Example sentences of "he [verb] for [pron] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | A week later the labour master was convicted ; he was fined ten shillings and costs , although the solicitor who was defending him asked for him to be sentenced to a term of imprisonment ( in which case , an appeal could have been lodged ) . |
| 2 | In 1790 a great meeting of tanners held in London elected him to speak for them to the prime minister , William Pitt , concerning the distressed state of the tanning trade ; and in 1793 he wrote to parliament on behalf of Bristol tanners to suggest remedies for the scarcity of the oak bark used in tanning . |
| 3 | She knew he cared , he showed it , but he would n't say the things she wanted to hear — that he cared for her to the exclusion of all others , and wanted her in his life to the exclusion of all others . |
| 4 | He asked for them to be clearly marked , packed in damp moss and sent to Lord Cornbury 's by Oxford Chapel , ‘ where I am to be around generally any morning before ten if you ever have time to call ’ . |
| 5 | You know he paid for it to be |
| 6 | He waits for them to on the ba , on the jar you know ! |
| 7 | He waits for me to er go to bed now . |
| 8 | Pasternak was apparently impressed ; far lesser actors than Nicholson would eventually become began their careers by similar bravado , and he arranged for him to be tested . |
| 9 | He arranged for him to be released from his vows and work as a chaplain in Templecombe and the surrounding villages and hamlets . ’ |
| 10 | He arranged for it to be bound in silver and , to hide his embarrassment , had it inscribed Risum teneatis , amica — ‘ Restrain your laughter , friends ’ . |
| 11 | He arranged for it to be published within a year by the Cambridge University press , overcoming the scruples of the Vice-Chancellor , who objected to the passage |
| 12 | He dialled out , and as he waited for it to be answered he knew he was using a line more private than anything set up between the Kremlin and the White House . |
| 13 | As he waited for it to be answered he drummed lightly on the desk top . |
| 14 | More than that : he had himself sprung from the upper working class and naturally despised as unclean the lower working class : his life was made a misery by their proximity , and he longed for them to be evicted or murder each other in one of their not infrequent rows . |
| 15 | He longed for her to either finish her job and go back to Germany , or do something blatantly treacherous so he would have an excuse to get rid of her . |