Example sentences of "he [vb past] [verb] [pron] for [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He decided to smack her for this . |
| 2 | He had treated her for several months using her husband as an interpreter — as though her husband were an objective witness to her depression . |
| 3 | Wordsworth had some idea of what was going on , as he had prepared himself for this second visit by reading pamphlets , and probably had a letter of introduction to Brissot ; but at first he was only sentimentally affected by the ideals of the Revolution . |
| 4 | He had taken me for some kind of refugee from the Napoleonic Wars ! |
| 5 | Before he had become involved with Sien he had used her for some time as a model . |
| 6 | But there was no denying that today his wife was better than he had known her for many many months . |
| 7 | Less than a month before the Gold Cup he had produced what for many experts was his best performance ever when bouncing around Kempton Park to win the Racing Post Chase under top weight . |
| 8 | Later , from South Africa , he wrote to thank me for this advice , but now he reciprocated by telling me , with great gentleness , that I should not go on hoping , as he himself had searched the P.O.W. lists , and Leslie 's name was not on any of them . |