Example sentences of "[verb] for [pers pn] in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd been caddying for Ralph Moffatt on the pro circuit and got him through the pre-qualifier at Fairhaven , so I told him I 'd be caddying for him in the Open as I 'd heard nothing from Jack . |
| 2 | If the seller wants a margin , he must stipulate for it in the contractual description . |
| 3 | When he left his room , he knocked on the women 's door ; he would wait for them in the small restaurant at the front of the hotel . |
| 4 | It is particularly interesting , however , to discover that a small group of white collar workers at Rolls Royce did not want an intellectually taxing job and provisions were made for them in the final design . |
| 5 | But the politicians are looking for it in the wrong direction . |
| 6 | Now we were using a rather old radio set at the time called a TR9 that was not one of the better things that our radio and radar boffins produced for us in the early days of RT air-to-ground and vice-versa . |
| 7 | It was getting late and her youngest child , Tudor , who had accompanied her to the funeral , and was now waiting for her in the local hotel , would be growing anxious . |
| 8 | they were waiting for her in the old house : Louise , her mother , her aunt Bella and her grandmother , Irena . |
| 9 | Perhaps they will spawn for you in the new tank . |
| 10 | ‘ With the Smart Rope , the condition of the rope being hired is visible and the hirer can sign for it in the full knowledge of its condition , ’ says Jim Oag . |
| 11 | Yes you normally pay for it in the following year . |
| 12 | Accepting that you will need to provide either training or re-training for your existing staff means that you will remember to budget for it in the overall cost of the system . |
| 13 | Determined to shoot one with a really fine head , I decided to spend a night near the mountain-top so that I could hunt for them in the early morning before they lay up for the day . |
| 14 | You looked for him in the Green Room , but found only his jacket . |
| 15 | Marion searched for him in the crowded room , and found him at last , talking to Sue 's dad near the window . |
| 16 | Gareth Morgan , his deputy and confidante , waited for him in the large office with windows overlooking the City . |
| 17 | The contrast between British Socialism , as then exemplified by trade unionism , and LEGA , could hardly be sharper ; the first , insistent on its traditional and conservative role , the role dispensed for it in the Victorian era by evolving Capitalism — to purvey labour to employing capital ; the second , looking towards a synthesis to accommodate and resolve the opposed interests contained in that dispensation , looking towards ‘ the third way ’ . |
| 18 | He passed them on to another colleague who led us finally to our places which were kept for us in the Grand Salon . |
| 19 | Lou went along with him for every show , with a place always reserved for her in the front row . |
| 20 | There is a kind of confidence , typified in the prayer to Christ the source of sweet honey-cells of devotion , which is at odds with the stark mood provoked by a revulsion from sin in the whole piece and which is very different from the whole thrust of the short version : The profound realisation of Jesus as a source of grace at the heart of this passage in the long version colours the meditator 's longing for it in the other expanded meditations that open out of this sequence of prayers . |