Example sentences of "to him for the " in BNC.

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1 This became a strong reason to him for the practice of private confession .
2 He will have debtors : his bank is a debtor to him for the amount standing to his credit ; his investments of money are claims to receive payment from the State or from corporations or individuals .
3 I went to him for the political because I was a red hot loyalist at that time .
4 All that mattered to him for the moment was the feel of the bedsheets angling Golden Girl northward .
5 In that event his creditor was entitled to ask the court to register the borrower 's indebtedness to him for the sum claimed as a fact without further to-do , and without the borrower 's case being heard .
6 In the meantime , thanks to him for the loan of this lovable and interesting guitar .
7 She made up to him for the son he had never had , the wife who had left him , even the dull Selene , who would never come to anything .
8 the resources which he could expect to be available to him for the purpose of meeting the liability should it arise ; and
9 Maggie added : ‘ Keith sees Rose whenever he wants , either by popping in here or she goes over to him for the day . ’
10 However , normally one contact man from each of the units is transferred to the staff of the project manager and is responsible to him for the work that is done in his unit .
11 A person whom there are grounds to suspect of an offence must be cautioned before any questions about it ( or further questions if it is his answers to previous questions that provide grounds for suspicion ) are put to him for the purpose of obtaining evidence which may be given to a court in a prosecution .
12 ‘ A person whom there are grounds to suspect of an offence must be cautioned before any questions about it ( or further questions if it is his answers to previous questions that provide grounds for suspicion ) are put to him for the purpose of obtaining evidence which may be given to a court in a prosecution .
13 Taking the case at its highest against the plaintiffs I assume for the purposes of considering this point that either Mr. Twycross or his secretary took the opportunity of the presence of the son in the office to hand the letters in their envelopes to him for the purpose of delivery to the parents .
14 To lose him would be worse than losing himself : it would be losing the only chance left to him for the life he had always and violently lusted after .
15 For him it held a special appeal ; the one day of the week he could break bread with his family and not have to feel that they were only loaned to him for the while — his son Joshua had no business to go to , his grandson Jacob no college lectures .
16 Perhaps , because I had really addressed myself to him for the first time , he thought we were in accord .
17 He was particularly grateful to him for the ‘ extraordinary kindness ’ he had shown his wife , Bowyer 's niece Blanche Highgate , near whom he was buried in St Dunstan in the West .
18 It occurred to him for the first time that Celia would be a bad enemy , just as she was a good friend .
19 But a wider public , both inside and outside the University , are grateful to him for the windows he has opened up to them , through his recent chairmanship of the Friends of the Welsh National Opera , through his talks and articles , and above all through his learned , wise and witty discourses on Wagner .
20 As she talked Eva revealed it was not just that she was coming back to God , but that she had realised she must give her whole self to him for the ministry .
21 Coming to the end of his account , he remembered the fate of the mason-overseer , Khaemhet , held responsible for the security of the prisoners deputed to him for the journey from the granite quarries to the Southern Capital .
22 There was still the rupee for his food , and another rupee given to him for the train journey back .
23 This concludes Mr Birdwood 's article and again many thanks to him for the talk he gave last March and for permission to reprint same .
24 Is my right hon. Friend aware that I am extremely grateful to him for the wise decision to retain the St.
25 It came home to him for the first time that what had seemed to him a trivial event , a stupid joke , was something genuinely much bigger to Andrus .
26 The theory is that such sub-contracting should not concern the buyer , because the seller still remains liable to him for the discharge of the main contract in accordance with its terms .
27 In relation to clauses which impose a monetary limit on damages recoverable in the event of breach of contract , the court is also to take into account : ( a ) the resources which [ the party seeking to rely on the clause ] could expect to be available to him for the purpose of meeting the liability should it arise ; and ( b ) how far it was open to him to cover himself by insurance .
28 I can say to my honourable friend , the member for Rydale who takes such a close interest and is so well informed er on these matters , er I 'm very grateful to him for the welcome he 's given for the orders here , he 's absolutely right to say that we have gone beyond er what restrictive called for by Bingham , we have extended it to other sectors in the financial we welcomed the honourable gentleman from Edinburgh Central that these er orders are in some way timid , they are what was called for by the treasury select committee , they are what was proposed er by Bingham and we have er introduced them er here tonight .
29 Had n't he understood that she had given herself to him for the only reason that made any sense to her .
30 Oh , poor Travis , Leith thought , her sympathies going out to him for the terrible time he was having .
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