Example sentences of "he [verb] [prep] [pers pn] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He stutters , but he caddied for me for five years and he knows the game inside out . |
| 2 | He worked with them for ten years , initially on the Sydney harbour and Newcastle upon Tyne bridges , and then from 1931 on the design and construction of welded steel bridges , of which his Billingham bridge was the first all-welded bridge in Britain . |
| 3 | He looked at her for several interminable seconds . |
| 4 | He looked around him for some sort of weapon , backing off as Duvall walked slowly towards him . |
| 5 | His expression blank , he stared at her for long moments . |
| 6 | He stared at her for several seconds as if he could not remember who she was . |
| 7 | ‘ This , ’ complained Wedderburn , ‘ gives him vast uneasiness , for if he is ordered abroad before he gets his Post he dispairs of it for some time . ’ |
| 8 | He waited with her for eight hours at the Northampton car park . |
| 9 | He waited with her for eight hours at the Northampton car park . |
| 10 | He sat in it for fourteen hours a day , hoping to get about £2,000 for all the appeals which lay before him . ’ |
| 11 | He stood in it for fifteen minutes , until it rang on the dot of nine . |