Example sentences of "he [verb] for the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 61 | Miss Polly had a dolly who was sick , sick so he phoned for the doctor to be quick , quick , he phoned for the doctor to be quick |
| 62 | with a rat a tat , he phoned for the doctor |
| 63 | Miss Polly had a dolly who was sick , sick , sick so he phoned for the doctor to be quick , quick , quick |
| 64 | I wan na do all of them on me own so he phoned for the doctor to be quick , quick , quick , said Miss Polly put her straight to bed he wrote on a paper for a pill , pill , pill |
| 65 | In all but one he found for the complainant . |
| 66 | but when he pauses for the interpreter 's turn |
| 67 | He payed for the education of children from the families who could n't afford it , and the ablest of the children he sent to university . |
| 68 | The crowd opened up and he headed for the gate . |
| 69 | By nightfall he believed he was 30 miles from Lubeck , so next morning he headed for the port along with workpeople . |
| 70 | So it was a quietly defiant Alistair who , the next morning , came plodding down the stairs , and glanced at the splayed mail on the shelf as he headed for the door . |
| 71 | He headed for the door , pausing to look at Lindsey . |
| 72 | A dejected slump to his heavy shoulders , he headed for the door . |
| 73 | He strode towards her , his shoulder brushing hard against hers as he headed for the door . |
| 74 | As he headed for the sanctuary of the dressing-room , accompanied by armed soldiers , the home fans spat , threw coins and jeered at the tiny Scot . |
| 75 | But instead he headed for the bathroom . |
| 76 | Outside , he headed for the bridge and there , halfway across , he came at last to a halt , with traffic rushing past , the river gleaming below and the city reaching away in an infinite complex parade of shining white and pearly grey with light snapping from windows and cars . |
| 77 | But Horsley put these thoughts to the back of his mind as he headed for the party at Caxton House , determined to enter into the spirit of things . |
| 78 | With that he headed for the garden gate , rubbing his hands on a rag . |
| 79 | ‘ So you have to keep at him because like all kids he lives for the telly and various electronic gadgets and he 'd be quite happy eating crisps and playing for the rest of his life . |
| 80 | Then he heads for the store , to cash it in . |
| 81 | Finishing burst : Scotland 's Tom McKean leads the pack as he heads for the line and victory in the 800 metres at the World Indoor Track and Field Championships in Toronto |
| 82 | Nor did he reveal any keener affinity with Schubert in the rather mechanical , plainly stated accompaniments that he provided for the mezzo Yvonne Howard . |
| 83 | His high profile as a comedian , poet , singer and musician has a lot to do with the regular weekly poem he writes for the Weekend Guardian , recent appearances on radio in ‘ Kaleidoscope ’ and ‘ Loose Ends ’ and the ‘ Time Out ’ Cabaret Award , but it is in his live stage act that he can best be appreciated as an hilarious dead-pan comic . |
| 84 | Will the Minister assure the House that , whatever privatisation plans he has for the trust ports , there will be no recognition of those people who seem to have an interest in cashing in on the endeavours for their own ends ? |
| 85 | To ask the Prime Minister what plans he has for the future of the May day bank holiday . |
| 86 | To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what proposals he has for the alleviation of homelessness in Scotland . |
| 87 | Souness is fixing me with the glare he reserves for the enemy , the look that countless midfield players must have known to their terror , a look that threatens to rupture my Achilles tendon , if I hover on a question too long . |
| 88 | How much of this delightfully frank list of requirements the Earl passed on to the man he approached for the job of chairman , the art historian Sir Kenneth Clark ( Winchester and Oxford ) , is not recorded . |
| 89 | Whatever the motivation , these amalgamations may happen several times during the months that he cares for the flock . |
| 90 | He designed for the firm until the end of his life in 1799 . |