Example sentences of "he [verb] [to-vb] [pron] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ What does he want to interview you for ? ! ’ |
| 2 | He offers to buy it for £1,000 . |
| 3 | He tried to kill me for no apparent reason . |
| 4 | Once again he has to thank him for a new book , this time Nineteen Eighty-Four ( 1949 ) ; but now he sounds cool . |
| 5 | Still he want to feed me for ever . |
| 6 | It was lovely that you came , ’ and she took his hand and raised her mouth eagerly to his as he bent to kiss her for the first time . |
| 7 | A roof rack , he wants to borrow one for Sunday , cos Susan 's coming back look , anyway she asked me and I said no we 've never had one , I do n't think we ever had , I said I 'll ask Doreen , so I asked Doreen and she said yes we have , but I 'd have to ask Leslie first , so when Dee come back I said yes she has , but do n't say anything to her cos you might not get it , but she 's not getting that . |
| 8 | Yeah see you see , hold on Patrick would you , erm go round Carl 's house tomorrow about eight o'clock and ask Carl if he wants to swap his for one of my freedom dragon 's la land ? |
| 9 | " I think he wants to write something for you , dear , " the nurse said to Martha . |
| 10 | and he wants to get it for his disability project to see if he can get |
| 11 | Ronnie Ross : ‘ At the time he came to see me for lessons , groups like The Rolling Stones were just beginning to come into vogue although he was more interested in jazz , and we 'd sit and talk about jazz and jazz musicians quite often . |
| 12 | He seemed to take it for granted that she was the one to talk to . |
| 13 | He seemed to take it for granted that everyone would do what he told them . |
| 14 | I was n't going to answer him back , even with ‘ He wanted to bring that lizard back — was he going to keep it for a pet ? ’ — not if he was going to be like that . |
| 15 | Between 1853 and 1870 CD gave upwards of 500 public readings from his own works , mostly after 1858 when he began to give them for his own profit . |
| 16 | Some connection having been made in his mind , he began to rebuke her for a belief in the reality of Noah 's Ark , which he referred to sarcastically as the Myth of the Deluge . |
| 17 | How dared he try to blame her for what had happened ? |
| 18 | If he was ill , bad luck , but why did he have to ruin everything for me ? |
| 19 | Certainly , this was the way he needed to present it for domestic consumption , for this new alliance and the concession of territory for military use by a foreign power scarcely seemed consistent with the many hours and column inches he had devoted to demonizing the western democracies and to denouncing the British " occupation " of Gibraltar . |
| 20 | ‘ He was fit to be tied when I separated from Hugh , and he seems to blame me for the whole thing . |
| 21 | He decided to wear it for the rest of his life . |
| 22 | He decided to smack her for this . |
| 23 | Probably the best measure of Paul 's capabilities is that he was an ever-present member of the side which took the Palace to the 1976 FA Cup semi-finals and of the promotion team of 1976–77 until he chose to leave us for Tampa Bay Rowdies in February 1977 . |
| 24 | I tipped the wink to a pal of mine who 's big in local government , and he managed to fix it for someone from the public health authority to write a letter full of threats and demands and legal gobbledegook . |
| 25 | No doubt about it , he meant to corner her for the evening . |
| 26 | He had to see it for himself . |
| 27 | He had to do something for her . |
| 28 | Letterman implies that he had to divorce her for her own good ; he could not bear to see so much life force confined in marriage . |
| 29 | He had to prepare them for the study of Old English ( Anglo-Saxon ) , Middle English ( that is , the language and literature of England from about 1200 until 1450 , including Chaucer ) and all the remaining periods of English literature up to the Victorian period . |
| 30 | Later , from South Africa , he wrote to thank me for this advice , but now he reciprocated by telling me , with great gentleness , that I should not go on hoping , as he himself had searched the P.O.W. lists , and Leslie 's name was not on any of them . |