Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] him for " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | I 've been trying to write about him for weeks . ’ |
| 2 | What on earth have I agreed to work for him for ? she asked herself despairingly . |
| 3 | And erm anyway we got more from the unemployment exchange that prepared to work for him for fourteen pound , when we could have a eighteen pound on the dole . |
| 4 | He asked us to call a group together , black and white , to meet with him for two days to seek God 's guidance together . |
| 5 | Laurence Gilliam of the BBC in London arranged and produced these impressive programmes and it was my pleasure and privilege to work with him for the Vancouver region for several years running . |
| 6 | You may like to write to him for more details . |
| 7 | When Hullmandel published his treatise The Art of Drawing on Stone in 1824 , the possibilities of lithography were better advertised ( although Hullmandel was careful not to describe the actual printing process , so that artists would have to come to him for that service ) , and Lear was one of the very first to be attracted to the technique . |
| 8 | I ca n't reproduce the way he talks — you 'll have to listen to him for yourself — but he just sort of zooms off . |
| 9 | Just to talk to him for a few minutes … |
| 10 | ‘ I was assigned to look after him for a while , ’ Harvey answered . |
| 11 | It is unnecessary as regards persons whom the husband has not by his previous conduct induced to look to him for payment ; it is ineffectual as regards those who do not happen to see the advertisement . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Mr. Mendez seemed to stare at him for a While , thinking or just looking . |
| 14 | Claudia said , hardly daring to look at him for fear of betraying how much she loved him . |
| 15 | If so , it was at Combwich ( pronounced ‘ Cummage ’ ) that Coleridge first set foot within that secluded , forgotten territory , bounded by the Quantock Hills and a bleakly impressive coastline , which was to remain with him for the rest of his life . |
| 16 | His first column , under the generic strap-line ‘ Sitting on the Fence ’ , appeared on 30 November 1930 on page 3 — a star position — and under his new by-line , Nathaniel Gubbins , which was to remain with him for life . |
| 17 | It did occur to me that since everyone seemed to be playing a game with rules unknown to me , Robert might not be concerned only that I would be bored by myself , but he might want me to go with him for reasons of his own . |
| 18 | He was the same age as Syl , after all , and Syl wanted me to go with him for reasons of his own . |
| 19 | We always had to chase after him for it and he 'd never give her more than a pound a week . |
| 20 | The current state of Preston 's finances put taxi rides across London among the long list of temptations he would have to put behind him for a while . |
| 21 | She could n't face seeing that realisation in his eyes , for the sake of her own sanity had to get away — had to flee from him for a second time . |
| 22 | It had made the Marchese a small fortune when he sold it to the deputy of the English connoisseur in Naples who was going to ship it away in boxes ; it was being stripped from the walls when the Government heard of it and came and sealed up the villa again , but not before one of the intermediaries had sliced enough off the top of the deal to pay his passage to America , promising to send after him for his family . |
| 23 | I told him I had learnt how to fight against him for a start . |
| 24 | When she looked back at Mick she allowed her gaze to rest on him for some seconds before she answered , ‘ Of course I know who it is . |
| 25 | ‘ No names , no pack drill , but I know somebody who works for her and she was saying that Diana will be jolly pleased to have a lump sum to spend instead of having to go to him for her money . |
| 26 | And , as Appendix III shows , there 's the additional incentive , for many people , in keeping in with Mr Jones in case times get hard and they have to appeal to him for a loan to tide them over . |
| 27 | It is difficult to disagree with him for the conjunction of computers and communications is perhaps the most important aspect of information technology . |
| 28 | The young woman remembers how her mother would leave home at 5am day after day , and wait in the Marmoura forest near where the King used to play golf in an effort to plead with him for her husband 's life . |
| 29 | Later , Baxter 's father and step-mother also came to live with him for a time . |
| 30 | Later , Baxter 's father and step-mother also came to live with him for a time . |