Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] [pron] [to-vb] for [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " Matthew has asked me to work for him again . " |
| 2 | I explained that I 'd found someone to substitute for me — one of the Carter boys was looking for holiday work — but he kept making objections about unqualified staff , mentioning a notorious case a few years earlier when one malcontent teacher wreaked his revenge by teaching a group of teenage Italians that the English greet each other in the street with the phrase ‘ Piss off , wanker . ’ |
| 3 | He 'd asked her to wait for him , and although she 'd been too angry at the time to say that she would , she had nevertheless avoided marriage to anyone else despite the many proposals she 'd had . |
| 4 | He knows you were with me and may have set someone to watch for you . ’ |
| 5 | ( Miss Hardbroom had told them to revise for it after breakfast . ) |
| 6 | And then J. D. O'Connor , who edits the Clarion Cry , had asked me to write for him — almost as a joke at first — about women 's lives . |