Example sentences of "him for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er so him for Deane and |
| 2 | Thinking that maybe this man was the right man , that maybe it was him I should ask him for directions , him who would take me home or wherever it was I was trying to get to . |
| 3 | In 1756 he had opened his poem On the Goodness of the Supreme Being with an invocation to Orpheus ( the Gentiles ' David ) which beseeches him for inspiration for his great religious theme : |
| 4 | By Thursday evening , errors and ommissions underwriters are due to remit £116 million to solicitor Richards Butler under the settlement reached last month between underwriter Richard Outhwaite and names suing him for negligence over £260 million of losses . |
| 5 | Challenging the expert by suing him for negligence , where it is the expert , rather than the decision which is being challenged , is dealt with in Chapter 14 . |
| 6 | BANKRUPT former publican Maurice Siddle was contemplating suicide hours before police stopped him for drink driving on Christmas Day , a court heard . |
| 7 | He 's multiple in disability , but we get help in Kilmarnock from Salvation Army , who take him during the day , FAB club where I go with him at night , and the hospital , Curtlingside now , who take him for respite social and everything . |
| 8 | When I had left him for Bath , he had said , sadly , seeing me off at Salamanca station : ‘ I should have come with you when your father died . |
| 9 | Eleanor used to say that she inherited her father 's nose and she would one day sue him for damages . |
| 10 | But if the valuer is negligent and you buy the property relying on his report , you may still be able to sue him for damages . |
| 11 | If he unjustifiably rejects them , the seller may sue him for damages for non-acceptance or , possibly , will have an action for the price ( see paragraph 13–05 and Chapter 12 ) . |
| 12 | ‘ ( 1 ) Where the buyer wrongfully neglects or refuses to accept and pay for the goods , the seller may maintain an action against him for damages for non-acceptance. ( 2 ) The measure of damages is the estimated loss directly and naturally resulting , in the ordinary course of events , from the buyer 's breach of contract . |
| 13 | She spread hay over him for warmth , but it seemed as if the fever would shake him to pieces . |
| 14 | Without waiting for direction from his captor he had sat down , his overcoat , muddy and stained , pulled around him for warmth , and his bowler hat , the crease of a dent in its crown , clamped on his head . |
| 15 | But so also must it stand to him for warmth , for … affection . |
| 16 | Together we praise God for abundant past blessings and look to Him for direction and strength in the coming days . |
| 17 | I got it from him for $125 , and it 's been my mainstay flatpicking electric guitar ever since . |
| 18 | Oliver was led away to be locked up , and a reward was offered to anybody who would take him away and use him for work . |
| 19 | Sooner or later every Stevenson bill came to him for discount ; and every foreign transaction went via him . |
| 20 | Pc Elsegood told Wing he was an off-duty policeman and he was arresting him for assault . |
| 21 | And it was fine when Busacher was paying him attention , rebuking him for talking during someone else 's numbers , railing at him for rudeness , for lack of participation . |
| 22 | He was approached by the gang who first asked him for change . |
| 23 | He said he wanted to be pleased at this news , but had been unable to confirm whether it was true or not , since Susan had not requested assistance in the boy 's upbringing , nor did she intend to call on him for support . |
| 24 | She winced , clutched him for support as she eased her right foot off the ground , and a shabby handbag touched his chest . |
| 25 | What it means in practice is that just as a wife has no entitlement to supplementary benefit ( SB ) in her own right — her husband must claim for her as his ‘ dependant ’ — so a single woman living with a male lover may be denied SB and required to look to him for support . |
| 26 | He helped Ratagan away , the big man leaning on him for support and cursing his lameness . |
| 27 | A mumbled , incoherent sound bubbled and surfaced in her throat , and she clung to him for support , her fingers twisting in the silk of his shirt . |
| 28 | I got it from a guy called Reuben , he was living in Wales and my sister Louise bought me a Joe Johnson with Rip trucks from him for £60 . |
| 29 | BANKRUPT former publican Maurice Siddle was contemplating suicide before police stopped him for drink-driving on Christmas Day , a court heard . |
| 30 | The girl who had interviewed him for Leaders of Mankind . |