Example sentences of "he [verb] [pers pn] for [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My respects to the captain and ask him to join me for breakfast at , say , eight-thirty . |
| 2 | Presumably on the basis that it could not involve James , she had asked him to join them for supper . |
| 3 | It was fear that locked his tongue , but mercifully he mistook it for pride , so its bitterness did not poison him . |
| 4 | Kit knelt in front of Ariel and cried ; he asked her for forgiveness . |
| 5 | And always , every day , he asked me for money . |
| 6 | I can not recall an occasion when he asked me for help before . |
| 7 | He asked you for life , and you gave it to him — |
| 8 | I expect he asked you for money . |
| 9 | How I thought he could help me I do n't know , but he invited me for lunch , anyway , and he was lovely . |
| 10 | ‘ But he has you for company , ’ began Ruth . |
| 11 | Approaching the signal box he mounted the steps , the hand-rail creaking as he used it for support . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | A short time later , he photographed her for Playboy . |
| 14 | He needed a drink before he spoke to McGann , and Dowd , ever the anticipator , had already mixed him a whisky and soda , but he forsook it for fear it would loosen his tongue . |
| 15 | Was he just making polite conversation with his uninvited guest , or was he pumping her for information ? |
| 16 | Bruce , 47 , said she happily accepted the £125 he paid her for furniture , china and jewellery . |
| 17 | Born in Warsaw in 1905 , his full name was Marius Ladislas Steniatowski , but he shortened it for convenience when his parents came to England in 1921 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | It was defective and he took it for repair to the accused , who sold it . |
| 20 | Has he asked you for permission to make a statement to the House on the initiative or , has he , as he did last week when he refused to make a statement to the House on the Welsh business rate , copped out once again ? |
| 21 | Biddle 's time at the mills drew to a close in 1853 , when he advertised them for sale . |
| 22 | Mum Lynn said at their home in Faversham , Kent : ‘ We have kidded him since he bought them for school camp that he has n't taken them off . |
| 23 | So he bought it for Christmas for you no |
| 24 | ‘ Within two or three days of John Salako flying out to California for his knee operation , he had me for company on the same ward . |
| 25 | Because he had it for breakfast . |
| 26 | He does it for vanity , to get a reputation , to obtain stipends and official positions . |
| 27 | A person who picks mushrooms growing wild on any land , or who picks flowers , fruit or foliage from a plant growing wild on any land , does not ( although not in possession of the land ) , steal what he picks , unless he does it for reward or for sale or other commercial purpose . |
| 28 | When he took Nicandra 's plate away he held it for Maman to see , hoping perhaps that a little annoyance might irritate her back to liveliness . |
| 29 | Yeah , but he wanted you for slave work ! |
| 30 | He then claims these propositions for the implicit extension of legal conventions ; that is , he claims them for law on his conception and so denies any gap in the law . |