Example sentences of "[verb] for [pers pn] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But , Father , I never meant to kill , when I slipped out alone , and went to wait for him on the path by which I knew he must return . |
| 2 | At rehearsals , Les Cox agreed it would be wiser not to practise falling down the stairs as it was a skill which took months to acquire — better just to go for it on the night . |
| 3 | In short , Labour and the Liberal Democrats will have the argument won for them on the ground — and as long as they locate their policies in terms of wealth creation , rather than punitive redistribution , the current election election result has given them a platform from which effectively to challenge for power next time round . |
| 4 | Do n't worry , I 've told the solicitors that are appearing for us on the sixteenth of July that that 's the situation , that the have not joined in all of the partners |
| 5 | Beside him sat a man of such immense proportions that Eddie Stratton wondered how he could ever fit into the seat that had been booked for him on the flight to Heathrow , scheduled to leave in forty minutes ' time . |
| 6 | Yes , Mrs Jones , we have a room booked for you on the thirtieth of July — can I be of any assistance to you ? |
| 7 | They 're looking for him on the moors . ’ |
| 8 | Now , new offices were being built for it on the other side of the road , but they were not quite ready , and meantime , the new publisher from the East and his editors functioned in an atmosphere of such utter confusion that it is doubtful if an efficiency expert could even have fought his way in through the door . |
| 9 | Well they 're actually paying for it on the erm |
| 10 | She recently changed erm , to come and work for me on the Warwickshire area about four weeks ago . |
| 11 | That he 'd gone out to look for her on the road and across the clunch pit field , returning alone half an hour later . |
| 12 | Actual guides were waiting for them on the Scots side , from the Graham tower , producing a grim smile from Douglas , for one of his principal headaches as Keeper of Liddesdale was apt to be the inroads and cross-border raiding of these same Grahams , Kirkandrews prominent . |
| 13 | Hurley was waiting for them on the tarmac near the terminal in his big blue BMW 520i . |
| 14 | Why were some men waiting for her on the night she died ? |
| 15 | At some unconscious level that was exactly what she had expected six months earlier — to step off the plane and see the man of her dreams waiting for her on the tarmac . |
| 16 | But he was confronted by an ecstatic welcome from his mother , who was waiting for him on the doorstep . |
| 17 | So the next morning she went to Rouen station , and when her son , still wearing a fresh crust of pride and sex , got off the train , she was waiting for him on the platform . |
| 18 | Everything had been going so well this time ; leaving Glasgow on Saturday anticipation had been high , Amanda had even been waiting for him on the pavement outside her flat . |
| 19 | Beryl Garland was waiting for him on the landing , a lean , bony woman with uncared-for greying hair , a pallid complexion blotched with an unnatural pink , and restless suspicious eyes . |
| 20 | The Prince was waiting for him on the terrace of the Hotel Continental , sitting by himself and looking bored . |
| 21 | So she paid for it on the spot and took it home . |
| 22 | So he passed over and the trumpets sounded for him on the other side . ’ |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | I 'm gon na call for him on the way . |
| 25 | Such banquets are portrayed for us on the Bayeux Tapestry , or at least the early stages of them . |
| 26 | is it but you see you could er pay for them on the ferry then |
| 27 | He feels for it on the roof . |
| 28 | He held his hands up and admitted an error and we felt for him on the night . |
| 29 | Of the twenty original members it is likely that only two ( Sir Keith Joseph and Airey Neave ) voted for her on the first ballot for the leadershiP election in 1975 . |
| 30 | But his baptism , administered to him by another , sealing physically upon him the objectiveness of what Christ did for him on the cross , that was indeed a ground of assurance . |