Example sentences of "he [verb] for the [noun sg] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He tipped his seat back and zipped his jacket right up and he asked for the music to go on again , and he lay there in the dark with the music on , feeling warm in the middle of the freezing night , and he could feel himself smiling . |
| 2 | As he waits for the computer to load up the programmes , he scans the rolls of newly arrived faxes . |
| 3 | Bored as he waits for the liquid to boil , eyed admiringly by his pint-sized partner , he plays with wooden spills , dipping them into the solution and passing them through the flame beneath . |
| 4 | At the time when he calls for the actor to desist , the constable must already have reasonable grounds to believe that an offence has occurred . |
| 5 | The article appeared in an Italian magazine Metro , who had intended to pay $300 for an article ; but when Johns ' dealer , Leo Castelli , knew that Steinberg was considering an article , he arranged for the magazine to offer $1,000 , paying the difference of $700 himself . |
| 6 | The second point is best captured in Peter Hall 's 1982 defence of the enterprise zone model of urban policy , when , perhaps inadvertently , he called for the state to facilitate multinational corporations , ‘ doing in Liverpool what they already do in Singapore or Mexican border cities ’ ( 1982 , p418 ) . |
| 7 | He called for the inquiry to accept submissions from outside the service , for the final report to be published in full and for more resources to be provided if the report said they were needed . |
| 8 | And he pleaded for the public to write to Premier John Major to protest at the move . |
| 9 | He prays for the Deems-figure to win . ’ |
| 10 | He waited for the laughter to die down and then , ignoring Mickey Aronson , he leaned his head out of the window , gave his gravelly laugh and confided to the other men : ‘ A bigger ignoramus I never met ; he does n't even know that ships and cars are always female . ’ |
| 11 | As he waited for the noise to die down , Forester looked around the room . |
| 12 | Reloading the Walther , he waited for the lavatory to flush before going through to help the old man back to bed . |
| 13 | He waited for the Doctor to pass in front of him and followed . |
| 14 | While he waited for the bath to fill he went through the whole scene again in his head and congratulated himself for staying so calm . |
| 15 | Now I could hear the throb of impatience in his voice as he waited for the curtain to go up . |
| 16 | And to crown it all , ‘ What a charming companion you have been , ’ Ven commented across the table as he waited for the waiter to bring him their bill . |
| 17 | He waited for the train to shudder to a halt before jumping from the freight car and closing the door as quietly as possible behind him . |
| 18 | He longed for the opportunity to destroy it . |
| 19 | He longed for the chance to talk to each of them in private , but saw little hope of it . |
| 20 | He longed for the dream to end , desperate to wake up and find himself safe in bed . |