Example sentences of "and he [vb past] [pers pn] 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ We had forms to fill in , and he touched us for fags into the bargain , and we had to get water from the well . ’ |
| 5 | 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 |
| 6 | yesterday right in the park and he hugged me for about ten years . |
| 7 | The cold was within his heart now , and he knew it for the heartcold of the truly bereft . |
| 8 | He reminded them of all the things that he 'd said and done and he prepared them for their mission in the world . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Woolworth chief Geoff Mulcahy 's shares cost £374,000 — and he sold them for a £1,037,000 profit . |
| 12 | If a lettuce cost the retailer 10p and he sold it for 15p , what was the mark up in cash terms ? |
| 13 | 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 ) . |
| 14 | ‘ And there was a sailor there — submariner , I think he was — and he asked me for a date , but I said no . ’ |
| 15 | He come round and he asked me for a change of a fiver . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | It was defective and he took it for repair to the accused , who sold it . |
| 18 | And he entered me for the scholarship , , and er , I won . |
| 19 | And he hailed it for providing an ideal environment in which individualism can flourish . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | She took it , and he lit it for her . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | But it was the correct question , courageous , and he admired her for it . |
| 24 | He sat with me and watched Jo Spence 's documentary on her fight against a serious illness and he admired her for her spirit and for using her work to get through her situation . |
| 25 | At eighteen he 'd married a beautiful young girl of seventeen , who died when he was twenty-five , and he mourned her for ten years . |
| 26 | Rory grimaced , remembering with more than a touch of bitterness Candy 's original theory that Adam had tried to spoil her pleasure in singing because on stage she was public property , and he wanted her for himself . |
| 27 | He must have felt it and he must have suffered afterwards from it I would imagine , but he had , he had those qualifications , he had those abilities and he used them for a . |
| 28 | The new Black Basalt developed by Wedgwood was fine-grained , smooth , and richer in hue , and he used it for relief plaques , busts , medallions and cameos , as well as ‘ useful wares ’ for table and fine vases . |
| 29 | So he converted his barn which was huge and he used it for recitals , put a lovely grand piano in it . |
| 30 | They sat in the corner and he pumped her for any information she might have gleaned from Wickham . |