Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] for him [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | After the winner I rode for him at York . ’ |
| 3 | Seve finished second to Johnny Miller and after that I caddied for him until the end of 1979 . |
| 4 | I prayed for him to be filled with the Spirit . |
| 5 | And I worked for him for five pound a day because we needed the money . |
| 6 | I called for him at Faber 's — ; which meant waiting downstairs either du côté de chez Swan or in the small waiting-room crowded with Faber books ready for dispatch — ; and we caught a train to Merstham from Victoria . |
| 7 | I sent for him to his private address as soon as I got the news but he has to get up from Winchester . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ I fell for him at once and he seemed attracted to me , but that was all there was to it for a long time . |
| 9 | Here 's what I wrote in the obituary I did for him in The Guardian : |
| 10 | Now I supported Prescott , I must say I voted for him for the er for deputy leader , right , but I think he 's wrong , right , on this particular issue , this compromise that he 's floating and I think it should be dropped . |
| 11 | I waited for him for an hour , outside his half-built apartment building . |
| 12 | I waited for him in our little house by the Smithy but he never came . |
| 13 | He and the princess still talk about the spaghetti suppers she cooked for him at her flat in Earl 's Court . |
| 14 | The conclusive Senate vote was scheduled for Oct. 8 , but had to be delayed for seven days following revelation of new evidence from Anita Hill , 35 , a black University of Oklahoma teacher of law , who alleged that Thomas had subjected her to sexual harassment with explicit , pornographic suggestions when she worked for him at the Department of Education and the EEOC in the early 1980s . |
| 15 | ‘ I know very little about her , although she worked for him in the war too . |
| 16 | You looked for him in the Green Room , but found only his jacket . |
| 17 | She reached for him with one blind hand . |
| 18 | She looked for him in the oven , the fridge , the wicker basket that held wastepaper beside her desk . |
| 19 | When he was near enough she went for him with clawed hands . |
| 20 | Determined not to let him keep the advantage , she bundled the unwanted attraction she felt for him into a cupboard and locked the door on it , before retorting sweetly , ‘ Well , as your invitation was so pressing , I thought I might as well take full advantage of it . ’ |
| 21 | She waited for him to be the first to speak , determined to take her lead from him . |
| 22 | ‘ Ah , David , ’ said Julia , sighing as she waited for him on the pavement . |
| 23 | She longed for him to be with her again . |
| 24 | She longed for him to be in Coronation Street , and even wrote to Granada TV , trying to get him a role in it . |
| 25 | He chattered at her , sleepy and indignant as she dived for him among the dirty linen , the old letters , a moth-eaten scarf . |
| 26 | We prayed for him in June . |
| 27 | We called for him in a taxi at Faber 's , Margaret waiting inside the vehicle . |
| 28 | He held his hands up and admitted an error and we felt for him on the night . |
| 29 | A week later the labour master was convicted ; he was fined ten shillings and costs , although the solicitor who was defending him asked for him to be sentenced to a term of imprisonment ( in which case , an appeal could have been lodged ) . |
| 30 | After the overthrow of Avitus in 456 Majorian had to use force to bring the Visigoths into line , but thereafter they fought for him against the Sueves in Spain . |