Example sentences of "he [verb] [vb pp] [pers pn] for [art] " in BNC.

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1 But he has forsaken them for the moment , at least in his current Emmerich show , ‘ Some Very Recent Paintings ’ ( opening 14 January ) .
2 He went up , and it 's first time he 'd seen her for a while and she said something about , oh he was supposed to have something but he got to hear this well it 's got nothing to do with all the others .
3 Juliet wondered if he 'd re-stocked it for the occasion .
4 ‘ I have a proposition for you , ’ he said to Burkett and as he said it he weighed up his man as if he had met him for the first time .
5 He had asked me for a photograph of myself when I was young and I had told him to go around and get it from Mandy .
6 His reasons were all based on his search for Rectitudo in mind and will , as he had sought it for the past thirty years .
7 He had mistaken it for an ashtray and I watched from the back seat as he painstakingly flicked his ash on to the small pile of dead matches and cigarette ends that he 'd accumulated in the bowl of the vent .
8 Not for the first time she wondered how on earth her father had persuaded the children to call him ‘ Gamps ’ and decided that he had done it for the sole purpose of driving her mad .
9 Maurin interjected that he had done it for the best , that he suspected she would spread silly gossip and it was sensible to keep her away from the English journalist .
10 But it was as if he had done it for the thrill of it . ’
11 But it was as if he had done it for the thrill of it . ’
12 To make his point , he had taken her for a burger , nothing more , and defied her to come on too strong about it .
13 Previously he had blamed her for the lack of sexual satisfaction she gave him , experiencing her as semi-frigid and totally unexciting .
14 He had been found asleep on the floor of a taxi outside a night club and claimed he had hired it for the evening as his bedroom .
15 His voice was sharp , yet as intimate as if he had known her for a long time .
16 One thing she had to say about Dad , at least he had prepped her for the world she was going to have to live in .
17 He had begged her for a doctor .
18 That he 's owed me for a year !
19 He 's had it for a week .
20 No , he 's had it for a long time .
21 ‘ Perhaps he 's taken them for a holiday ? ’
22 He 's picked me for the Jack Gannon , and I 'm four months under age , and he says Hermia 's really improved . ’
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