Example sentences of "he [verb] [pron] for [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He asked me for 50,000 francs for Félix . |
| 2 | He studied her for several seconds , as if baffled . |
| 3 | He followed it for two blocks , in the inside lane , then suddenly cut across the traffic to the centre , executed a left U-turn and returned to the Platz der Einheit . |
| 4 | He heard nothing for four months . |
| 5 | he enjoyed it for forty years . |
| 6 | It was a debilitating time and he felt he survived it for two reasons — a ‘ rigorous regime ’ , which included a vegetarian diet , and the devoted nursing of his widowed landlady , Sarah Lordore ( or Lardeau ) at his lodgings in Stoke Newington . |
| 7 | Taking into account Ferguson 's health , age , and the fact he had not previously been in prison , he jailed him for 18 months . |
| 8 | He watched her for several seconds before the casual motion of a hand raised to the back of her neck and run up through her long hair identified the silhouette as Judith . |
| 9 | He watched them for two minutes , but they did not move . |
| 10 | She 's with a boy our age — a toy boy — and though he deserts her for young girls and even beats her up — she 's such a sucker for punishment , she goes back for more . |
| 11 | Yeah/ Which is highly improbable but he bought them for three pounds |
| 12 | But he said nothing for 24 hours and later , in a panic , sent police in the opposite direction . |
| 13 | At eighteen he 'd married a beautiful young girl of seventeen , who died when he was twenty-five , and he mourned her for ten years . |