Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] for an [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ What happened , Fabia ? ’ he relentlessly pursued her for an answer . |
| 2 | Hearing on the grapevine that Island Records ' in-house Fallout Shelter studios were in need of a trainee engineer , he pestered them for an interview that afternoon and began work the next day . |
| 3 | Again , like Microsoft , WordPerfect UK would rather that you contacted them for an upgrade . |
| 4 | Carolyn knew that he was angry with her , for some reason which she could n't fathom , and that the more she pressed him for an explanation the more he clammed up over it . |
| 5 | He watched it for an hour , and it flickered once |
| 6 | Suddenly he looked tired , and there were deep furrows in his brow as his eyes scanned her for an instant . |
| 7 | I asked him for an instance of the difference between bookselling in Knightsbridge , London , and Union Street , Glasgow . |
| 8 | Once , Barry 's daughter asked him for an autograph . |
| 9 | Erm , George and I had that class shared between us , he took them for an hour a week and I did and i if there is a class that any of us had ever taken that would be unlikely to be able to write something meaningful of this kind |
| 10 | That is why I took him for an agent . |
| 11 | We took him for an X-ray . |
| 12 | In the next throne along lounged an elegant young man — summer business suit , Cal tan , thick , unlayered rug : I took him for an actor . |
| 13 | Annie came in at seven-thirty every weekday morning , bathed and fed the child and , weather permitting , took her for an outing in the large black perambulator . |
| 14 | Davide had turned up a coin , one afternoon , when he was mooning around ; it was a common enough type , the professor told him in the museum at Riba , where he took it for an opinion . |
| 15 | He lifted it , as if he were about to kiss it , laid it for an instant against his cheek , then restored it , still captive , to his knee . |
| 16 | ‘ I did it for an introduction before the films came out in Europe , ’ he says . |
| 17 | She despised him for an affair that had begun and ended thirty years before . |
| 18 | ‘ I know God originally intended me for an angel , ’ she said crossly , brushing wood shavings from her knees . |
| 19 | His father intended him for an army career , but that and a project for farming in the colonies came to nothing ; and by 1885 he was living hand to mouth in Chelsea as an illustrator and journalist . |
| 20 | Now Ebenezer Judge understood what he must have felt , as a dozen willing hands hoisted him on high , held him for an instant in mid-air , then let him down , inch by inch , until the back of his head knocked against the stone wall and the freezing water lapped over his boots . |