Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] him [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | I want him to shoot for every flag . |
| 2 | He declines and asks whether I want him to wait for me . |
| 3 | I might say ‘ Yes he s good and I want him to play for Leeds ’ . |
| 4 | I let him cry for a bit and then went over to him and squatted down beside him and put my hand over his shoulders . |
| 5 | He pretended to me that he was already booked in there , but he was n't — I heard him ask for the room afterwards . |
| 6 | Those were the last words I heard him say for over two years . |
| 7 | Having completed the steeplechase , I let the horse canter along for about half a kilometre , then I allow him to walk for nearly a whole kilometre , bearing in mind , you will most likely have to ‘ make up time ’ later on . |
| 8 | I asked for one ticket and paid for it , then I watched him ask for the same and fish down inside his carrier bag and bring out a ten pound note . |
| 9 | His body was hairy , muscled , well-shaped , and when I saw him strip for bed he reminded me of a gorilla about to pounce upon its prey . |
| 10 | But he had an appointment with a delegate of the Slaters union at the Freemasons lodge in the Imperial , but I persuaded him to come for a drink . |
| 11 | May I urge him to press for a return to traditional standards of teaching in our primary schools as soon as possible ? |
| 12 | Stuart was only 17 years old and it is a tribute to his strength and personality that he was still conscious when the rescue team arrived , one and a half hours after I left him to go for help . |
| 13 | Now I see him scramble for the fallen gun . |
| 14 | Before leaving London I had sent him , as requested , two questions about the U-boat war which I wanted him to answer for the programme . |
| 15 | Following a meeting this morning at the Department of Energy , may I ask him to arrange for the Secretary of State to make a statement answering the anger in Coventry , not just about the way in which the pit was closed and the loss of jobs , but the belief that the closure took place to mothball 40 million tonnes of medium sulphur content coal so that , were the Conservatives to be re-elected and the pits privatised , Daw Mill could take that coal out in a UDM pit ? |
| 16 | Twice she asked him to stay for a cup of tea , but he refused . |
| 17 | BEVERLY Hills 90210 star Luke Perry had to throw a girl out of the men 's room at a Hollywood pizzeria after she followed him to ask for his autograph . |
| 18 | She ordered him to dance for her before she bestowed the treats . |
| 19 | But if you hear him speak for five minutes you think no more of them . |
| 20 | You heard him ask for diamonds instead of cash . |
| 21 | She heard him reach for another sandwich . |
| 22 | She heard him calling for her quietly , then loudly . |
| 23 | Evelyn shuddered as she watched him crouch for a second , then spring up and take off jauntily like a half mangled insect . |
| 24 | This Simone has come directly from playing the Dame of pantomime and maintains that character from her very first entrance when she shakes a tablecloth out of the window and then furiously throws every vegetable in sight at Colas because she finds him waiting for Lise . |
| 25 | ‘ I 'll tell Mr Wilcox she 's here , ’ said Brian Everthorpe , and Robyn thought she saw him wink for some inscrutable reason . |
| 26 | How she managed to find a smile for Ivo when she saw him waiting for her in the foyer , she did n't know . |
| 27 | But if you saw him running for the bus , he would go blue in the face and collapse on to the bus . |
| 28 | She felt a warm sense of power as she kept him dangling for a moment . |
| 29 | Naylor Massingham demanded , growing more furious , she realised , the longer she kept him waiting for an answer . |
| 30 | But when she wanted him to pose for her book of erotic fantasies , wearing just a g-string , Luke declined . |