Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] for [pers pn] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean for him to ring you back and speak to you , i i he , he 's been concerned about it as well . |
| 2 | So I wait for them to put the phone down . |
| 3 | He lingers over that and I wait for him to ask why I was visiting a Communist state . |
| 4 | I wait for him to come back up but he does n't . |
| 5 | But I wait for him to start it — and then I just finish it off . ’ |
| 6 | I wait for you to do that ; then I simply walk through the main hall , my empty suitcase in my hand . |
| 7 | No , I wait for you to put it down oh dear , dear , dear , you alright now ? |
| 8 | Eventually , though , I could no longer manage him at home — he was so weak ; so I arranged for him to go into the residential home , where Miss Prescott and Mrs Whitaker did everything they possibly could to make him happy and comfortable — and succeeded . |
| 9 | ‘ I arranged for him to come on my day off . |
| 10 | " I suppose she thinks I arranged for you to come here , " he said at last . |
| 11 | I meant for you to marry me ! ’ |
| 12 | Colleagues , I ask for you to support , to support this motion . |
| 13 | I guess that 's part of it : I never really wanted anyone else to tell me what to do , though I craved for them to make my decisions easier . |
| 14 | Whether that means that we are currently re- inventing the wheel , or that the Aeronca was half-a-century ahead of its time , I leave for you to decide . |
| 15 | ‘ My philosophy disagrees with theirs in the long-term because I think for them to succeed properly , they have to subvert from within . |
| 16 | take you back in this first talk about the art of film erm to the very early days , and these are difficult I think for us to imagine because we 're so used today to sound films , of all the effects in , in the theatres , we 're used to the great stars , we 're used to the big subjects , and yet the film began in the smallest possible way , it began really as a sideshow , it began as a hobby for a group of people , sometimes they would be French , sometimes they would be British , sometimes American , the early pioneers , whose main interest was to produce a camera , which would look like a still camera and yet somehow would manage to produce a picture which moved when it was projected on a screen . |
| 17 | She shouts that if I get soaked I need n't expect sympathy , and I call for her to join me . |
| 18 | erm I voted for it to go out to consultation , but I have n't yet voted that it will be a site , and I will take the representations of everybody into consideration before I make up my mind . |
| 19 | I waited for her to say something else , but she did n't , so I asked to speak to Toby . |
| 20 | I waited for her to erupt as the ear-splitting entourage drew level . |
| 21 | I waited for her to speak of peas , but she had no need . |
| 22 | I waited for her to try to scream again , readying myself to leap upon her and bear her down . |
| 23 | I waited for her to bring up the subject of Graham 's murder because I knew she would have been very upset . |
| 24 | I went out after the thief , I waited for him to return , and God pity me , I killed that innocent man ! ’ |
| 25 | In the silence that followed I waited for him to continue . |
| 26 | I waited for him to go on , but Reid said nothing more and it left a moment of awkward silence between us . |
| 27 | I waited for him to finish . |
| 28 | One evening in November I waited for him to finish his day 's work . |
| 29 | I waited for him to speak . |
| 30 | I waited for him to come into my room and say hello . |