Example sentences of "for he [conj] he [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mark Pitman says the horse has done more for him than he can ever do for it in return … he 's a good performer |
| 2 | He told the bailiff who came for him that he must shave , and suggested he stepped into his studio where on an easel he was confronted with the half finished Lazarus . |
| 3 | Moreover , he himself had loyalties of his own to preserve , and it was well for him that he should not know too much . |
| 4 | ‘ You poor thing , ’ cried Martha , and cooked meals for him that he could n't eat . |
| 5 | I found Springsteen sitting on the draining-board gazing out of the kitchen window , which I have to open for him so he can come and go as he likes . |
| 6 | If your child is not breathing , you need to breathe into the lungs for him until he can do it himself ( artificial respiration ) . |
| 7 | Louis XIV offered to revive the office of Constable of France for him if he would become a Catholic but he declined the offer ( 1661 ) . |
| 8 | The aim , of course , is to delegate decision making to a trusted and close friend or relative who the patient feels best knows him and will speak for him when he can not speak for himself . |
| 9 | Salesman George Anderson , a classmate in high school , can recall a conversation about him , when Jack told him , ‘ I saw my father yesterday ’ — as if it was an event to be noted — ‘ the poor old guy , I feel sorry for him because he ca n't help it . ’ |
| 10 | Erm no , he does help me a few things but I do all the digging for him because he ca n't bend down too much . |
| 11 | you know after he gets out from here on a temporary basis sort of thing , so that erm Christopher says he 's gon na be doing it for a year this lecturing , but it 's very nice for him because he 'll be able to contact him and Bob will help him if it 's necessary |
| 12 | Pleased , that is , until I discovered that I had forgotten to bring the tea bags — the subsequent ‘ Well , why did n't you bring them then 's , ‘ Why is it always my fault 's reminded me of the Quentin Crisp line that marriage was impossible for him because he could not have tolerated an endless succession of mornings when the first words he heard were , ‘ And another thing ’ — and that there were no birds . |
| 13 | He had not been prepared for Cheltenham the same as some horses are , because there had been a last-minute change of plan for him and he would not have been really galloped hard . |
| 14 | ‘ She desperately wanted to play the wife role and would spend an afternoon cooking a beautiful meal for him and he would arrive with an expensive bottle of wine and they 'd settle down for a cosy evening . ’ |
| 15 | The closed doors would hold it for him and he would smoke it on the way back as he had smoked that earlier one on the way down from Finchley Road . |
| 16 | I do n't know but he would n't , he would n't have it cooked aboard there , my mother used to cook it for him and I 'd stagger down in an ordinary shopping basket , in two basins there 'd be vegetables in one and his pudding and gravy in the other and I used to take that down for him and he used to come ashore and he used to then go and have it . |
| 17 | They rushed out into Regent 's Park — out of earshot — and Simon told her , yes of course he was forcing her hand , it was blackmail : he did love her so , she was the right one for him and he 'd take her tomorrow on five hundred pounds , if someone would lend them to him , and he did rather fancy himself as a married man at twenty-one . |
| 18 | He put the gun sideways in his mouth to give him two free hands and I thought about trying to grab it off him but I thought I 'd probably kill one of us and even if I did n't I was no match for him and he 'd just take it off me again . |
| 19 | ‘ Well , we always kept his room for him and he could come and go as he pleased . |
| 20 | ‘ I 've no sympathy for him and he will be dealt with under our code of discipline . ’ |
| 21 | Now at that stage my Lord Mr er telephoned Mr on the afternoon of the twenty second of October and it 's his case that he explained what had happened at the meeting of the bank to him and er asked him again , in view of the fact that was having to sell him home , if it was possible to withdraw from the contract and it is the plaintiff 's case that he pointed out to Mr er quite definitely and quite clearly on the telephone , on this day , er that without er the funding that he had required to run this business er he could only see that this was going to be potentially disastrous for him er and once again , my Lord as he said this was a fairly heated conversation and er the plaintiff was told by Mr once again that there was no way out for him and he should now concentrate all his efforts on achieving completion , er and once again we were . |