Example sentences of "[pron] [noun sg] [verb] for [pers pn] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We were glad of the good fish my father brought for us to celebrate with . |
| 2 | To Lan 's astonishment her father signalled for her to approach the altar next ; as she was the youngest she had expected to go last , but her father was clearly singling Kim out for special treatment by allowing her to precede him . |
| 3 | He did n't sound in the least sorry , and she held her breath waiting for him to continue . |
| 4 | Her brother waited for her to collect herself . |
| 5 | Its timetable calls for it to have its requirements back to UI by next July . |
| 6 | His real interests , however , increasingly came to lie in science and eventually his father paid for him to attend University College London , where he studied chemistry . |
| 7 | She took to following him in her car , being willing to sit for hours outside his house waiting for him to come out and then trailing and following him until he came home again . |
| 8 | ‘ Your father arranged for her to stay in Kinsai . |