Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] him for [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 've got all his tablets sorted for him for coming home . |
| 2 | Shortly before the announcement of his resignation there were press reports that FBI agents had reviewed Gray 's 1990 financial disclosures and had sought records concerning payments made to him for speaking engagements . |
| 3 | Last November he appealed against the sentence , imposed on him for breaking a ban on keeping livestock . |
| 4 | This was the fate of deaf and dumb adults and children until towards the end of the sixteenth century , when Pedro Ponce de Leon , a Benedictine monk of the monastery of San Salvador near Burgos in Northern Spain , succeeded in teaching language to some deaf and dumb children , who had been entrusted to him for schooling by wealthy families , as deaf and dumb minors were legally incapable of inheriting their parents estates . |
| 5 | Critical also of the World Cup organisation , and referring to the umpiring in West Indies as ‘ disgraceful ’ , this agonising cricketer , who came from nowhere at 18 , spotted by Javed Miandad , seems greatly perturbed still at the £1000 fine extracted from him for swearing within the hearing of umpire Plews after he had banned him for bowling bouncers against Warwickshire . |
| 6 | That is the objection er the whole fundamental objection to what is proposed in the Bill as it is a centralising measure was shown quite clearly er er a a by the desire of the Home Secretary to increase his own power as when he intended to appoint the Chairman absolute impudence in my view er to suggest tha that he he should have had the power to appoint a chairman and although congratulations have now been er er poured upon him for withdrawing to wh what 's a position , I would sooner congratulate your er Your Lordships , er all of whom spoke in such a manner that it would have been impossible for the Home Secretary to have carried the measure through . |
| 7 | On his visit to the château and lunch in the mess there , he singled out Charles with his black buttons and strange headdress and commiserated with him for having to put up with an attachment to what he called ‘ These rather superior beings ’ . |
| 8 | The plaintiff sought to recover dues paid by him for landing stone for which , unknown to him , he was not liable because the stone was covered by an exemption . |