Example sentences of "he [verb] [verb] [pron] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has seen her for all of 30 seconds . |
| 2 | ‘ He has coached me for many years and will certainly do so again , ’ admitted Gooch . |
| 3 | Over the years , he has used it for many successful d-i-y projects . |
| 4 | Yeah see you see , hold on Patrick would you , erm go round Carl 's house tomorrow about eight o'clock and ask Carl if he wants to swap his for one of my freedom dragon 's la land ? |
| 5 | yeah , and the tomatoes were n't bright , ca n't get no more of them nectarines , when he says keep 'em for two days cos they were hard , gets after two days |
| 6 | The race was the brainchild of Chay Blythe , he 'd planned it for 4 years and raised the money for 10 million pound yachts . |
| 7 | He 'd done it again , she realised in amazement — with just a few choice words he 'd knocked her for six . |
| 8 | Hagans said he 'd known her for two years and they 'd met by appointment . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | He decided to smack her for this . |
| 11 | The argument is familiar — Lord Gordon-Walker said he had heard it for forty years — but , even more , it is a political argument . |
| 12 | He had treated her for several months using her husband as an interpreter — as though her husband were an objective witness to her depression . |
| 13 | He was devoted to the Prince , but he had served him for ten years and his wife had scarcely seen him . |
| 14 | Wordsworth had some idea of what was going on , as he had prepared himself for this second visit by reading pamphlets , and probably had a letter of introduction to Brissot ; but at first he was only sentimentally affected by the ideals of the Revolution . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | He had taken me for some kind of refugee from the Napoleonic Wars ! |
| 17 | Before he had become involved with Sien he had used her for some time as a model . |
| 18 | But there was no denying that today his wife was better than he had known her for many many months . |
| 19 | Less than a month before the Gold Cup he had produced what for many experts was his best performance ever when bouncing around Kempton Park to win the Racing Post Chase under top weight . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | alright he 's met you for five minutes but he 's come here I said this gang of children , I said the poor bugger 's not going to know what hit him I said alright if it 's just for Sally 's three I said he 's gon na be , he 's not gon na be relaxed I said I know that for a fact I said I know what it was like when I used to go and visit your people when I was |
| 23 | On the machine build that he 's given me for this year , of which that is an example . |