Example sentences of "he [verb] [pron] [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | He made me wait for two years . |
| 2 | He made her wait for an answer as he topped the teapot up with hot water and Ruth 's imagination went off on its own . |
| 3 | Well , of course she wants a drink , thought Scarlet , what does he think she came for ? |
| 4 | When Toscanini was told about this he doubled their winning for them . |
| 5 | Erm , no yo I 've , er I 've asked him at the parents ' evening what he expected us to do for economics , right ? |
| 6 | Then she met Woody at a New York exhibition of Luc 's paintings — and he asked her to audition for Husbands and Wives . |
| 7 | ‘ Would he know what to look for ? |
| 8 | He found himself looking for her in the street , in the trains that took him down to his busking . |
| 9 | He found himself hovering for a dangerous moment between pity and fear and he fought down the pity at once , for it was not to be thought of that he should feel such an emotion for this evil being . |
| 10 | He found himself praying for Eileen and the Commander and all the dead , wherever they were . |
| 11 | Indeed , the more he thought about it , the less appetite he found he had for it . |
| 12 | My brother was sacked by a Tory council many years ago in Derbyshire because he had the guts to take it on , and he has nothing to apologise for . |
| 13 | He wants us to believe that the ‘ system ’ is responsible for the fact that , at year 's end , he has nothing to show for his effort apart from the diary , a self-indulgent television film and debts from an aborted project . |
| 14 | The child can have his football boots because the words ‘ we ca n't afford it ’ will be linked to the long-gone and not-lamented past : the tyrant can not control against the will of the subject because he can not frighten his people with notions of helplessness and poverty : the employer will have to charm and wheedle his workers if he wants them to work for him : he will have to sing and dance to entertain them : enthuse them with pleasure for their daily toil : they will be paid with the world 's respect , and all around them there will be abundance . |
| 15 | I cost him a lot in little things , but I know he wants me to ask for something big . |
| 16 | Keegan responded : ‘ It sounds like he wants me to stay for 10 years . |
| 17 | Rachel cheers me up by saying she was leaving anyhow , and if he wants her to pay for the night then she will and to hell with it . |
| 18 | He wants us to account for our stewardship . |
| 19 | And yo you 're never gon na guess what he wants us to do for our final bit of course work ? |
| 20 | Neil , Neil now says , that when he meets a girl , he , he waits to see if she 's got any characteristics in common with the dreadful Vicky , the girl that he eventually fetch her much deserved slosh on the chops and was pulled into Ipswich Magistrates Court , you know , oh I should n't laugh , but erm , he says he looks for those characteristics , and the moment he sees that the girl is going to be this sort of neurotic , excitable , hysterical creature he walks away . |
| 21 | David is concerned at the length of time he says it took for an ambulance to arrive . |
| 22 | Then he told me to wait for him after I had visited my father , and said that he would try to think of a way to help me without arousing any suspicion . |
| 23 | He told me to watch for a seaman with one leg and to let him know the moment when a man like that appeared . |
| 24 | Thomas was already in the grip of a disorder not at all native to him , and now he suddenly confounded everything he believed he felt for Simon by remembering with hatred one of his adopted son 's practical jokes . |
| 25 | The incommodiousness of Scotch windows keeps them very closely shut … even in houses well built and elegantly furnished , a stranger may be sometimes forgiven if he allows himself to wish for fresher air . ’ |
| 26 | Noting that rats tend naturally to be either left- or right-pawed in reaching for and picking up their food , he constrained them to reach for their food with the non-preferred paw and reported changes in RNA and protein synthesis in the region and side of the brain responsible for the motor coordination of the ‘ learning ’ paw compared with the ‘ non-learning ’ side . |
| 27 | He heard him whistling for his dog . |
| 28 | He taught me to aim for the knees since any weapon firing on automatic would climb high and right , and thus the fall of shot could be evenly distributed across the stomach and torso , ending in the head . |
| 29 | When he finally left , he saw them waiting for him . |
| 30 | They say never ask for whom the bell tolls , but when Steven Ivin heard one ring out after the second world war he knew it tolled for him . |