Example sentences of "[noun] [to-vb] he for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wahono , general chair of Golkar ( the ruling Functional Group Centre or Golongan Karya Pusat ) , announced on Oct. 20 that President Suharto had agreed to Golkar 's plan to nominate him for a sixth five-year term as president . |
| 2 | And yesterday he called their refusal to consider him for a factory floor job ‘ pathetic and ridiculous ’ . |
| 3 | When he and Johnson got back to their inn , Boswell ‘ begged permission to leave him for a little while , that I might run about and pay some short visits to several good people of Inverness ’ . |
| 4 | While studying Tzintzuntzan , the anthropologist George Foster found that the female villagers would ask his wife to approach him for a favour ( Foster 1967 ) . |
| 5 | Grateful to be spared the unsettling power of that dark gaze , Ronni took the opportunity to study him for a moment . |
| 6 | If he is taken to court , detectives can apply for permission to question him for a further 24 hours . |
| 7 | All ways to hold him for a while . |
| 8 | ‘ This story of Terry 's about going after your father to ask him for a loan to buy a small-holding — what do you make of that ? ’ |
| 9 | The unsuspecting victim was horrified when a ‘ corpse ’ leaned out of an open coffin to ask him for a takeaway pizza . |
| 10 | They kept in touch and then , last March , Jakki took up Jim 's invitation to visit him for a week 's holiday . |
| 11 | A Glasgow friend , Tony Sykes , a great fisherman , at least he kept telling everyone he was , persuaded me against my better judgment to join him for a day 's salmon fishing on the River Ayr at Mauchline . |