Example sentences of "was [adv] [vb pp] for him " in BNC.
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| 1 | It made something sting behind her eyes as she thought now that it was all finished for him . |
| 2 | It comes in from the number nine , gets the goal but it was brilliantly created for him there by and it 's a quick response by right on the fifty minute mark , we 've had an hour of the match and it 's now three one . |
| 3 | He was defeated only four times in a long career , ‘ retiring with a fortune of £70,000 , almost all of which was promptly lost for him ’ . |
| 4 | I was therefore prepared to take the responsibility of advising him to change his mind , and I was also prepared for him to tell his friends that I had done so . |
| 5 | ‘ Some , ’ Grant replied round the glass tube in his mouth , just in case the question was really intended for him . |
| 6 | This he etched in outline on a copper plate , and a print was immediately prepared for him on a piece of drawing-paper . |
| 7 | On 12 October 1738 , as ‘ B.B. Philo Physiologiae ’ , he issued proposals in the Daily Advertiser for subscribers to this work which was then printed for him by Godfrey Smith in ten volumes , plus plates , between 1738 and 1741 , under the title of Memoirs of the Royal Society ; being a new Abridgment of the Philosophical Transactions for the years 1665 to 1735 . |
| 8 | But if Martha herself had sent her , what hope was there left for him . |
| 9 | In 1912 the same principle was reaffirmed to W. A. S. Hewins by Bonar Law , in a letter that was actually drafted for him by Steel-Maitland : " If a constituency definitely refuses to accept a candidate , even if the Central Office wish them to do so , they can not be forced to take action against their will . |
| 10 | A very new officer ( judged by the colour of his drill shorts , which had a yellow rookie look about them as if they had come straight out of Millett 's window ) appeared in his drill which was never meant for him ; it was meant for a much larger person . |