Example sentences of "he [verb] [pron] [adv] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " He asked you in for a drink without asking me ? " |
| 2 | He weighed her up for a moment , his wide mouth compressed and then asked : ‘ D'ye think Isobel would come to a ball with me ? ’ |
| 3 | He studied her minutely for a long time until she felt his eyes had bored into her very skull . |
| 4 | He studied her intently for a moment , then bowed his head slightly . |
| 5 | He studied her impassively for a moment . |
| 6 | So why had he invited her out for the day ? |
| 7 | Billie heard the housekeeper ask Adam in the kitchen as he followed her through for a new packet of cigarettes . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | He addressed us now for the first time , in far more lucid Indonesian than we had ever heard from his elders . |
| 10 | ‘ It was his first job and he locked himself away for the day with a feather and a bottle of wine , ’ remembers Sally . |
| 11 | He watched her closely for a long time but there was no further flicker of consciousness . |
| 12 | He watched her guardedly for a moment , then he said , ‘ Do I take it that you 're referring to Elise ? ’ |
| 13 | Did n't want to go home , and he took them both for a walk . |
| 14 | A couple of months ago he took her out for a meal and she tried to kiss him . |
| 15 | He saw it only for a second . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | For sixthly he invites himself round for a drink one evening . |
| 19 | He had lost face , he had lost honour , yet now he flirted with the thought of murder , which was beyond all honour , and he did it solely for a woman . |
| 20 | I tell you what amazes me , Mary , he takes , he can take a conference , when they have a big do he puts them there for the , you know for their dinner or whatever they |
| 21 | He left them there for a few days , checking that the wasps still kept returning to their burrows . |
| 22 | He held her away for a second , eyeing her curiously . |
| 23 | He held her tight for a moment , then released her reluctantly . |
| 24 | 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 . |