Example sentences of "[verb] he [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | He declines and asks whether I want him to wait for me . |
| 2 | I want him to shoot for every flag . |
| 3 | I might say ‘ Yes he s good and I want him to play for Leeds ’ . |
| 4 | One day she rashly invited him to stay for a weekend . |
| 5 | He went home on the Saturday night of his third week with someone who invited him to stay for Sunday lunch . |
| 6 | Friends invited him to apply for the Readership in Geometry at Gresham 's College , and a wealthy London merchant offered him £10,000 to take his daughter in marriage . |
| 7 | She asks him to recognize his father 's wisdom in trying to encourage him to work for a steady position and shares his anxiety about delays with Blackwoods , over the publication of The Woodland Life . |
| 8 | She went upstairs and slung her bikini bottoms in a bag , along with her suntan oil and a towel , and ran downstairs , to find him waiting for her by the front door . |
| 9 | Yet she was not surprised to find him waiting for her outside the church , apparently absorbed in the design of an iron pineapple on the railings . |
| 10 | No , whoever caught him hunting for more knew that there was more there to be found — knew it because he himself had come out as soon as he dared , to remove whatever was there to a place of greater safety . |
| 11 | He had to report to the headmaster at four o'clock , and was taken there by force by Foggerty who caught him racing for the school gates when the bell went . |
| 12 | The ‘ plot ’ has him searching for the lost chord , which is about as banal as you can get , but the contributors look interesting George Harrison , Charlie Rich , Betty Wright , John Sebastian , Rufus Thomas and Billy Swan are among them . |
| 13 | Another message — ‘ Ease his pain ’ — sends the farmer off to Boston to find a reclusive novelist ( James Earl Jones ) and a third imprecation from the skies — ‘ Go the distance ’ has him looking for another old baseballer ( Burt Lancaster ) who played just once for the New York Giants before becoming a much-loved doctor . |
| 14 | The boy lives with his aunt but his mother , who is estranged from Luke 's father , often has him to stay for a couple of days . |
| 15 | Expect him to pay for all our needs , solve all our little problems — ’ |
| 16 | Not content with Mont Blanc , last year found him searching for another challenge . |
| 17 | In one week I listened to the English boy singing the praises of my dark colouring and frizzy hair , felt him kiss me on the cheek with obvious pleasure whenever I cooked a meal and when I came in from work , or when we sat watching television together , and found him waiting for me at the end of the road when I was late back for some reason . |
| 18 | He faces , as well as an increasingly bad-tempered party , a pesky opposition noisily pressing him to push for Taiwanese independence . |
| 19 | Isay helped him dress for the banquet that evening , showing no resentment at having to double as valet as well as bodyguard . |
| 20 | I did n't know he went for them that young ! ’ |
| 21 | ‘ I expect he went for a walk after . |
| 22 | Has he gone for a fortnight or a week ? |
| 23 | Mrs S. took over from former club skipper , Colin Webley ( has he played for Leeds yet ? ) , and her slowness has already become legendary although , in fairness , she is restricted in her movements by a false hip made of Meccano . |
| 24 | Has he applied for the same thing ? |
| 25 | oh when I 've finished doing this I might Has Matthew decided what he 's going to do ? has he applied for university ? |
| 26 | How many has he got for West Ham already ? |
| 27 | The other thing we 've got ta find out about is er while we 're on the subject is what insurance has he got for skiing ? |
| 28 | Indeed , the more he thought about it , the less appetite he found he had for it . |
| 29 | After all , I do n't pay my head stallion man the kinda wage he gets for being incompetent . ’ |
| 30 | We told him to look for us in the evening . |