Example sentences of "[adv prt] [to-vb] for [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He dusted off a box and sat down to wait for them . |
| 2 | Paul and Nasey went in to work for you , so they got a wage from the start . ’ |
| 3 | They all come in to look for it . |
| 4 | I was just comin' down to look for you . ’ |
| 5 | Someone was always dragged in to delegate for her if the outside world called . |
| 6 | It does n't have enough money coming in to pay for it . |
| 7 | I did actually get over to work for them in 1968–70 and 1971 , but this story I am referring to was in 1967 when I was just paying a visit and was given a bed for the night in the hostel . |
| 8 | Maybe you would invite me over to testify for them . |
| 9 | The mayor-elect was then proposed and seconded before the two councillors went off to search for him . |
| 10 | THE sister of missing golf fan Keith Lockyer has been sacked after taking time off to search for him . |
| 11 | ‘ When he came out they said he 'd lost his mind so he went off to look for it and has n't been seen since . ’ |
| 12 | She 's too stuck up to look for it in the back of a cab just yet , but it 'll come to it one day when she gets a few more years on her , even the milkman wo n't be safe and she 'll be grateful . |
| 13 | Would that it were as easy as sticking your hand up to vote for it Because I have to say that I see no evidence since that motion approving the management initiative was passed of Labour and Liberal members doing any more than paying lip service . |
| 14 | You may have seen the home of your dreams and not have a penny saved up to pay for it . |
| 15 | It was such an important discovery that the Mayor and Corporation were persuaded to inspect it the following afternoon and the whole village turned out to wait for them . |
| 16 | I told Morag ( Mrs McDougall was busy over the tide tables with Ann and Megan ) then went out to wait for them . |
| 17 | ‘ He 'll come out to search for me , ’ thought Giles , ‘ and bring the neighbours too . |
| 18 | He recognized the voice of Beverley 's servant , Parry , who had become anxious about Giles 's safety , and had set out to search for him . |
| 19 | Should she venture out to search for him ? |
| 20 | Has a whole army to be sent out to search for you whenever you 're needed ? |
| 21 | Did she dare go back to look for it ? |
| 22 | When she went back to look for it , the handbag was gone and she travelled back to Dublin without it . |
| 23 | One late autumn afternoon Snowy failed to turn up for his meal , so his master went out to look for him . |
| 24 | Michael , if I 'd lost him I 'd have gone out to look for him — he died . ’ ’ |
| 25 | Again time must have passed very quickly , for Jim came out to look for him . |
| 26 | Thirteen men were missing and search parties were organised from amongst the trapped men and sent out to look for them . |
| 27 | Another group of nomes was about to set out to look for them . |
| 28 | One night , when she was in her nineties , she failed to reappear and the labourer 's wife went out to look for her : |
| 29 | That he 'd gone out to look for her on the road and across the clunch pit field , returning alone half an hour later . |
| 30 | As a citizen she was concerned that all too often social workers got an idea in their minds that ritual abuse was taking place , and then set out to look for it , The after-effects , though , were critical , according to Helen Martini . |