Example sentences of "he [vb past] [verb] [pers pn] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The race was the brainchild of Chay Blythe , he 'd planned it for 4 years and raised the money for 10 million pound yachts . |
| 2 | He 'd done it again , she realised in amazement — with just a few choice words he 'd knocked her for six . |
| 3 | Hagans said he 'd known her for two years and they 'd met by appointment . |
| 4 | Certainly , this was the way he needed to present it for domestic consumption , for this new alliance and the concession of territory for military use by a foreign power scarcely seemed consistent with the many hours and column inches he had devoted to demonizing the western democracies and to denouncing the British " occupation " of Gibraltar . |
| 5 | He decided to smack her for this . |
| 6 | The argument is familiar — Lord Gordon-Walker said he had heard it for forty years — but , even more , it is a political argument . |
| 7 | He had treated her for several months using her husband as an interpreter — as though her husband were an objective witness to her depression . |
| 8 | He was devoted to the Prince , but he had served him for ten years and his wife had scarcely seen him . |
| 9 | Of course it was not certain either that Zoser had done it or that , if he had done it , he had done it for sectarian reasons . |
| 10 | He had taken me for some kind of refugee from the Napoleonic Wars ! |
| 11 | Before he had become involved with Sien he had used her for some time as a model . |
| 12 | But there was no denying that today his wife was better than he had known her for many many months . |
| 13 | He had bought it for thirty pounds , enclosed it with a honey-coloured Cotswold stone wall , and planted a small but fine orchard , now at the height of its production . |
| 14 | 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 . |