Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] his [noun sg] [verb] for " in BNC.

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1 Why did n't she go down to his house to see for herself ?
2 I can see fields and reservoirs and a motorway service station , and , given the proper magnification , I could probably make out Parish Clerk Weekley still on his roof waiting for his next photocall .
3 My first memory is of falling off a rather high bed at the age of three years on the evening that my parents had moved into a house near the top of Hampstead Heath , and of my Father going off on his bicycle to search for a doctor as I had cut my head .
4 Howard tilts the card back and forth until he has seen the couple in the corner leave , and the manager quietly coping with a customer who refuses to pay the bill , then puts it carefully into his pocket to save for his children , who love this kind of toy .
5 Whether or not her warning was genuine , she had come boldly to his room to ask for his escort to Winchester .
6 Excluded property which is not to be included in the estate of a person ( which means the aggregate of all the property to which that person is beneficially entitled including settled property in which he has an interest in possession ) immediately before his death embraces for CTT purposes : ( a ) settled property situated outside the United Kingdom unless the settlor was domiciled in the United Kingdom at the time the settlement was made ; and ( b ) securities issued by the Treasury subject to the condition that they shall be exempt from taxation while in the beneficial ownership of persons neither domiciled nor ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom provided in the case of settled property either that such .
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