Example sentences of "[v-ing] for him " in BNC.
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| 1 | Reluctantly , I give Sandy Lyle little chance , not helped by his wife ( a non-golfer ) caddying for him , while David Feherty , Steve Richardson , Colin Montgomerie and Gary Wolstenholme will be hoping just to do their best ; the top 24 , giving an automatic place next year , is probably their aim . |
| 2 | Caddying for him was his boss , David Powell , a scratch player himself and former Gloucestershire captain . |
| 3 | I 'd been caddying for Ralph Moffatt on the pro circuit and got him through the pre-qualifier at Fairhaven , so I told him I 'd be caddying for him in the Open as I 'd heard nothing from Jack . |
| 4 | He had Jimmy Dickinson caddying for him , but Jimmy caddies for Jack Nicklaus in the Ryder Cup . |
| 5 | I approached him and asked him about caddying for him , and I was very pleased when he said yes . |
| 6 | In 1681 King Charles II visited Winchester to inspect progress on a palace which Wren was building for him there as a base for hawking and hunting in the Hampshire hills and forests . |
| 7 | The club are thinking about him and rooting for him . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ The whole of this club is rooting for him and wishing him well , ’ added the comparatively young Liverpool chairman , who admitted to finding his first year in office ‘ a difficult baptism ’ . |
| 9 | Christien knows Tony and Tracey and mum Sheila will be rooting for him on Monday night when the series starts . |
| 10 | What is more , he had now become very conscious of his audience and of how they were all silently rooting for him . |
| 11 | Certainly they were all rooting for him and just as certainly Harvey responded , and he did things that night that would have attracted a talent scout from the Bolshoi . |
| 12 | And what we 're trying to do is to give him this family feeling that everybody behind here , the whole team , every single worker is rooting for him and making sure that he has the best . |
| 13 | I think wants me to paint the levelling for him . |
| 14 | The Library 's trawling for him . ’ |
| 15 | The media , in the meantime , were clamouring for him to marry . |
| 16 | They will be clamouring for him now , my dear , simply clamouring . ’ |
| 17 | I want a divorce , that 's what I want , but he 'll not budge as long as he 's drawing two salaries and has me cooking for him — but I 'll not eat with him , I stick myself in that tiny kitchen in there — can you imagine the life I lead ? |
| 18 | Robyn glanced down at the chopping-board ; cooking for him would be bad enough , but others ? |
| 19 | She keeps apologizing for him . |
| 20 | I 've been praying for him and this looks like the best possible outcome . |
| 21 | Similarly Henry V was seen as the Judas Maccabeus of his day who , faced by great odds at Agincourt , worried little about his lack of forces but trusted in the rightness of his cause , the piety of his people at home praying for him and for his army , and in divine strength . |
| 22 | All night he had laboured in prayer and watching , then rising and sitting in his chair , as it were made new for the occasion , which had been placed before the chimney in his parlour , and in the midst of his chaplains , servants and officers who were praying for him , he expired as if sleeping , and without a groan yielded up his spirit most purely to his Creator . " |
| 23 | But she tried , haltingly , searching for the words , praying for him to understand a little of what was in her heart . |
| 24 | ‘ Did you hear me ? she urged , dying for him to get cross . |
| 25 | Liam complained that he had plenty to do with the new shop opening for him to be running around after doctors — ‘ just because a couple of kiddies are sick ’ . |
| 26 | ’ Kiefer has that three-degrees off morphine thing happening for him … a bizarre energy ’ or Promised Land director Michael Hoffman , who said : ’ Kiefer would n't want to be normal . |
| 27 | Perry 's letter was read by Roger Taylor , three-times British Wimbledon semi-finalist , who was deputising for him . |
| 28 | Well they , I had to go to Road police station , London , it was quite good , the detective took , took me around that little area and er then when I got ready to collect to take him to Liverpool Street Station , I saw him for the first time , man about sixty one and he 'd got two suitcases , one lighter than the other , and while I was signing for him and his property I said to him , you take that light one and I 'll take the bigger one with the view to getting on the bus to get to Liverpool Street st but the inspector there was very good , he said I 'm not going to oh and I said to you take the light case I 'll take the high one , he said I ca n't carry anything , I got a rupture . |
| 29 | The slide of bodies bathed in perspiration ceased as Luke shuddered and stilled momentarily before moving to kneel over her , surveying her with glittering eyes , his shadow cast over her , and Maria fell back against the pillows with a hoarse sob , wordlessly pleading with him to end the torment , aching for him , needing to feel him inside her , hating him for prolonging her agony like this and resenting the control that enabled him to do it . |
| 30 | So often since then she had lain awake in the darkness aching for him … but that had been before the discovery of Sybil 's body and the awful , emotional turmoil that had followed . |