Example sentences of "[vb pp] [verb] for [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She told me that just across the road there lived what she described as a mantenuta , a kept woman , whose lover visited her every day : she could be seen waiting for him behind the semi-closed shutters . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | He was retained by the king as one of his serjeants between 1287 and 1293 and is to be found acting for him in the 1287 Gloucestershire eyre and in the northern circuit eyres of 1292–3 as well as in the Common Bench and in the Exchequer . |
| 4 | Of course , that is what we have to look for , and , of course , there are inevitably going to be occasions when we are compelled to look for it outside the four corners of the language that the draftsman has used . |
| 5 | In the case of a minor , or of a mental patient where no person is authorised to act for him by the Court of Protection , then the " next friend " must file a written undertaking ( N 235 ) , attested as would be an affidavit , to be responsible for costs ( Ord 10 , r 2(b) ) . |
| 6 | As the years have passed , he 's started waiting for us at the door on visitors ' days . |
| 7 | Forlani , 66 , had on May 17 withdrawn his candidacy for the presidency after up to 60 members of parties participating in the former ruling coalition , including many DC deputies , had failed to vote for him in the fifth , sixth and seventh rounds . |