Example sentences of "he [verb] [pron] [noun sg] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But six months ago none of this would have been enough to make him invite her company for longer than was politely necessary . |
| 2 | They urged him to back their campaign for more funding and for the idea of performance related pay to be abandoned . |
| 3 | No , what he was saying was see he sold his house for two hundred and thirty thousand I think he said . |
| 4 | Adrian Gozzard , ex-Plessey , spoke for many executives responsible for recruitment in Britain 's largest companies when he argued his preference for broad-based search firms , rather than those specialising by functional discipline . |
| 5 | Lance Buckmaster 's international colossus before he became your Minister for External Security . |
| 6 | And he he got he got my hand for five seconds and then I I got I got his hand for ten something like that . |
| 7 | Prosecutor Joanna Korner said : ‘ He told a senior officer he ruined his life for 10 minutes of joy . ’ |
| 8 | He takes their word for this . |
| 9 | Speaking at a press conference at INTO headquarters , he repeated his demand for immediate consultations with teachers , to work out manageable arrangements and restore faith in the province 's education system . |
| 10 | On principle , Hurley refused to share information with the Germans and British , except when he needed their cooperation for controlled deliveries through Frankfurt and London , but , braving his disapproval , Coleman made a point of renewing his friendship with Hartmut Mayer , the German police officer whom he had met in Munich during the 1972 Olympics and who was now the BKA 's liaison officer on Cyprus . |
| 11 | ‘ He deserves our support for that . ’ |
| 12 | He saw his programme for encouraging visual education as part of a broader creative pattern to further children 's total learning . |
| 13 | He had plugged his new film , discussed his talented family , talked about his work in the theatre , and we had listened attentively while he outlined his search for spiritual enlightenment and concern about the problems in Tibet . |
| 14 | And he bought our motorbike for twelve pounds . |
| 15 | However , he couches his explanation for these differences not simply at the level of what actual language users ‘ mean ’ , that is in relation to particular cultural practice and institutions ( within which the concept of ‘ relative objectivity ’ might make some sense ) , but instead at the level of what they ‘ say ’ , that is in relation to ‘ the lexical and grammatical structure of languages ’ , at the level of ‘ language-systems ’ , which appears to assume again the notion of absolute ‘ objectivity ’ , since , as we have seen , it offers no cultural context in which to make sense of such systems . |
| 16 | The owner was thrilled at my interest and gave me a guided tour of the premises , he gave his permission for these photographs to be taken and included in our magazine . |
| 17 | He searched her face for endless moments , then his eyes filled . |
| 18 | Swinging down into the port hull , he searched his cabin for dry clothes . |
| 19 | A Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman on Oct. 10 rejected a proposal made by the Dalai Lama in a speech in the USA on Oct. 9 to return to Tibet for the first time since 1959 , and demanded that he abandon his support for Tibetan independence . |
| 20 | Although he accepts his father 's command , he delays his departure for one last meeting which Emilia , his accomplice , arranges with the reluctant Terentia . |
| 21 | Suppose that he refused his consent for corrupt motives , or in bad faith … for party-political reasons , and not in the interests of the public at large … or because he considered that the information was laid by a pressure group , of which he disapproved … |