Example sentences of "he [verb] [adv prt] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well we 're gon na try get him to go out for a drink er one evening with that tape recorder so we 're gon na record the conversation on the side of that . |
| 2 | I rang Seddon at home before he left for New Scotland Yard and asked him to find out for me the names of the officers who had dealt with the Southwark Bridge case . |
| 3 | I ask him to come down for a few days and I also invite Lady De Marr . |
| 4 | ‘ Tell you what , see if you can persuade him to come down for an X-ray . |
| 5 | ‘ Well , that 's the first thing we have to make him see , then we need to get him to come in for regular counselling sessions . ’ |
| 6 | There had been no handkerchieves for him to work on for several days and there was not very much to eat for dinner . |
| 7 | His natural , male hunger had driven him to reach out for her . |
| 8 | Well I suppose with him going out for walks from here he knows that |
| 9 | She helps William Ernest with his reading and encourages him to stick up for himself at school . |
| 10 | When Meredith asked him to pop out for cigarettes , he replied vulgarly , ‘ What did your last servant die of ? ’ |
| 11 | I sat in my pew and heard him prate on for at least an hour and a half . |
| 12 | For the last hour his progressively alcoholised brain had reminded him of the consequences of justice ( small ‘ j ’ ) : of bringing a criminal before the courts , ensuring that he was convicted for his sins ( or was it his crimes ? ) , and then getting him locked up for the rest of his life , perhaps , in a prison where he would never again go to the WC without someone observing such an embarrassingly private function , someone smelling him , someone humiliating him . |
| 13 | So I had a er I got him set up for the morning jobs and then I did the afternoon jobs with him . |
| 14 | She could just imagine him closing in for the kill . |
| 15 | I must admit I kept him tied up for longer than I was advised as I wanted to make sure he was capable of moving about safely as he invariably would want to look out of the door and then go back to his food . |
| 16 | Had she got him marked out for her vicious games for life ? |
| 17 | ‘ Good , Fox is on remand in Saughton , I 'll get him brought down for an ID parade , Strathclyde will bring Dalton through for us . |
| 18 | Do you think there 's any chance of him coming back for the opening of — ? ’ |
| 19 | I felt him go off for a few seconds . |
| 20 | The child 's own feelings were split between mortification at a christening that doomed him to live out for good a pun that he could already see to be gruesome and pride that his father had cared for him enough to embed him into his act by the very roots of his name . |
| 21 | I ca n't see him sitting down for a quiet civilized three cornered discussion . ’ |
| 22 | He watched George going into MacDougalls , let him settle down for three minutes and then he 'd strike . |
| 23 | They needed the captain back on the rails immediately , and they knew the best way to do this was let him simmer down for 24 hours . |
| 24 | Let him find out for himself . |
| 25 | This hooking action is important because it interferes with the opponent 's attempts to free his arm and keeps him closed off for a longer period . |
| 26 | But what he lacked in build he made up for in speed and skill , nipping in and out of solid defences with astounding ease . |
| 27 | He was not tall , close to minimum height in fact , but he was stocky , and he made up for lack of inches with a pressing , high-speed manner which sometimes made people think he was all noise and movement and no intelligence . |
| 28 | But he made up for it there by scoring a half century . |
| 29 | He was aware of one thing about Ken on these trips : his concern about a lack of education which he made up for with his voracious reading . |
| 30 | I always thought that what he lacked in defensive qualities he made up for in attacking qualities . |