately , what I want for him . |
| 19 | I worry for him . |
| 20 | I , I looking for him cos they er , I mean he is a old farmer . |
| 21 | ‘ Never will I send for him , never ! ’ she promised herself . |
| 22 | He lingers over that and I wait for him to ask why I was visiting a Communist state . |
| 23 | But I wait for him to start it — and then I just finish it off . ’ |
| 24 | I wait for him to come back up but he does n't . |
| 25 | And he demands that I create for him a mate , a gigantic Eve to give him solace . ’ |
| 26 | And now , she thought ( because I have in spite of all , a heart ) : I weep for him , because of him , a whole waterfall of diamonds … |
| 27 | As Caesar lov 'd me , I weep for him ; as he was fortunate , I rejoice at it ; as he was valiant , I honour him ; but — as he was ambitious , I slew him . |
| 28 | Seve finished second to Johnny Miller and after that I caddied for him until the end of 1979 . |
| 29 | ‘ You must get your loyalties right and if Nigel wants me I ride for him . |
| 30 | I prayed for him to be filled with the Spirit . |