Example sentences of "[to-vb] it for he " in BNC.

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1 He 'd have got someone else to write it for him .
2 The ordinary Egyptian could not write and if he wished to send a letter he would have to get a scribe to write it for him .
3 Dingiri Banda Wijetunga , who has been appointed acting president and will probably get the job permanently because the UNP has enough votes in parliament to secure it for him , is an unassuming 71-year-old compromise candidate .
4 Mr Hellyer asked me to hide it for him .
5 This stronger sense of learning also carries with it the idea that ultimately the student is able to evaluate it for him or herself , and form a personal view about its validity ( by reading the relevant articles , by listening to the different views of the authorities on the topic , and perhaps by assisting in a clinical trial ) .
6 His tousled hair gave him an appealingly boyish appearance , and Robbie found herself aching to smooth it for him , to run her fingers over the dark stubble on his cheeks .
7 Sotheby 's was approached towards the end of 1988 , and , according to Llewellyn , ‘ We told the seller that we certainly would not be prepared to sell it for him unless it was clear that there were no existing legal claims to be made by any third parties against the picture .
8 We want to do it for him . ’
9 Miriam had offered to do it for him , and so had Eliza and Margaret , and he could , of course , easily have given it to the dhobi in spite of his inflated prices .
10 Because there was no Anthea to do it for him now .
11 He wanted her to do it for him , but she was busy across the hall .
12 He is , if he can get you to do it for him , then it 's done .
13 Could he expect Nebamun to do it for him ?
14 In Darcy 's Utopia each man will attempt to read the mind of God and not rely on others to do it for him .
15 So we agreed to do it for him .
16 Don t ask me to justify it for him , because I ca n't , but that 's what he believes .
17 And he who allowed his mind to wander found that the Castle was only too happy to guide it for him , and to draw a little of the sensations and memories of that mind into itself , as if it too mulled over those things that stirred the black hearts within its halls …
18 He , they left the er they 'd gone said leave it in the conservatory , then he went out and and and and er shut his conservatory so they could n't leave it so they asked me to keep it for him .
19 He held a common purse with his disciples , and he allowed Judas , who was to betray him , to hold it for him .
20 I do n't know but he would n't , he would n't have it cooked aboard there , my mother used to cook it for him and I 'd stagger down in an ordinary shopping basket , in two basins there 'd be vegetables in one and his pudding and gravy in the other and I used to take that down for him and he used to come ashore and he used to then go and have it .
21 Oscar took his jacket off and I offered to carry it for him .
22 Once a Renaissance palace , after 1709 it became the property of Count Vrtba who commissioned Kaňka to rebuild it for him .
23 We were playing in France , in a place called Cognac and this kid came up to me , gave me a guitar and said he would really like me to test it for him .
24 I think that the most likely of the four possibilities was that Stalin planned the murder with Nikolaev to commit it for him .
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