Example sentences of "he [vb past] [pers pn] for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So he sold them for four X. |
| 2 | He asked me for 50,000 francs for Félix . |
| 3 | he shopped around and he said that he got er I think he says he got it for sixty pound less I think it is , yeah |
| 4 | He studied her for several seconds , as if baffled . |
| 5 | He studied it for some time and then said : ‘ That 's bad , I 'm afraid . |
| 6 | He followed it for two blocks , in the inside lane , then suddenly cut across the traffic to the centre , executed a left U-turn and returned to the Platz der Einheit . |
| 7 | he enjoyed it for forty years . |
| 8 | Former model Carol Lawson , 42 , from Park Gate , Hants , refused to hang up on her relationship with neighbour Michael Hughes after he dumped her for another woman . |
| 9 | It was a debilitating time and he felt he survived it for two reasons — a ‘ rigorous regime ’ , which included a vegetarian diet , and the devoted nursing of his widowed landlady , Sarah Lordore ( or Lardeau ) at his lodgings in Stoke Newington . |
| 10 | Taking into account Ferguson 's health , age , and the fact he had not previously been in prison , he jailed him for 18 months . |
| 11 | He watched her for several seconds before the casual motion of a hand raised to the back of her neck and run up through her long hair identified the silhouette as Judith . |
| 12 | He watched them for two minutes , but they did not move . |
| 13 | Yeah/ Which is highly improbable but he bought them for three pounds |
| 14 | he bought them for three quid ? |
| 15 | At eighteen he 'd married a beautiful young girl of seventeen , who died when he was twenty-five , and he mourned her for ten years . |
| 16 | They sat in the corner and he pumped her for any information she might have gleaned from Wickham . |