Example sentences of "he had [verb] [prep] [pron] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was all right for Piers : he had played with her for the hell of it , while making no bones about telling her that she was little more than a convenient body . |
| 2 | On coming upstairs , he had turned to her for comfort , desperate to make love , needing to feel the growing swell of her body that was his own flesh and blood and , as always , he was moved to tears by it . |
| 3 | It had been with shame and some irritation that he had recognized in himself for the first time the nagging of jealousy . |
| 4 | He was honest enough to admit that he had to rely on me for the practical side of the business , and gave me a good rise in pay . |
| 5 | Offering the blond English boy — the one I was throwing water at now — half my lunch , and sitting there full of gratitude because he smiled , because he liked the taste of the piece of chicken dipped in cumin and saffron and he had smiled at me for the first time . |
| 6 | The primitive ceremony which came soonest to Eliot 's mind , whether in his ‘ Beating of a Drum ’ or in 1926 when he spoke of savages who ‘ believe that the ritual is performed in order to induce a fall of rain' , was rain-making , probably because he had read about it for his 1913 seminar paper . |
| 7 | It was so faint that he had to look at it for some time before he could make any sense of it . |