Example sentences of "he [verb] them for [art] " 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 Woolworth chief Geoff Mulcahy 's shares cost £374,000 — and he sold them for a £1,037,000 profit .
3 He is carrying the map the class have made , which his " friend " has delivered ; he thanks them for the excellent job they have done .
4 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 .
5 But he dismissed them for the time being , having more important matters to be dealt with .
6 Oh yes , but he wants them for the whole of the year you see , which is impossible .
7 Hearing on the grapevine that Island Records ' in-house Fallout Shelter studios were in need of a trainee engineer , he pestered them for an interview that afternoon and began work the next day .
8 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 ) .
9 Only once did Kinnock appear out of his separate cabin in the leader 's aircraft in order to talk to reporters , and that was when he thanked them for a birthday card .
10 He takes them for a walk on Hampstead Heath .
11 He jailed them for the weekend , the judge .
12 He took them for a test drive and then Mrs Lomax drove , a little jerkily until she got more used to the Glory .
13 He took them for a stroll along the banks of the stream .
14 Erm , George and I had that class shared between us , he took them for an hour a week and I did and i if there is a class that any of us had ever taken that would be unlikely to be able to write something meaningful of this kind
15 Steve Astington says he was a rock climber and then moved over to marathons … this is his thirteenth … you have to put a lot of training in … he does them for the enjoyment it takes him away from life and all the stresses
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