Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] he for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I asked him for some bread and cheese , and he went down to the kitchen . ’ |
| 2 | I asked him for more but he said that with the family allowance we had the same . |
| 3 | When I press him for more names he suddenly gets the deer-caught-in-the-headlights look , and , deciding he 's already revealed too much , replies , ‘ Ah , just people . ’ |
| 4 | I cuddled him for four hours until he died in my hands . |
| 5 | I hated him for that . |
| 6 | I owe him for that . ’ |
| 7 | I thanked him for all he had bought . |
| 8 | I usually let him out of the pram but last week I lost him for five minutes in Tesco , ’ she said . |
| 9 | Then I treated him for three days with a view of my back and my sulky face . |
| 10 | I took him for dead , |
| 11 | He 's been brought up strictly , he goes to synagogue — I respect him for that . |
| 12 | And I respect him for that . |
| 13 | ‘ I liked him for that . |
| 14 | So I had him for five hours , normally from 6 pm to 11 pm . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ I ca n't say I blame him for that . ’ |
| 16 | In retirement Leslie launched the Oswestry Festival of Village Choirs , which absorbed him for some years until underfunding brought it to an end . |
| 17 | He was offering her an out and she respected him for that . |
| 18 | And she scolded him for frightening children Adam , six , Louise , four , and two-year-old Carl . |
| 19 | Coleridge awoke , he said , retaining ‘ a distinct recollection of the whole ’ , and was eagerly committing the poem to writing when he was called out by a person on business from Porlock who detained him for more than an hour . |
| 20 | Stephane Grappelli , the renowned jazz violinist , employed English agents who booked him for certain concerts . |
| 21 | The truth was there in his eyes , and she hated him for that , too . |
| 22 | She blamed him for all this . |
| 23 | She thanked him for that as well . |
| 24 | Because Boo had not been seen for so long by Maycomb , he was turned into a scapegoat by the adults who blamed him for any thing and every thing that went wrong , and the children thought of him as a terrible monster with blood dripping from his mouth who ate squirrels . |
| 25 | The object of the rest of the company , who question him for fifteen minutes , is to establish a self-contradiction . |
| 26 | Years later , she acknowledged the debt she owed him for those early lessons in self-determination . |
| 27 | He was no more blind than you or I. Did n't you recognize him for that man we gave a ride to on the road ? |
| 28 | It was strange how she loved him for that business with Tommaso so long ago , how she had such a feeling for the intricate conventions of the old code , and saw him as a man of honour , a duellist . |
| 29 | She watched him for several moments , then looked about the large dining-room , trying to fathom the reason for his actions . |
| 30 | Bob 's abilities were recognised by the Southern League authorities , who selected him for one of their inter-League games during 1912–13 and he was awarded a Benefit by the Palace in 1914–15 , along with his half-back colleagues , Jimmy Hughes and Harry Hanger . |