Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] him for [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er that I remember come in laughing saying that he had no kitchen for him for her . |
| 2 | LORD TENTERDEN C.J. : Assuming that the offer to pay the six guineas without costs was evidence of an express promise by the defendant to pay that sum to the plaintiff as a compensation to him for his loss of time , still , if the defendant was not bound by law to pay that sum , the offer to do so not having been accepted will not avail the plaintiff . |
| 3 | Maybe , she thought bitterly , if she had asked a few questions she might have uncovered the truth about him for herself , instead of having the information relayed to her by one of her friends . |
| 4 | The accused maintained that he had gone to her home to ask if she had received a letter of apology from him for his earlier crime . |
| 5 | I pay tribute to him for his support for the Peace Train . |
| 6 | but it 's not television , i i it 's , it 's Doctor Who and , and Prisoner and , you know er very interesting and very easy for enthusiasts to direct a lot of their time and energy to maybe I do n't maybe there was a increased pressure to work and study which was erm self motivated rather than being externally imposed , maybe he maybe there was a fundamental lack of enthusiasm in him for what is described as the hardware of computing , the , the , the , the , the instruments , the machines maybe there was a less than comprehensive understanding of what is known as the firmware , that 's to say I mean operating systems that are built into the thing to make it work , you 've got to understand the firmware because otherwise you do n't understand what the machine will think you mean and what that will do and I would have thought that whereas superficially you can ignore the firmware , it 's all in there , it understands as you , I would have thought , grew into a er a graduate computer scientist you 've got to have some idea about that . |
| 7 | The service was no novelty to him for his father had been a High Anglican vicar in another part of London and Rupert had not lost his boyhood faith until his first year at Oxford — late really , he had thought , for a clergyman 's son . |
| 8 | D' you know , in a way I feel as though I have to take care of him for her . ’ |
| 9 | It would be too much , given his limitations , to talk of Nikita the Great , but there was uncommon ability in him for which the world could eventually breathe more easily . |
| 10 | John Hill had queried Miller 's description and had published his views in Eden , or a Complete Body of Gardening ( 1759 ) and Justice retaliated in his British Gardener 's Calendar ( 1759 ) : ‘ I thought it my indispensable duty to give Mr. Miller his due , both from a love of truth and from a sense of gratitude to him for his public labours , as well as private friendship . ’ |
| 11 | The purpose of praying is not prayer , but to delight in God , and commune with him for his own sake . |
| 12 | Sniffy was reasonably pleased to see them as the Goad men had been about to wreak vengeance on him for his revelations about the prison release dates being changed . |
| 13 | The tenant 's mere act of signing a lease agreement is not a supply by him for which the landlord provided the rent-free period as consideration . |