Example sentences of "he [verb] for [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 'E 's keen on 'er , and she seemed ti be fond of 'im till 'e asked for 'er in wedlock . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ And he has all the support I can give him to go for it next year . ’ |
| 3 | He declines and asks whether I want him to wait for me . |
| 4 | Quite as remarkable as the original display of ill temper was the graciousness which prompted him to apologize for it . |
| 5 | A week later the labour master was convicted ; he was fined ten shillings and costs , although the solicitor who was defending him asked for him to be sentenced to a term of imprisonment ( in which case , an appeal could have been lodged ) . |
| 6 | Article 20 of the Brussels Convention provides that where a defendant domiciled in one Contracting State is sued in a court of another Contracting State the court shall stay the proceedings so long as it is not shown that the defendant has been able to receive the document instituting the proceedings or an equivalent document in sufficient time to enable him to arrange for his defence , or that all necessary steps have been taken to this end . |
| 7 | A default judgment must , however , not be recognised if the defendant was not duly served with the document which instituted the proceedings or with an equivalent document in sufficient time to enable him to arrange for his defence . |
| 8 | ‘ It sounds reasonable , tell him to arrange for his solicitor to be here in the morning . ’ |
| 9 | This was worse — to have him apologise for something that had felt so right , so wonderful . |
| 10 | Erm again i er the old story , we ca n't get speakers on a Monday and better luck in last year this year , sorry er I was able to get Danny but there again he came very expensive erm but we brought , we had to bring him from Lancaster so er , you ca n't expect him to come for nothing . |
| 11 | ‘ I did n't want him to come for me . |
| 12 | ‘ I found Tobermory sleeping in the smoking-room , and called out to him to come for his tea . |
| 13 | He 'll either have to off the lad or get him to work for him . |
| 14 | His job at Selby , though it had none of the glamour of his former work , at least enabled him to provide for his family of two sons , Ken and Bruce , and daughters Mollie and Joyce . |
| 15 | Some twenty years later the District Judge at Kagalla found similar attitudes : ‘ It is a common occurrence for persons to see an animal being driven away under very suspicious circumstances , and yet , although perhaps living within a stone 's throw of the owner , they take no trouble to go and tell him what they have seen , and probably say nothing about it until they meet him looking for his stolen animal , three or four days afterward ; of course then the recovery is hopeless ! ’ |
| 16 | That was probably true , she realised , scrambling away from him to reach for her discarded clothes . |
| 17 | Sutherland does n't resent people considering him mature for his age . |
| 18 | I could n't face sitting at the station waiting for him to turn up : I was damn well going to make him wait for me . |
| 19 | Felicity merely shrugged and looked up at Harold , as if expecting him to answer for her . |
| 20 | But it was I mean you have to admit erm and I 'm I 'll bring Mr Power in and let him speak for himself , but you have to admit that it from what we 've just heard , it started in nineteen seventy four , it 's been going on a long time . |
| 21 | In fact , Rabbit need n't have that belief : he might have forgotten all about his honey until Pooh 's question made him look for it . |
| 22 | She went upstairs and slung her bikini bottoms in a bag , along with her suntan oil and a towel , and ran downstairs , to find him waiting for her by the front door . |
| 23 | Yet she was not surprised to find him waiting for her outside the church , apparently absorbed in the design of an iron pineapple on the railings . |
| 24 | How she managed to find a smile for Ivo when she saw him waiting for her in the foyer , she did n't know . |
| 25 | In one week I listened to the English boy singing the praises of my dark colouring and frizzy hair , felt him kiss me on the cheek with obvious pleasure whenever I cooked a meal and when I came in from work , or when we sat watching television together , and found him waiting for me at the end of the road when I was late back for some reason . |
| 26 | For his improvising and melody line resources Joe draws from much the same scales we saw him use for his harmony . |
| 27 | We told him to look for us in the evening . |
| 28 | She heard him calling for her quietly , then loudly . |
| 29 | One of the councillors on the libraries committee took a copy of Gay News home to study so that he could n't be accused of being uninformed when the time came for him to vote for its rejection . |
| 30 | Yeah I said cos I could n't ask him to do for nothing . |