Example sentences of "[vb past] he [adv] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She invited him home for a coffee and he set about trying to find out what was wrong with her washing machine . |
| 2 | She thanked him and waited while David invited him in for a cup of tea . |
| 3 | You invited him in for a glass of sherry to ask him if you could borrow his bicycle , and I came too . ’ |
| 4 | He stood there , his face awash with blood , his swollen mouth hanging open , but still conscious , still awake enough to see his younger brother 's eyes as they fixed his own and lined him up for the coup de grace . |
| 5 | So er I went down the Red Lion in Willenhall and fixed him up for a night 's dosh , did n't I , and the driver and then er I worked on , worked on and on and was able to get these er done for him to take back to fit this ship . |
| 6 | She regarded him steadily for a minute with eyes still bloodshot from crying . |
| 7 | Donna regarded him blankly for a moment , then nodded . |
| 8 | Scott regarded him impassively for a moment . |
| 9 | She regarded him thoughtfully for a moment or two . |
| 10 | The Heathfield trainer commented : ‘ Breakfast Car bashed a leg in his last race and got a bit of heat in it , so we turned him away for the rest of last season . |
| 11 | He will inundate us with charters — and all because London Transport turned him down for a job . |
| 12 | Impulses of attraction towards beautiful forms or faces troubled him frequently for the next two years at Oxford . |
| 13 | I mentally signed him up for the STBO ( Stating the B — ng Obvious ) Club . |
| 14 | Mother was surprised to see their visitor , but she thanked him again for the things he had sent when she was ill . |
| 15 | As this happened two weeks before Christmas , Sinitta hopes someone scooped him up for a Christmas gift . |
| 16 | When she came back from changing , her haircut was a boy 's , except that it had new-born-looking curls at the nape of her neck , which knocked him out for a bit . |
| 17 | Chapman became a target man in more ways than one as the Germans singled him out for a buffeting that went unpunished by Swedish referee Rune Larsson . |
| 18 | Iago rose to take his leave , but the prince called him back for a moment . |
| 19 | One of Alejandro 's sons playing back rode him off for the backhand and hit it up the field to his brother who dribbled it a few yards , then sliced it to Perdita . |
| 20 | His hands were not particularly robust , but he missed very few matches until June 1952 , when appendicitis ruled him out for the rest of the summer . |
| 21 | Woody Allen passed him over for a musical . |
| 22 | I asked him in for a break . |
| 23 | A long exile ended in 1989 when England manager Geoff Cooke , no longer able to ignore Hill 's superb form for all-conquering Bath , brought him back for the game against Fiji at Twickenham . |
| 24 | brought him there for the view , but it was impossible not to watch just the aircraft lights , perhaps macabrely hoping one would lose its grip . |
| 25 | When I got home , I kept him in for a while , then , ashtray at the ready , let him loose for another try . |
| 26 | So they kept him in for a cat instead , but Jessie wanted a , then Jessie , she could 've just love a fluffy white , so . |
| 27 | If his work kept him late for a meal , he had satirical reproaches cast upon his head by the landlady . |
| 28 | Fallon still had a bit of work to do , even then , but he had already bumped off Perrins and Hannaford with one uncompromising run and this time his strength buried the rest of the Gloucester defence and took him over for a try in the corner . |
| 29 | Next day I took him outside for a long walk in the fresh air . |
| 30 | His sports and hobbies frequently took him away for the best part of the weekend ; work also ate into parts of Saturday and Sunday . |