Example sentences of "he [vb past] [pers pn] for the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mutely he blessed her for the information and , after quickly slaking his appetite , he was drawn — as if he had no will of his own — to the pothouse , where he picked up Joanna , went out with her into the fields , and made love with a sweating savagery which seemed to satisfy even her and delivered him of a madness which had gathered like an abscess . |
| 2 | But he dismissed them for the time being , having more important matters to be dealt with . |
| 3 | And he entered me for the scholarship , , and er , I won . |
| 4 | Then he ignored her for the rest of the evening . |
| 5 | He blamed her for the death of his sister . |
| 6 | So when he called you for the Comeback Special , was that something you did happily ? |
| 7 | He jailed them for the weekend , the judge . |
| 8 | He watched me for the effect of this slang . |
| 9 | She said well he took it for the glass . |
| 10 | The cold was within his heart now , and he knew it for the heartcold of the truly bereft . |
| 11 | He bought it for the Astra . |
| 12 | ‘ I expect he did it for the insurance , ’ Dangerfield said . |
| 13 | Jack found a piece of driftwood , its gnarled form worn totally smooth by the action of the waves , and they decided it would look wonderful in his barn hung on the brickwork chimney-breast , so he carried it for the rest of the morning until they returned to their little camp at lunchtime . |
| 14 | Naturally he cribbed it for the title of a pamphlet , when what I actually meant by it was some advice . |
| 15 | ‘ I was playing in a particular game and did not think I had done anything spectacular at all when I was approached by Heffernan who told me that he wanted me for the Ireland team to play Australia in the Compromise Rules series , ’ recalls McGilligan . |
| 16 | He valued it for the beauty of some of its contents , for the dignity of others , and the curiosity of all . |