Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] for he " in BNC.
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| 1 | His mother had been crying as she had rifled the house for money for him , and as she had made sandwiches to put in greaseproof paper because it would be dangerous for him to stop at cafés on his way to the airport . |
| 2 | They rang us to reveal all the good work Lamb does for them — one of many messages of support for him . |
| 3 | I 'm quite sure that it was a sort of catalyst for him , to prove that he could do something like that . ’ |
| 4 | That is an article of faith for him . |
| 5 | ‘ He has been a tower of strength to her and she is full of admiration for him . |
| 6 | GRAEME SOUNESS ( Spurs , Middlesbrough , Liverpool , Sampdoria , Rangers and Scotland — 1970-91 ) : ‘ I 've got a lot of admiration for him because he was a very passionate player and he looked after other players as well . |
| 7 | In the bright mid-morning light he looked , standing there , rather commonplace and even ugly — so thought Alice , who a few moments before had been melting in a familiar ecstasy of admiration for him . |
| 8 | The following year Mazarin commissioned Francesco Buti , the librettist of Rossi 's Orfeo , to recruit Italian singers and write another work , Le nozze di Peleo e di Theti , for which a Roman composer Carlo Caproli supplied the music and in which the dancers included not only Lully but the 15-year-old Louis XIV who was full of admiration for him . |
| 9 | ‘ I have a lot of admiration for him . |
| 10 | There will be no shortage of sympathy for him . |
| 11 | There will be no shortage of sympathy for him . |
| 12 | When she came back from a date with the Prince she would be full of sympathy for him uttering phrases like ‘ they work him too hard ’ or ‘ it 's appalling the way they push him around . ’ |
| 13 | Though she knew he did not deserve it , Charlotte could not suppress a stab of sympathy for him . |
| 14 | ‘ My feeling is one of sympathy for him , ’ said Robson in an interview with Radio Five . |
| 15 | But the end of the 1930s was a time of trial for him . |
| 16 | When Albert missed the child most urgently , the refusal of money for him seemed like a moral tactic to take him away forever . |
| 17 | ‘ Will you come then and get a cup of milk for him ? ’ |
| 18 | And er the woman there she would n't sign the paper because ny husband was a miner for me to get a drop of milk for him . |
| 19 | THE COMMITMENTS is Alan Parker 's new film and represents a change of direction for him which has been phenomenally successful . |
| 20 | The files told him their story — a tale of rare incompetence and of opportunity for him . |
| 21 | I advised Smith very strongly that the best course of action for him was to throw all his weight and support behind the Lancaster House agreement , whatever it turned out to be , which he showed great reluctance to do because in his view Lancaster House was a total capitulation to the black population . |
| 22 | She left a cup of tea for him on his bedside table and went into the kitchen to prepare the evening meal . |
| 23 | It was a great source of pleasure for him , an able and talented keyboard musician , to be a member of the Faculty of Music in Edinburgh . |
| 24 | The Cockney porter who had smuggled in a bottle of booze for him said that one of them liked to satisfy herself with the aid of bottle necks . |
| 25 | When he did , he found that to acknowledge these events in writing became a sort of therapy for him . |
| 26 | He has no hesitation in saying that the most difficult aspects of management for him are those that involve making decisions about people , whether it be a question of promotion , demotion or making somebody redundant . |
| 27 | Here Thomas Carnan obtained some freedom of exercise for him . |
| 28 | I remember a little boy , I 've got on a picture with me he was a very very poor child and he made the best gloves in the class and it was a real sort of accolade for him . |
| 29 | The wife , dependent on her husband 's increasing earnings , is committed to the work of home-making for him and their children . |
| 30 | She had gone along once to pay a casual visit and found one of Nenna 's youngsters , the little one , cooking some kind of mess for him in Dreadnought 's galley . |