Example sentences of "he [verb] [pron] [verb] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He made me wait for two years . |
| 2 | Keegan responded : ‘ It sounds like he wants me to stay for 10 years . |
| 3 | Neil , Neil now says , that when he meets a girl , he , he waits to see if she 's got any characteristics in common with the dreadful Vicky , the girl that he eventually fetch her much deserved slosh on the chops and was pulled into Ipswich Magistrates Court , you know , oh I should n't laugh , but erm , he says he looks for those characteristics , and the moment he sees that the girl is going to be this sort of neurotic , excitable , hysterical creature he walks away . |
| 4 | The incommodiousness of Scotch windows keeps them very closely shut … even in houses well built and elegantly furnished , a stranger may be sometimes forgiven if he allows himself to wish for fresher air . ’ |
| 5 | A few years before he died he posed for this effigy , placing the completed picture in his room , adjacent to his bed , as a memento mori . |