Example sentences of "[adv] he [verb] [pron] for the " in BNC.

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1 Naturally he cribbed it for the title of a pamphlet , when what I actually meant by it was some advice .
2 Tony finds several packets of banana custard that is hot and sweet ; it tastes bloody awful and neither Tony nor I like it , none the less he fights me for the last helping .
3 Mutely he blessed her for the information and , after quickly slaking his appetite , he was drawn — as if he had no will of his own — to the pothouse , where he picked up Joanna , went out with her into the fields , and made love with a sweating savagery which seemed to satisfy even her and delivered him of a madness which had gathered like an abscess .
4 She said well he took it for the glass .
5 Then he ignored her for the rest of the evening .
6 Just then he noticed me for the first time .
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