Example sentences of "[coord] he [verb] for [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He feels his faithful services are not valued , and he longs for death . |
| 2 | Since Jarvella instructed his subjects to recall as much as they could remember word for word , and he scored for accuracy of verbatim recall , these results suggest not only that the last-heard clause has the highest verbatim recall but also that the amount of syntactic information which is being retained about a preceding clause depends on whether or not that clause forms part of a larger linguistic unit which also includes the most recent clause . |
| 3 | I put a bullet close to his head and he dived for cover . |
| 4 | My resistance surprised him , and he shouted for help . |
| 5 | Dieter guided her to an empty chair ; she was trembling violently and he called for brandy . |
| 6 | Many larger houses were being split up into ‘ so-called flats ’ , and he called for protection for such families . |
| 7 | His R/T went u/s as they were taxying out and he called for control to stop " Jock " Calder ( his Deputy ) and tell him to get out of his aircraft and hand it over to Johnny 's crew , " Jock " overheard this plea , switched off his R/T , took-off and led the sortie , but was never forgiven . |
| 8 | He was being waltzed around by his captives and he bellowed for help but his colleagues had their own problems . |
| 9 | He could be coarse in his conversation , but he married for love , as his own bride came from an impoverished Royalist family . |
| 10 | PC Gaskell was almost lost for words — but he called for assistance and the entertainer finally got his way . |