Example sentences of "for him [conj] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Remember that it is better to kill the reader with kindness by selecting information for him than to batter him to death in a flurry of factual blows ! |
| 2 | And did he have any men working for him or did he work on his own ? |
| 3 | I stood up for him and said it was rubbish , and told all the black players to quit training . |
| 4 | spending an , an evening waiting for him and seeing him |
| 5 | Their parting of the ways was a costly exercise for him and left him £20 million poorer after a pali-mony settlement . |
| 6 | On another occasion his reference to the duty of the Old Testament prophets to denounce God 's judgements to the King and Court was reported to James II , who sent for him and reproached him for the controversial bitterness with which he had spoken . |
| 7 | ‘ The whole of this club is rooting for him and wishing him well , ’ added the comparatively young Liverpool chairman , who admitted to finding his first year in office ‘ a difficult baptism ’ . |
| 8 | His abilities impressed A. C. Headlam [ q.v. ] , principal of King 's College , London , who secured lectureships in ecclesiastical history ( 1905–11 ) and patristics ( 1911–18 ) for him and made him sub-editor ( 1903–18 ) and later joint editor ( 1921–7 ) of the Church Quarterly Review . |
| 9 | Alcuin wrote to Aethelred , probably in 791 , expressing affection for him and urging him to display kindness not cruelty and reason not anger in his deeds , and to speak truth not falsehood , but the sack of Lindisfarne by Vikings in June 793 ( ASC D , s.a. 793 ) provided a shocked and outraged Alcuin with an opportunity to declaim against the evils of Northumbrian society , as he saw them , and the shortcomings of the king himself in a letter to Aethelred and his nobles . |
| 10 | Iorwerth reached out of the leaves for him and choked him mute , but the damage was done . |
| 11 | To care for him and protect him . |
| 12 | The man rewrote a radio play for him and got him early professional experience . |
| 13 | A boy works for him and brings him all the food and things he needs . |
| 14 | I felt sorry for him and employed him immediately , to be the ship 's cook . |
| 15 | I could make a playpen for him and buy him one of those big wooden Arks with all the animals in and I could get one of those bags you carry babies around in like the Indians have had for centuries . |
| 16 | ‘ They went out looking for him and reported him missing to the police at 3.30am . |
| 17 | In optimistic moments , he liked to think the forest itself was concerned for him and keeping him alive . |
| 18 | He never forgot how it had once been , never seemed to regard her in any other way but as the person who had cared for him and loved him without reservation . |
| 19 | Lady Rous , of Rous Lench , Worcestershire , a godly woman and a supporter of Baxter , hearing of his illness , sent for him and nursed him back to health . |
| 20 | He hat eventually decided to ask Security 's registry and its computers for a trace muddling the trail by getting a colleague to send the request for him and burying it in a list of acronyms as if they had been collected over a period of time . |
| 21 | Producer Ken Hyman went in search for him and found him in a bar in Belgravia ‘ as drunk as a skunk ’ . |
| 22 | ‘ I 'd better break the engagement now , ’ I said , thinking my mother very foolish for not realising that what appealed to Syl was my very paleness , my silence , my hostility , which he mostly construed as shyness , until I was unpleasant , and when I was unpleasant he took it as evidence of some depth in my feeling for him and found it sexually alluring . |