Example sentences of "[noun sg] [to-vb] for [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Kathy Rooney had to leave me one night when we were dining at the Kensington Hilton , so she took me to the porter to arrange for him to take me upstairs to my room when I was ready . |
| 2 | They are usually those days on which your employees are required by their contract to work for you . |
| 3 | And when someone indicates his willingness to work for them they naturally suspect he is a plant . |
| 4 | The advantages to be gained from effective planning and forecasting , and a company willingness to adapt to changing circumstances , stems from three main factors ; as follows : a ) The making of forecasts , and their eventual review , forces managers to think ahead , to look to the future , and to use their experience to provide for it . |
| 5 | Since the thrice-weekly visit of the ferry brought all the island 's mail and supplies , and the post office was very small , the place was crowded , and the postmistress , busily sorting through a pile of mail and newspapers , while exchanging two days ' news in Gaelic with the ferry 's master , had no glance to spare for me . |
| 6 | Philip went back to Richard 's rooms in college to wait for him on this night of undreamt-of triumph , to enjoy it with him , to talk it through . |
| 7 | I turned back to the harbour to wait for him to go away . |
| 8 | I stirred myself and went upstairs , and crawled under the duvet to wait for him . |
| 9 | The Aeschylean Titan , who , to his own cost , gives man fire and thereby civilization , has an artist 's confidence in the sufficiency of his own capacities and an artist 's readiness to suffer for it . |
| 10 | I lie and ask him to comfort M and D and Minny , and Caroline who must feel so guilty and everyone else , even the ones it would do good to suffer for me ( or for anyone else ) . |
| 11 | It had been left to a nephew of Lucy Trigg 's , also a naval man , who put it in the hands of a London estate agent to sell for him whilst he was abroad . |
| 12 | It was time to make some attempt to look for him . |
| 13 | ‘ You are calling on Moray to fight for you , ’ Groa said . |
| 14 | He then ordered a car to call for him the next morning for a similar occasion and was felled by a stroke while waiting for the lift . |
| 15 | would not produce enough revenue to pay for them . |
| 16 | And sometimes that means sending a drawing out getting a contractor to price for it rather than him doing it , er using standard books and goodness knows else like Sponds . |
| 17 | Many smaller listed companies are controlled by their directors or their family interests , making it impossible for an outsider to bid for them except by way of an agreed offer which is accepted by the controlling shareholders . |
| 18 | The process is becoming laborious and a lot of energy is being expended with little result to show for it , progress is very slow . |
| 19 | At the end of the day he employs us and if he insists , we shall have to go straight into fourth gear to prepare for it . |
| 20 | At the end of the day if he insists , we shall have to go into fourth gear to prepare for it . |
| 21 | He was an ugly mess , and he was still alive , but Anne could find no emotion to feel for him . |
| 22 | And only eight per cent of those that did had engaged a lawyer to speak for them ‘ even though , where defendants are represented , they are more likely to receive a favourable outcome . ’ |
| 23 | By the time Penry Vaughan came downstairs again she was deep in the adventures of a lady who had decided to dress as a boy to search for her lost crusading husband . |
| 24 | I could ask the girl to see for you . |
| 25 | She wondered , as she sat and waited for her boss to come for her , whether he would mention meeting Miguelito last night . |
| 26 | She knew her husband was coming that evening but , when he failed to arrive , did not even bother to send out any search-party to look for him . |
| 27 | And , if so , why did you not send Seton back to search for his master or send members of your own household to look for him ? ’ |
| 28 | They still employed enough hired and expensive help to negotiate for them , but with instructions how far they could go . |
| 29 | None the less , I shall have to cut back on public expenditure , which has for years been outgrowing our capacity to pay for it . |
| 30 | Were they really ruling huge areas of land when my family 's ambitions were for nothing grander than the next meal and the work to pay for it ? |