Example sentences of "he [vb past] [verb] [pron] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He tried to kill me for no apparent reason . |
| 2 | It was lovely that you came , ’ and she took his hand and raised her mouth eagerly to his as he bent to kiss her for the first time . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Juliet wondered if he 'd re-stocked it for the occasion . |
| 5 | Some connection having been made in his mind , he began to rebuke her for a belief in the reality of Noah 's Ark , which he referred to sarcastically as the Myth of the Deluge . |
| 6 | He decided to wear it for the rest of his life . |
| 7 | No doubt about it , he meant to corner her for the evening . |
| 8 | If he did not initially envisage independence for black Africa , it is difficult to believe that he did envisage it for the départements of French Algeria . |
| 9 | ‘ 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | His reasons were all based on his search for Rectitudo in mind and will , as he had sought it for the past thirty years . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | He had prepared himself for the Stoics match in typical fashion the night before . |
| 14 | Whistling ‘ I 'm in the Mood for Love ’ , and rejecting the buzz of his telephone , he had prepared himself for the chase . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | But it was as if he had done it for the thrill of it . ’ |
| 18 | But it was as if he had done it for the thrill of it . ’ |
| 19 | To make his point , he had taken her for a burger , nothing more , and defied her to come on too strong about it . |
| 20 | Bert was full of praise for the quality of craftsmanship on the example which he had when they first came out ( he was one of the six guitarists on the committee involved in the design of Höfner 's ‘ Committee ’ guitar ) , and told us that he had used one for a couple of his hits — Big Beat Boogie and Sorry Robbie … |
| 21 | Previously he had blamed her for the lack of sexual satisfaction she gave him , experiencing her as semi-frigid and totally unexciting . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | His voice was sharp , yet as intimate as if he had known her for a long time . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | He had to prepare them for the study of Old English ( Anglo-Saxon ) , Middle English ( that is , the language and literature of England from about 1200 until 1450 , including Chaucer ) and all the remaining periods of English literature up to the Victorian period . |
| 26 | He had begged her for a doctor . |
| 27 | He continued to watch her for a moment , then murmured , ‘ I liked him . ’ |
| 28 | He continued to astound me for the next four years . |
| 29 | In 1985 a smooth man ’ , a ‘ sophisticated hustler ’ appeared in Washington and approached North , saying he wanted to do something for the contras . |
| 30 | He wanted to take her for a ride . |