Example sentences of "he [verb] [pers pn] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He used to listen to American Football on the American Forces Network and was so enthused with it that he wrote to the American Embassy , who invited him to visit them for the day . |
| 2 | She wrote that she was dying of a fever , and asked him to visit her for the first and last time . |
| 3 | True , the £1,000 belongs to the husband at law — there is no denying it ; but Equity will compel him to apply it for the wife 's benefit . |
| 4 | I found him cursing her for the border . |
| 5 | … I can hear but never see him telling me for the tenth or hundredth time the story of the Wiltshire moonrakers … and many another comic tale or rhyme . |
| 6 | He is carrying the map the class have made , which his " friend " has delivered ; he thanks them for the excellent job they have done . |
| 7 | He thanks you for the toy soldiers you left behind for him but wishes The General was here to organise them in fighting order . |
| 8 | Mutely he blessed her for the information and , after quickly slaking his appetite , he was drawn — as if he had no will of his own — to the pothouse , where he picked up Joanna , went out with her into the fields , and made love with a sweating savagery which seemed to satisfy even her and delivered him of a madness which had gathered like an abscess . |
| 9 | But he dismissed them for the time being , having more important matters to be dealt with . |
| 10 | And he entered me for the scholarship , , and er , I won . |
| 11 | This back parlour , Hope thought , as he entered it for the third time that day , is like a little theatre : Act I , Colonel Moore ; Act II , Amaryllis ; Act III |
| 12 | Oh yes , but he wants them for the whole of the year you see , which is impossible . |
| 13 | He buggered me for the first time that night , reaching round and putting his hand over my mouth , tearing me in two . |
| 14 | Then he ignored her for the rest of the evening . |
| 15 | ‘ He blames him for the press not being here , ’ Celia said . |
| 16 | Just then he noticed me for the first time . |
| 17 | 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 ) . |
| 18 | ‘ Johnny rang me and he said my photograph was awfully good and could he use it for the front cover of Backward Glances , ’ Mr Winner tells me . |
| 19 | The co-existence of opposite feelings experienced by a spectator during a performance of tragedy is shared by the tragic artist himself Despite the pleasure he finds in appearances , he negates it for the higher satisfaction of their destruction . |
| 20 | He blamed her for the death of his sister . |
| 21 | So when he called you for the Comeback Special , was that something you did happily ? |
| 22 | He jailed them for the weekend , the judge . |
| 23 | He watched me for the effect of this slang . |
| 24 | He commends him for the wit and wisdom of things he has n't said . |
| 25 | She said well he took it for the glass . |
| 26 | It was Cannistraro and his colleagues who also identified the mysterious Libyan who bought the clothes in Malta to wrap around the bomb , based on a photofit picture produced by the FBI from the shopkeeper 's phenomenally detailed description of his customer ten months after he saw him for the first and only time . |
| 27 | He saw me for the first time . |
| 28 | His heart lurched as he saw her for the first time for nine years , now in her new role as a woman . |
| 29 | The cold was within his heart now , and he knew it for the heartcold of the truly bereft . |
| 30 | It poured out into the still night and Nuadu shivered , because he knew it for the evil magic of the Dark Ireland ; the ancient , malevolent enchantment of the necromancers . |