Example sentences of "he [verb] [pers pn] [adv prt] for [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Yeah but was he bringing them out for other people as well ?
2 The following afternoon he invited her round for another meal .
3 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 .
4 It is as if he gave them up for dead when they left Shiloh .
5 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 .
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