Example sentences of "[be] a [noun sg] for him [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Colin resents the notion that he does n't carry a big punch and this could be a chance for him to try to prove otherwise as Palacio admits to having been knocked out four times in his 58-fight career . |
| 2 | She had to be a prop for him to lean on when his own despair grew too great . |
| 3 | She probably did tell him to go away and stop following her around , but that would n't be a reason for him screaming he 'd kill her . ’ |
| 4 | If we must have ‘ classics ’ let us accept James Steel Smith 's definition of a book that ‘ provides some special imaginative experience which the child is not likely to get from other sources — or at least in the same degree of intensity — and which ‘ it would be a shame for him to miss ’ ( 1967 , p. 121 ) . |
| 5 | When a female appears , her swollen abdomen holding eggs is a stimulus for him to engage in a zig zag dance . |
| 6 | Such poems ‘ need not be stimulated by real-life events ’ such as the plight of the Marseilles dock-workers , which has effaced the sight — darkly limned in Jaromil 's juvenilia — of Magda in her bath ; and if the poet who displays his ignorant , indifferent self-portrait is hoping for applause , there is a chance for him to do well in the new world of revolution , which rings with applause , and with blame . |
| 7 | It is a chance for him to prove he can make it in the Football League . ’ |
| 8 | The relevant sections state that ‘ it is a defence for him to prove that the failure arose from circumstances beyond his control . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ If a person presenting or directing the performance is not shown to have intended to stir up racial hatred , it is a defence for him to prove — ( a ) that he did not know and had no reason to suspect that the performance would involve the use of the offending words or behaviour , or ( b ) that he did not know and had no reason to suspect that the offending words or behaviour were threatening , abusive or insulting , or ( c ) that he did not know and had no reason to suspect that the circumstances in which the performance would be given would be such that racial hatred would be likely to be stirred up . ’ |
| 10 | His name was a plea for him to take control and end this before it began . |
| 11 | It was a change for him to evince curiosity . |
| 12 | Also , unlike others who had been brought up in more cultured surroundings , it was a rarity for him to go to the theatre and even more of a rarity to go to other forms of public entertainments , including the cinema . |
| 13 | When Lord Henry returned home that night , there was a letter for him lying on the table . |