Example sentences of "he [vb past] [pron] [adv] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Again he thanked her warmly for the meal and her hospitality , then , when she had gone , went before Shepherd and his son into the other room . |
| 2 | He addressed us now for the first time , in far more lucid Indonesian than we had ever heard from his elders . |
| 3 | ‘ It was his first job and he locked himself away for the day with a feather and a bottle of wine , ’ remembers Sally . |
| 4 | When he screened it privately for the director of the Cannes Film Festival , he was delighted with the reaction and was duly invited to exhibit Drive , He Said at the next festival in May 1971 . |
| 5 | The centre forward , whom they nicknamed Ossie , wore his sideburns long and his shorts even longer — but at least he kept them on for the duration . |
| 6 | He held it up for the others to see and then threw it at the thin man contemptuously who automatically caught it in both hands . |