Example sentences of "[pron] for he [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was nothing for him to say . |
| 2 | He pulled the door to behind him — he was reasonably certain there was nothing for him to see in the engine-room anyway — and stooped to examine the three dead men . |
| 3 | But there was nothing for him to see . |
| 4 | It was nothing for him to take the ball off them and stick the knife in it to burst it . ’ |
| 5 | He longed to do some real work that would give him some satisfaction at the end of a day , yet there seemed to be nothing for him to do . |
| 6 | There appeared to be nothing for him to do but make his way back to the Inn on the Point , collect his own belongings and return to London . |
| 7 | There was nothing for him to do now until Kynaston had finished . |
| 8 | There was nothing for him to do except settle down to some work . |
| 9 | There 's nothing for him to do , is there ? |
| 10 | There was nothing for him to do but play cards , which was allowed . |
| 11 | She 'd reassure him over and over that she was fine , she was safe , there was nothing for him to worry about , and Ashdown would then ring Joe and pass along anything new or helpful that he 'd been able to pick out of the conversation . |
| 12 | His second came at the ticket booth , where there was no-one for him to show his first-class ticket to . |
| 13 | I washed them trainers our Johnny given me and I cleaned them for him to try and save and then them black shoes for school to save his boots for the |
| 14 | In his opinion , the theory of civics , in whatever form it was taught , was useless without a real social context , which for him meant the practice of ‘ work ’ , in all its senses . |
| 15 | It was in ‘ the epic vein' which for him meant a long rhyming poem about knights in armour . |
| 16 | ‘ Very little , I imagine , ’ said the Captain irritably , ‘ and he would n't have got it , either , but he was going to lose his grazing rights , which for him meant he was going to lose everything . ’ |
| 17 | Not all writers , however , thought in national terms ; the distinguished canon lawyer William Lyndwood was not prepared to identify patria with regnum , and instead thought of it as equivalent to regio , which for him meant the province of Canterbury ( 27 , p.172a ) . |
| 18 | There was always plenty for him to do . |
| 19 | Auxilliary nurses do not go on any courses so there were none for him to take . |
| 20 | So he gets twenty five pound for the for the night , and he has n't got to start until about nine o'clock anyway so erm that 's , that 's something for him to do , is n't it ? |
| 21 | If , then , someone had to appear old to him for him to acquire the concept ‘ old ’ , he would never get started . |
| 22 | In fact the computer digests it for him to give him and overview of how effective his operation is , when he should be buying extra copies , when perhaps he should be thinking of not buying quite so much , or being a little more selective . |
| 23 | Oh just play it for him look . |
| 24 | He fetches half a tree in his dripping mouth and insists on me throwing it for him to fetch . |
| 25 | I mean he for him to see it walking along the road if there was anything . |
| 26 | What raises Eliot above the entrapping circles of city and savage is what for him has continually to raise words towards the Word , something made available in partial revelations . |
| 27 | I have n't got anything for him have I ? |
| 28 | ‘ There wo n't be anything for him to eat if she does n't write . ’ |