Example sentences of "he [vb past] [pers pn] for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | he asked me for a few slices of bread which he broke into pieces and scattered over the roof . |
| 2 | His eyes were ice-bright , and pierced her like twin blades as he regarded her for a long moment . |
| 3 | He played a diabolical second shot and he must have finished all of 20 yards from the hole , but he sank it for a 3 . |
| 4 | This back parlour , Hope thought , as he entered it for the third time that day , is like a little theatre : Act I , Colonel Moore ; Act II , Amaryllis ; Act III |
| 5 | He buggered me for the first time that night , reaching round and putting his hand over my mouth , tearing me in two . |
| 6 | He studied her for a long time , then reached out and touched a wet strand of her hair . |
| 7 | Just then he noticed me for the first time . |
| 8 | Unfortunately , for example , he believed certain things which were wrong ( such as the tenets of Unitarianism ) , and he believed them for the wrong reasons ( such as the theistic proofs ) . |
| 9 | He examined it for a few moments , then realised Tock was standing beside him with a can of oil . |
| 10 | Jobless Shepherd told a court his labrador Flash was savaged by a pit bull terrier as he took her for a late-night walk after drinking at a local club . |
| 11 | It was Cannistraro and his colleagues who also identified the mysterious Libyan who bought the clothes in Malta to wrap around the bomb , based on a photofit picture produced by the FBI from the shopkeeper 's phenomenally detailed description of his customer ten months after he saw him for the first and only time . |
| 12 | He saw me for the first time . |
| 13 | His heart lurched as he saw her for the first time for nine years , now in her new role as a woman . |
| 14 | He was glad to see him , for he knew him for a tough , sturdy fellow , who was considered certain to get into the Owsla as soon as he reached full weight . |
| 15 | It poured out into the still night and Nuadu shivered , because he knew it for the evil magic of the Dark Ireland ; the ancient , malevolent enchantment of the necromancers . |
| 16 | I 'm sure he meant it for the best — I always told you , he means well — but I have to admit , he 's not an easy man to talk to . |
| 17 | So he wanted more life cover , but he obviously on his old plan could n't sustain that to the same period of time , so he had it for a shorter period of time , the ten years , and when it dropped , he dropped down again . |
| 18 | As he said it for the first time a smile flickered across his face , and in that instant his features were totally transformed . |
| 19 | He wrote it for the young men who were dying in the war , but the words may offer a little comfort . |
| 20 | Recently deserted by her husband Cruncher ( ‘ He left me for a wee young thing of 58 ’ ) she 's found it hard enough to make ends meet in the past . |
| 21 | He left us for a glamorous Frenchwoman and he never even sent me a card in all that time . ’ |
| 22 | Cross soon secured his place in the Palace line-up and he held it for a long time , but his partnership with Jack Little for three seasons was a much-admired feature of the Palace defence . |
| 23 | In Peart , the more authoritative case , the accused received a car from the victim when he had told him he wanted it for a certain journey . |