Example sentences of "he [verb] to [pron] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | He clung to it for support , crouched for a view , glimpsed a retreating figure on the dwindling platform , then was swallowed in the soot-plumed tunnel . |
| 2 | He read to himself for a few minutes while William perused the review section , but his agitation could not long be contained in silence . |
| 3 | When the vicar got a new bishop who was Anglo-Catholic he appealed to him for his sanction , in the hope that the bishop 's approval would make up for the lack of faculty . |
| 4 | He came to me for stuff to forget all that . |
| 5 | I was on the board of the bank then , and he came to me for advice about a takeover bid for his company . |
| 6 | ‘ He came to me for help and those men murdered him ! |
| 7 | He was very upset ; and still , after five years , he turned to her for comfort and advice ; still like a child , her child . |
| 8 | ‘ Well , he never lets anyone over the door and he sees to himself for the most part . |
| 9 | I 'm surprised he stuck to you for as long as he did . ’ |
| 10 | When my Noble Friend was kind enough to say that he looked to me for help as being I think he said an ornament on the front bench , was n't quite certain whether that was supposed to be a compliment or not , but I thought an ornament or something that you that sat upon a er er er er er upon a shelf and looked pretty , but did n't actually do anything . |
| 11 | He apologised to me for paying insufficient attention while entering a strange harbour . ’ |