Example sentences of "for him [prep] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We have three reports , beginning with the young boy whose mother fought for him to flown to Britain . |
| 2 | They 've got all his tablets sorted for him for coming home . |
| 3 | The extradition was still stalled ; there was another fraud investigation involving a British defence equipment company that had been ripped off in an American takeover deal ; there was a coke run in London that the Bureau in New York were interested in ; there was a guy who was under surveillance and who was going to have a Grand Jury warrant out for him for chopping his girlfriend 's mother into small pieces ; there were investigations that were vaguer , and things that were closer . |
| 4 | His desperate girl , ox-eyed , perhaps twelve years old or perhaps thirty-five , waited outside the Customs Hall for him without leaving even to sleep , watching through the glass and crying softly and putting the damp balls of face tissue into a big plastic handbag that looked ugly and moving against her sari . |
| 5 | Perhaps these are symptoms of the greater concreteness of Lawrence 's description : he makes his nouns , adjectives , verbs and adverbs work for him without weaving them into an abstract web of relationships . |
| 6 | ‘ Because , my dear , ’ Marc gave a perceptible sigh , ‘ as I 've already suggested , if you 're not going to play it my way you can best show your regard for him by taking up my alternative offer of an airline ticket before he returns . |
| 7 | ‘ Why jeopardize what he had going for him by getting greedy ? |
| 8 | If matters are simplified for him by assuming that he can move only north , south , east or west , and excluding the possibility that he might collapse on the spot , can you visualize the path he would follow ? |
| 9 | the computer-based Stockmaster system does some of the customer 's work for him by maintaining a constant watch on CO2 stock level in his tanks . |
| 10 | Nothing , if the injury persisted , but whatever a man 's mates might collect for him by passing round a hat . |
| 11 | Then he rather undercut the room 's prim pity for him by roaring with laughter . |
| 12 | I made it easier for him by saying I was n't tired , I wanted to stay up and star-gaze , and anyway the sofa in the living area was very comfortable . |
| 13 | Houston police are trying to find a man who has succeeded in getting teenage girls to pose nude for him by saying they will appear in a music video for NEW KIDS ON THE BLOCK . |
| 14 | But the war also completed his task for him by sweeping away the remains of the system under which golf professionals had been subjugated as decent , working-class chaps . |
| 15 | It might not have prevented her feelings for him from developing as they had , but it would certainly not have caused a change in the atmosphere in this place , and he might have remained livable with . |
| 16 | It was a sudden shift for him from asking for … |
| 17 | Some of the delay is inevitably due to the way in which the applicant , having been through the preliminary investigation and the visit from the occupational therapist , considers the scheme proposed for him before proceeding to the formal application stage . |
| 18 | Gavin fished the spoon out , wiped it on his shirt , and gingerly offered it to his master , who gripped his wrist , jerked him forward and clattered his ears for him before letting him go . |
| 19 | We 've got future plans for him like getting him up on his feet and walk short distances with full-length calipers |
| 20 | Not to have a companion is for him like lacking a limb . |