Example sentences of "[coord] he [verb] [pron] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He fined me for being late and he fined me for being overweight . |
| 2 | ‘ He fined me for being late and he fined me for being overweight . |
| 3 | And he hates me for giving in to them , and for seeing how he 's shrunk . |
| 4 | He was pleased with the result and wanted to use it for something for himself and he adapted it for designing colour patterns for Sandra to knit on her machine . |
| 5 | ‘ We had forms to fill in , and he touched us for fags into the bargain , and we had to get water from the well . ’ |
| 6 | And it eventually gestated out , and he wrote it for his Sunday school , and his church organist , Lewis Redner was asked to provide the music , and this is the music which Redner provided |
| 7 | yesterday right in the park and he hugged me for about ten years . |
| 8 | The cold was within his heart now , and he knew it for the heartcold of the truly bereft . |
| 9 | He reminded them of all the things that he 'd said and done and he prepared them for their mission in the world . |
| 10 | She stirred against him , and he mistook it for something like the small movements of a child asleep , and smiled down at her through the slow current of perfume rising from her black , turmoiled hair ; but she was awake and brought her head up , drawing away from him a little , looking at him , so that he had to hide his smile quickly , because it was n't something he had meant her to see . |
| 11 | He tells us that he ‘ spent months researching ’ ( citations from his letter , The Art Newspaper No. 22 , October 1992 , p.3 ) the texts which he uses in his work at the Neue Galerie at Kassel and he criticises me for ‘ forgetting ’ these texts which took him so long to research , even though they are clearly mentioned in the second , fourth and fifth paragraphs of my article which comprises only seven paragraphs . |
| 12 | His membership of the Conservative party was to prove of short duration and he left it for good just before the government of 1931 was formed . |
| 13 | Woolworth chief Geoff Mulcahy 's shares cost £374,000 — and he sold them for a £1,037,000 profit . |
| 14 | If a lettuce cost the retailer 10p and he sold it for 15p , what was the mark up in cash terms ? |
| 15 | And he does his for a tenner . |
| 16 | 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 ) . |
| 17 | ‘ And there was a sailor there — submariner , I think he was — and he asked me for a date , but I said no . ’ |
| 18 | He come round and he asked me for a change of a fiver . |
| 19 | I expect he is going to die in prison and he deserves it for what he has done . ’ |
| 20 | W. C. T. had been busy in other ways too , fathering a series of children ; three at least were to die young , and he took them for burial to his cousins , Baptist Chapel at Worship Street , Shoreditch . |
| 21 | It was defective and he took it for repair to the accused , who sold it . |
| 22 | A solitary tear escaped his eye , and he cursed himself for it . |
| 23 | ‘ 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 . |
| 24 | Unless Bill 's gone to the shop and he brings them for her . |
| 25 | But instead he was attracted to men , and he crucified himself for it . ’ |
| 26 | And he entered me for the scholarship , , and er , I won . |
| 27 | And he hailed it for providing an ideal environment in which individualism can flourish . |
| 28 | Cross soon secured his place in the Palace line-up and he held it for a long time , but his partnership with Jack Little for three seasons was a much-admired feature of the Palace defence . |
| 29 | She took it , and he lit it for her . |
| 30 | Bishop O'Brien made us feel that we were a very important part of the world-wide Church and he encouraged us for our future as adult members of the Catholic Church . |