Example sentences of "[verb] [v-ing] for he " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ All that stuff about community meant you could leave the kids with your mum if you had something to do , and you would n't grass on Charlie if the police came looking for him , and you could borrow ten bob to keep you going to the end of the week . |
| 2 | One day her mother came looking for him with a great heavy umbrella in her hand . |
| 3 | She told me that just across the road there lived what she described as a mantenuta , a kept woman , whose lover visited her every day : she could be seen waiting for him behind the semi-closed shutters . |
| 4 | The next thing I recall is hearing Daniel 's screams and going looking for him . |
| 5 | With all he 'd got going for him , was it any wonder that she should find him more — um — interesting than any man she had ever met ? |
| 6 | That 's the only thing he 's got going for him . |
| 7 | He was successful with his dance troupes for many years despite the fact that young girls did not like working for him as he was notorious for his wandering hands and slimy advances . |
| 8 | She keeps apologizing for him . |
| 9 | Whole life spent searching for him . |
| 10 | They would never stop looking for him now . |
| 11 | Looking back to the latter half of our time in Scotland , I seem to have been engaged in a variety of activities : was twice part of a consortium to bid ( unsuccessfully ) for the franchise for Scottish Television ; was appointed chairman of the board of Edinburgh 's Royal Lyceum Theatre Company , a post I held for seven years ; was persuaded to stand as a candidate for Lord Rector of Edinburgh University and ( mercifully ) was defeated by its former Roman Catholic chaplain ; gave poetry recitals with Moira at Edinburgh Festivals and elsewhere ; attacked in a lecture to the Royal Society of Arts the moronic language of disc jockeys whom I referred to as ‘ the Anyway Boys ’ ( the word ‘ anyway ’ being their standard linking passage ) — but singled out for praise a comparative unknown by the name of Terry Wogan ; rejoined the Liberal Party ; took part in a shoot where in the gloaming I brought down what I thought was a woodcock but turned out to be a parrot , escaped recently from its cage a mile away ; fished for salmon in Spain where my guide was called Jesus ( and enjoyed bawling for him down the river bank ) and on the way home visited the marvellous cave paintings of Altamira and Lascaux ; proposed ite health of Prince Philip at a Variety Club luncheon and of London 's Lord Mayor at his midsummer banquet ( he was also chairman of the London Rubber Company to which I made some fruity references ) ; and for a year was resident British columnist of the American weekly magazine , Newsweek International . |
| 12 | He was retained by the king as one of his serjeants between 1287 and 1293 and is to be found acting for him in the 1287 Gloucestershire eyre and in the northern circuit eyres of 1292–3 as well as in the Common Bench and in the Exchequer . |
| 13 | Can someone who went say if the midfield started looking for him … ie played it through the defence occasionally for him to run onto ? |
| 14 | Even though caring meant postponing many of the plans Mary and Jim had for their retirement , when her father died , Mary expressed satisfaction about the time spent caring for him . |
| 15 | Some of us worried and went looking for him , then one of Alf Wood 's sons found him dead in the old pw hut , we think he died of a heart attack or so the doctor said . |
| 16 | One time , somebody went looking for him all over the place . |
| 17 | ‘ He outstrips the categories we keep invoking for him , such as ‘ doyen of the Ulster poets ’ or ‘ conscience of the planter tradition ’ . |
| 18 | The table was laid , and a roast chicken lay waiting for him to carve . |
| 19 | She kept waiting for him to do something , but he hesitated , as if he were waiting for her . |
| 20 | I kept waiting for him to turn his head , so it , get , one properly . |
| 21 | ( It is also true , however , that through misinformation and misleading press reports an alarming number of people increasingly think of him as a ‘ terrorist leader ’ ) He feels pressed by the black African leaders to the North who keep calling for him , to come and see them . |
| 22 | Mahoney was one of your boys , and nobody in his right mind would go gunning for him , unless there was a big pay-off . |
| 23 | His second reaction was gut terror that his former comrades would come looking for him . |
| 24 | A man came home late from work one night to find his wife sitting waiting for him in the living room . |
| 25 | He 's done so much good around here — I know it 's going to be inspiring working for him . ’ |
| 26 | Behind them lay the poignantly admitted longing for him to be there , so that he could ‘ have a comrade ’ . |
| 27 | When he gets you he beats you up for leaving him ; you go back and start working for him again ; then you try to get away from him ; he finds you again and you just go on like this all the time . |
| 28 | Towards the end of 1956 Eliot proposed to Valerie Fletcher , almost eight years after she had started working for him . |
| 29 | They 'd be sorry , come looking for him . |
| 30 | The teacher and the class agree that it would be exciting to have someone come looking for him . |