Example sentences of "he [verb] [pron] [adv] for [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The following afternoon he invited her round for another meal . |
| 2 | and cos he paid him twice for that , their sweets , and John was coming up , so , I do n't know if it was genuine , asked him and I cos I knew John was coming up |
| 3 | He cursed himself inwardly for this sudden indisposition , which had come at the worst possible moment . |
| 4 | He examined her objectively for several minutes . |
| 5 | He took me down for many terrible half-hours beneath the floorboards , beneath the joists , with cord or cable in his questing hand ; the platonic darkness of this underworld became a figure for our nightlife , candle-lit , torchbeam-pierced ; our old existence I came to picture as a boundless cathedral of light . |
| 6 | A Sunday newspaper had once revealed that he 'd wanted to marry a feminist and she 'd run off with a lesbian , which was why he had it in for both . |
| 7 | But his arms reached to enfold her , drawing her against his chest , where he held her closely for several long moments . |