Example sentences of "he [verb] [to-vb] [pron] [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | She is furious that he has married beneath him , but appalled when her vicious attack on him threatens to end their relationship for ever . |
| 2 | Policeman says : He tried to dip his headlights for an oncoming car then saw horses in the road and just could n't stop in time so ploughed into them . |
| 3 | We do not know yet whether he wants to extend his visit for a short time to see friends , or become a student , or stay permanently . ’ |
| 4 | When he speaks an aside to us , in his own person , it is in verse : He continues in their prose , but when he wants to express his respect for them and offer his services , he moves up to verse : ‘ I 'll show thee the best springs ; I 'll pluck thee berries ; /I 'll fish for thee , and get thee wood enough ’ ( 160f . ) . |
| 5 | Here , I said , I think my mate 's mad but he says to offer you £1000 for your place without even seeing it . |
| 6 | I recently heard Alan Bennett talking about the humour in his plays and he said that he began to develop his ear for the ridiculous simply by listening to members of his family . |
| 7 | He now realised that he needed to redefine his criteria for book selection to include material of broader interest than merely that which would fit in with his teaching : You buy your library books with a different set of criteria than the sort you use when you are trying to choose a textbook , and I had to restrain myself and think : " Well , I would n't like this , but maybe there is somebody who would . |
| 8 | He decided to ask his bank for a £5,000 overdraft facility . |
| 9 | I was fascinated by the droplets of saliva sticking to the coarse stubby brown hair surrounding his mouth , and he had to repeat his request for my shopping list . |
| 10 | Back they came to enjoy wedded bliss at Ince for ten days , before Killigrew announced that he had to join his yeomanry for several weeks . |
| 11 | Meanwhile he continued to produce his articles for the Evening News . |
| 12 | In the spring of 1979 he moved from trainer Bobby Donato to V. J. ( ‘ Lefty ’ ) Nickerson in New York , with whom he continued to show his preference for racing on grass rather than on din . |
| 13 | He hoped to show his respect for Fisher 's advice by simultaneously recommending Donald Coggan for the see of York . |
| 14 | But he wanted to save their publication for the book he was always going to write and which was to follow ‘ line for line ’ the artistic development of his friend during those decisive years . |
| 15 | ‘ His US lawyer contacted ours and said he wanted to swop our daughter for a guarantee that he would n't be arrested ! |
| 16 | A person who distributes inflammatory material to equable recipients can argue with some plausibility that he intended to display his contempt for the views of the recipient , or was seeking to indicate in forcefully graphic terms that he held a different point of view from the one espoused by his audience . |