Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] for him [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 | He lingers over that and I wait for him to ask why I was visiting a Communist state . |
| 3 | I wait for him to come back up but he does n't . |
| 4 | But I wait for him to start it — and then I just finish it off . ’ |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ I arranged for him to come on my day off . |
| 7 | I went out after the thief , I waited for him to return , and God pity me , I killed that innocent man ! ’ |
| 8 | In the silence that followed I waited for him to continue . |
| 9 | I waited for him to go on , but Reid said nothing more and it left a moment of awkward silence between us . |
| 10 | I waited for him to finish . |
| 11 | One evening in November I waited for him to finish his day 's work . |
| 12 | I waited for him to speak . |
| 13 | I waited for him to come into my room and say hello . |
| 14 | He closed the curtains and I waited for him to come out to his car . |
| 15 | ‘ I longed for him to say ‘ Do n't do this ’ but all he would say was ‘ Wonderful ’ . |
| 16 | All through this conversation he had the impression that Frank no longer sneered ; and as he went back to Liverpool he was sure that he was more tolerant and sympathetic and ‘ was willing to grant that there was some sense in some of the things which I longed for him to share ’ . |
| 17 | Occasionally his job as a private insurance investigator allowed him this privilege but there were occasions which called for him to dress more formally . |
| 18 | She gestured for him to go with an indifferent wave of her hand . |
| 19 | Also , if you consider yourself to be faster than the pathfinder board , it is worth starting early , since as you wait for him to reach you , you could be sailing that part faster than him . |
| 20 | And she turned for him to unlace her corset . |
| 21 | Was she waiting for him to say something about the letter ? |
| 22 | Police believe they 've identified the man who arranged for him to smuggle the drug and that he 's currently carrying out his business abroad . |
| 23 | Amused query in her eyes , she indicated for him to go on . |
| 24 | She switched off the film , she waved for him to sit down . |
| 25 | Stella , before Howard leaves , will you fix for him to fly to New Canaan for a few days last spring … ? ’ |
| 26 | She waited , holding her breath , wondering whether he would really answer all the questions that had been buzzing around in her head ever since she had first met him , or whether he would skirt around the subject and depend instead on the overwhelming attraction she felt for him to talk her back into bed . |
| 27 | She had agreed to this dinner to try to find out the truth , and she must n't allow the attraction she felt for him to cloud that . |
| 28 | It 's not that I t I my friend come cos I do have her little boy now straight from school , she pays for him to have a taxi from Endrodenny down to my house and I do have him until she finishes work and she said oh coming out tomorrow ? |
| 29 | She waited for him to go on |
| 30 | She waited for him to go on . |