Example sentences of "[to-vb] for [pron] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As she turned to wait for me at the end of the path , I felt I was looking at her for the first time : her face paler than her arms , a blonde shadow on her upper lip , no lipstick . |
| 2 | I grinned wickedly back and told Benjamin to wait for me in the street outside . |
| 3 | But , Father , I never meant to kill , when I slipped out alone , and went to wait for him on the path by which I knew he must return . |
| 4 | When he goes out there to wait for her in the evening , I sometimes think : It is n't Rosa . |
| 5 | At rehearsals , Les Cox agreed it would be wiser not to practise falling down the stairs as it was a skill which took months to acquire — better just to go for it on the night . |
| 6 | On the contrary , to emphasise the personal and private nature of moral or immoral conduct is to emphasise the personal and private responsibility of the individual for his own actions , and this is a responsibility which a mature agent can properly be expected to carry for himself without the threat of punishment from the law . |
| 7 | She had to perform for them with the spotlight on her and she knew that no trick would be good enough . |
| 8 | Uncle Tommy , along with the Fawcetts and John Thwaites from High Birk Hatt , used to work for him during the grouse season . |
| 9 | The Americans forged ahead not only because they could deploy greater resources , but also because they were more ruthless in seeking out key German experts during the chaos of the German surrender , and in persuading them to work for them in the United States . |
| 10 | ‘ You want me to work for you after the way you 've treated me ? |
| 11 | She clattered with the grids , rather excessively he thought , twisting round to reach for them beyond the bowl of soapy water . |
| 12 | That he 'd gone out to look for her on the road and across the clunch pit field , returning alone half an hour later . |
| 13 | We told him to look for us in the evening . |
| 14 | It hit the platform fence and ran under the carriage ; as quick as a flash the boy darted past Charlotte and Albert and tried to look for it under the wheels . |
| 15 | She 's too stuck up to look for it in the back of a cab just yet , but it 'll come to it one day when she gets a few more years on her , even the milkman wo n't be safe and she 'll be grateful . |
| 16 | ‘ We shall want you to play for us in the pageant . ’ |
| 17 | First , they are not providential signs inviting the beholder to wish for something with the promise that such a wish will be fulfilled . |
| 18 | Although Tory Euro-rebels support the Government in opposing the social chapter , they are prepared to vote for it in the hope of wrecking the whole treaty . |
| 19 | Their choice to negotiate for them over the property group 's restructuring is the American financier who , after a colourful career in the more maverick corners of the Euromarkets , agreed to buy the Marshalls money-broking business from British & Commonwealth but failed to find the cash . |
| 20 | Svend Larsen had told him that the farm was becoming vacant and had offered to negotiate for it on the Colonel 's behalf , the islanders not wanting incomers to buy up farms for weekend occupation only . |
| 21 | You stopped because you both decided it was the right thing to do for you at the time . |
| 22 | ‘ In taking this on , there 's a responsibility goes with it , sure , and it was a weird sensation at first being in the studio and feeling that if I wanted to fight for something with the producer , I did n't have any allies … |
| 23 | How else to account for what at the time seemed wildly erratic behaviour , when in 1977 a group of distinguished architects and others , members of the newly formed Spitalfields Trust , squatted in two derelict early Georgian houses in Elder Street , thwarting the property developer 's bulldozers by sheer persistence . |
| 24 | When Betjeman failed his Divinity exams at the end of his first year , it would have been open to his tutor to plead for him with the College so that he could resit these comparatively unimportant exams and stay on at the University . |
| 25 | The United Kingdom 's right to decide for itself on the merits of a single currency is not an important factor in investment decisions . |
| 26 | And if so , why had he paid those two to watch for us at the airport ? |
| 27 | And then there was all this problem of who was going to pay for him for the rest of his life because he was a vegetable . ’ |
| 28 | But the only way the BBC can afford to make original programmes for relatively limited audiences , such as science , is to pay for them with the profits generated by the sale of archive material of wider appeal . |
| 29 | We w er we would , we would only need to pay for them at the rate where they lived . |
| 30 | When a customer wants to pay for something through the system , he or she presents a banker 's card or a Visa credit card to the shopkeeper . |