Example sentences of "it [verb] for him " in BNC.
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| 1 | They say never ask for whom the bell tolls , but when Steven Ivin heard one ring out after the second world war he knew it tolled for him . |
| 2 | As the eldest son , Father shortened his education — or had it shortened for him — and went to help in the family business . |
| 3 | How had it felt for him ? |
| 4 | Gazza is slowly but surely learning the Italian language , making it work for him . |
| 5 | ‘ That done , ’ he went on determinedly , ‘ and for as long as it takes for him to get you out of his system , you will be my girlfriend . |
| 6 | What new trap could it lay for him ? |
| 7 | But it worked for him , and looked cool into the bargain , and that 's Fender 's problem , really . |
| 8 | And it worked for him and we set type by hand and pulled proofs . |
| 9 | We can at least begin to understand the human life and affection and anger and doubts and suffering and death of God in a way that we could not possibly begin to understand what it means for him to be God . |
| 10 | At Ferrari it waited for him to put a foot wrong and there was blood all over the walls . ’ |
| 11 | It waited for him in Zürich , Poshekhonov would say , the pay-off . |
| 12 | He sat back , studying the hologram a moment , conscious of how it waited for him , displaying that unquestioning patience that distinguished the mechanical from the human . |
| 13 | Do n't go into all the technical details without er , six months er , payable until you return to work , reach sixty or die , payable for by reduced allocation to the units according the age and sex , etcetera , etcetera , and tell him what it does for him . |
| 14 | On the contrary , it remains for him to decide . |
| 15 | It 's not cheap , and it 's not easy — but it works for him . |
| 16 | It works for him and it 's obviously brought him dividends because he 's a really good player . |
| 17 | The Prime Minister said that it remained for him to wish his colleagues all good fortune in the difficult but hopeful situation which they had to face . |
| 18 | It held for him some of the same hubristic impermanence and , even as he gazed , he half expected it to bend and sway . |