Example sentences of "he [adv] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Bristol students will remember him most for his teaching . |
| 2 | The Campbells steamer his mother had once taken him on for a day trip to Ilfracombe . |
| 3 | He found another vessel whose captain ( a Scot ) was prepared to sign him on for the voyage to New York . |
| 4 | ‘ You could have kept him on for two quid a week . |
| 5 | Call him on for appointments . |
| 6 | I concluded from what Heather told me that Alan had taken him on for old time 's sake . ’ |
| 7 | Julie eyed him suspiciously for a moment . |
| 8 | ‘ Then I shall get a train in the opposite direction , ’ he said , thinking that there was something sad about it , especially now that she was thanking him politely for the drinks . |
| 9 | Studying him now , dispassionately , without the emotional blindness of the aftermath of her accident , or the initial shock of finding that he was last night 's rescuer , it was like seeing him properly for the first time … |
| 10 | Ranulf was full of himself , rather peeved that his master did not thank him properly for his rescue , making sly references to his own archery . |
| 11 | ‘ He 's in a funny mood today , and I do n't feel I 've thanked him properly for his Christmas present . ’ |
| 12 | Serves him right for sucking up to them — being the Thinking Person 's Tory , and all that , eh ? |
| 13 | ‘ Serves him right for pigging out on egg and pickle sandwiches ! ’ |
| 14 | I 'm afraid I lost my temper and said if he 'd fallen foul of the IRA it bloody well served him right for supporting them . ’ |
| 15 | Serves him right for biting off more than he could chew … but then , he 's always doing that . ’ |
| 16 | Serves him right for leaving it open . |
| 17 | She could n't blame him entirely for what had happened . |
| 18 | At the last he was in front , but he was dead tired and Winter could do nothing to hold him together for the final desperate few yards to the line . |
| 19 | Cheap , but quite pretty , she thought , thanking him charmingly for his delightful gift . |
| 20 | Probably because it was a way of roping him in for the future , Malcolm invited him down to a few rehearsals . |
| 21 | When I got home , I kept him in for a while , then , ashtray at the ready , let him loose for another try . |
| 22 | But on what grounds will a teacher identify a pupil as F , and put him in for the F exam ? |
| 23 | If he was incapable and vomiting and so on , you 'd take him in for his own consideration . |
| 24 | I usually work him in for an hour , but when I 'm riding him around in the arena before the bell goes , I 'm still thinking , ‘ How on earth am I going to get this thing up the centre line ? ’ because he 's gawping at everything , but then I give him a jolly good boot and we get on with it … ’ |
| 25 | I 've put the belt in for when he 's bad and I 've sewn him in for the winter . |
| 26 | Andy Roxburgh will check on Hendry before the World Cup qualifier with Portugal and is poised to bring him in for a match Scotland must now win . |
| 27 | Christ , why had AD let him in for this ? |
| 28 | Cos they did n't smear Biff right away , and when he did n't fight back they took him in for terrorgation … |
| 29 | Another episode that gave him much reassurance was the time when Kate invited him in for tea at the Rectory . |
| 30 | And of course everyone knew all about it , just as they knew that the Mackays , poor souls , had done everything they could for the boy ever since they took him in for adoption . ’ |