Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] for [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I asked for it at the suggestion of my cousin Sarah , who was slightly older than me and whom I greatly admired . |
| 2 | Well , perhaps I asked for it in a way , ’ Felicity admitted reluctantly . |
| 3 | Or the poster I produced for you of the doves of peace made with human hands . |
| 4 | Seve finished second to Johnny Miller and after that I caddied for him until the end of 1979 . |
| 5 | He adds : ‘ I also felt that I wanted to give the love that I felt for her in the way she needs love to be given . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ I looked for you after the raft procession , but you were nowhere to be seen . ’ |
| 7 | Here 's what I wrote in the obituary I did for him in The Guardian : |
| 8 | Now I supported Prescott , I must say I voted for him for the er for deputy leader , right , but I think he 's wrong , right , on this particular issue , this compromise that he 's floating and I think it should be dropped . |
| 9 | I wished for nothing but the absence of pain , and Lili seemed beyond harm : as secure and unassailable as the morning-star . |
| 10 | I remember , I waited for her in the waiting room . |
| 11 | I waited for him for an hour , outside his half-built apartment building . |
| 12 | I waited for you at the gate . |
| 13 | So she paid for it on the spot and took it home . |
| 14 | The conclusive Senate vote was scheduled for Oct. 8 , but had to be delayed for seven days following revelation of new evidence from Anita Hill , 35 , a black University of Oklahoma teacher of law , who alleged that Thomas had subjected her to sexual harassment with explicit , pornographic suggestions when she worked for him at the Department of Education and the EEOC in the early 1980s . |
| 15 | ‘ I know very little about her , although she worked for him in the war too . |
| 16 | You looked for him in the Green Room , but found only his jacket . |
| 17 | She looked for him in the oven , the fridge , the wicker basket that held wastepaper beside her desk . |
| 18 | Demelza , whose mother is her only relative , wanted a gran so much she advertised for one in a Jobcentre . |
| 19 | Determined not to let him keep the advantage , she bundled the unwanted attraction she felt for him into a cupboard and locked the door on it , before retorting sweetly , ‘ Well , as your invitation was so pressing , I thought I might as well take full advantage of it . ’ |
| 20 | The voting er you voted for them at the delegate meeting and I think it was the six top six highest in the vote became the standing orders . |
| 21 | ‘ Ah , David , ’ said Julia , sighing as she waited for him on the pavement . |
| 22 | He chattered at her , sleepy and indignant as she dived for him among the dirty linen , the old letters , a moth-eaten scarf . |
| 23 | We asked for nothing but a few gestures — |
| 24 | We called for him in a taxi at Faber 's , Margaret waiting inside the vehicle . |
| 25 | He held his hands up and admitted an error and we felt for him on the night . |
| 26 | It is time we voted for ourselves for a change . |
| 27 | After the overthrow of Avitus in 456 Majorian had to use force to bring the Visigoths into line , but thereafter they fought for him against the Sueves in Spain . |
| 28 | They looked for it at the hospital and at the police station . |
| 29 | They looked for it inside the white car . |
| 30 | She knew he cared , he showed it , but he would n't say the things she wanted to hear — that he cared for her to the exclusion of all others , and wanted her in his life to the exclusion of all others . |