Example sentences of "and [verb] he for [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | I told him this and asked him for a prescription for a warm , dry home . |
2 | I believe she has even phoned an old school friend of mine whom she avowedly dislikes and asked him for the manuscript of a symphony we once composed together . |
3 | If there is a point to saluting the winner of a race , it is ultimately to celebrate his good fortune in being given the natural attributes to do what he does ; and to thank him for the excitement of the spectacle he provides in devoting all his concentrated effort to showing he 's the best . |
4 | The first year that they obtained a vintage of acceptable quality , he sent a dozen cases to his old régisseur to lay down , and invited him for a tasting . |
5 | " endeavour to find out a person both to answer to their expectation and those of the Town , and … to superintend and assist him for a while . " |
6 | His great-uncle took Charles under his wing and prepared him for the job ahead . |
7 | Time was the theme that fired his heart as a young student and affected him for the rest of his life . |
8 | It was exactly eleven o'clock when the nurse came to her and said , ‘ You may go and see him for a minute . ’ |
9 | I said , you may go and see him for a minute , he 's out . |
10 | He shall feel the ground give under him , if only once , he shall fall , and men shall see him fall , and know him for a man like other men . |
11 | Some novelist went up to a critic last night and thanked him for a review he wrote on a novel of his in about the year 1900 and congratulated him because he got it right . |
12 | But he would concede nothing , and in the end I gave him a dry little bow and thanked him for the tea . |
13 | She had n't told him much except that she did not like her neighbour Fireman Mosse and blamed him for the death of his wife . |
14 | Means going back in the morning and taking him for a walk |
15 | Daisy was screwing up her courage to accost Ricky and ask him for a drink after church when the Vicar launched into the final prayer about being made flesh , and she suddenly remembered the vast ox heart cooking in the oven for Ethel , which would burn dry if it was n't taken out , so she belted home . |
16 | After a time , his doctor friend had seen enough of his extremity and took him for a drink in the airport bar . |
17 | Yesterday , two Norfolk men who kidnapped a prime suspect and took him for a ride were sent to prison for five years and apparently the suspect did not even get a police caution . |
18 | She sat and rocked him for a while until he felt all right again and then went upstairs and dressed herself in a low-backed , jade green jumpsuit and gold pumps and gold hoop ear-rings , and felt exotic . |
19 | Well , can we go and ask him for an invitation ? |