Example sentences of "[that] he [verb] [pron] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gombert 's linear sense — and sometimes Crecquillon 's and Lupi 's was so strong that he cared nothing for the asperities of harsh suspensions or accented passing-notes , as in this passage from his motet , ‘ Ave sanctissima Maria ’ : |
| 2 | Vortigern was so taken by her charms that he took her for his wife . |
| 3 | I saw that Mrs Fairfax approved of my correct behaviour , and I knew that he respected me for it . |
| 4 | She could ring Jamie and suggest that he write something for it . |
| 5 | Nigel told Eleanor that he despised her for making a pass at him . |
| 6 | It was a bitter irony that he condemned her for loving a man who was out of reach . |
| 7 | In the second play , Audience , Ferdinand is called in by the head maltster , played by Freddie Jones , who insists that he joins him for a drink and a chat . |
| 8 | But in the very next poem he says that he did it for a change of diet , a bout of ‘ physic ’ as it were , needed after over-indulgence : ‘ being full of your ne'er cloying sweetness , /To bitter sauces did I frame my feeding ’ ( 118 ) . |
| 9 | ‘ But I thank God that He spared me for this ! ’ |
| 10 | It is thus that he declares himself for Dunning 's sapphics , flashing out at ‘ any one who can not feel the beauty of their melody ’ ( my italics ) . |
| 11 | ‘ I was playing in a particular game and did not think I had done anything spectacular at all when I was approached by Heffernan who told me that he wanted me for the Ireland team to play Australia in the Compromise Rules series , ’ recalls McGilligan . |
| 12 | There can be no doubt that he rewrote it for Ken . |
| 13 | But Rodrigo was not like other mercenaries ; he made it clear that he required nothing for himself . |