Example sentences of "he [verb] [pron] for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | he asked me for a few slices of bread which he broke into pieces and scattered over the roof . |
| 2 | His eyes were ice-bright , and pierced her like twin blades as he regarded her for a long moment . |
| 3 | He is carrying the map the class have made , which his " friend " has delivered ; he thanks them for the excellent job they have done . |
| 4 | He played a diabolical second shot and he must have finished all of 20 yards from the hole , but he sank it for a 3 . |
| 5 | This back parlour , Hope thought , as he entered it for the third time that day , is like a little theatre : Act I , Colonel Moore ; Act II , Amaryllis ; Act III |
| 6 | He buggered me for the first time that night , reaching round and putting his hand over my mouth , tearing me in two . |
| 7 | He studied her for a long time , then reached out and touched a wet strand of her hair . |
| 8 | He blames himself for the 35-yard rocket from Paul Gascoigne that ripped through his grasp after just five minutes . |
| 9 | Just then he noticed me for the first time . |
| 10 | Unfortunately , for example , he believed certain things which were wrong ( such as the tenets of Unitarianism ) , and he believed them for the wrong reasons ( such as the theistic proofs ) . |
| 11 | Meanwhile he readied himself for a sixteen-tooth smile . |
| 12 | ‘ Johnny rang me and he said my photograph was awfully good and could he use it for the front cover of Backward Glances , ’ Mr Winner tells me . |
| 13 | The co-existence of opposite feelings experienced by a spectator during a performance of tragedy is shared by the tragic artist himself Despite the pleasure he finds in appearances , he negates it for the higher satisfaction of their destruction . |
| 14 | He examined it for a few moments , then realised Tock was standing beside him with a can of oil . |
| 15 | Jobless Shepherd told a court his labrador Flash was savaged by a pit bull terrier as he took her for a late-night walk after drinking at a local club . |
| 16 | It was Cannistraro and his colleagues who also identified the mysterious Libyan who bought the clothes in Malta to wrap around the bomb , based on a photofit picture produced by the FBI from the shopkeeper 's phenomenally detailed description of his customer ten months after he saw him for the first and only time . |
| 17 | He saw me for the first time . |
| 18 | His heart lurched as he saw her for the first time for nine years , now in her new role as a woman . |
| 19 | He was glad to see him , for he knew him for a tough , sturdy fellow , who was considered certain to get into the Owsla as soon as he reached full weight . |
| 20 | It poured out into the still night and Nuadu shivered , because he knew it for the evil magic of the Dark Ireland ; the ancient , malevolent enchantment of the necromancers . |
| 21 | Instead of the authorised prayer , he recited one for the dead . |
| 22 | I 'm sure he meant it for the best — I always told you , he means well — but I have to admit , he 's not an easy man to talk to . |
| 23 | Only when it became totally apparent that she would never reform and was bent on self-destruction for both of them did he leave her for the younger and more stable Lauren Bacall . |
| 24 | He gathered himself for a giant leap and SPRONG ! landed right in the middle of the sleeping ducks . |
| 25 | ‘ You should know you 'll not change your father now and he means everything for the best for the whole house , ’ she argued forcibly but the strain was showing on her own drawn , anxious features . |
| 26 | No wonder Edward , in order to protect suitors from ecclesiastical censures or reprisals , made available a new form of the writ which was issued ‘ on behalf of many ’ — ex relatu plurium — in which he substituted himself for the unnamed petitioner or petitioners ; this form of the writ enjoyed wider popularity after the Council of Reading . |
| 27 | So he wanted more life cover , but he obviously on his old plan could n't sustain that to the same period of time , so he had it for a shorter period of time , the ten years , and when it dropped , he dropped down again . |
| 28 | He said nothing for a few seconds , and I sensed that I might have unsettled this policeman . |
| 29 | As he said it for the first time a smile flickered across his face , and in that instant his features were totally transformed . |
| 30 | He wrote it for the young men who were dying in the war , but the words may offer a little comfort . |