Example sentences of "he [verb] [pron] [adv] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ What 's he flashing it around for , then ? ’ |
| 2 | RUBBER-faced funnyman Rowan Atkinson has admitted he plays it strictly for cash . |
| 3 | Temper defeated pity and he attacked her rabidly for , of all things , going to her Anglican church . |
| 4 | He asked me back for lunch after the Eucharist . |
| 5 | " He asked you in for a drink without asking me ? " |
| 6 | Yeah but was he bringing them out for other people as well ? |
| 7 | The following afternoon he invited her round for another meal . |
| 8 | OPERA giant Luciano Pavarotti looked a picture of massive dedication yesterday as he built himself up for his latest role . |
| 9 | When he gets you he beats you up for leaving him ; you go back and start working for him again ; then you try to get away from him ; he finds you again and you just go on like this all the time . |
| 10 | He weighed her up for a moment , his wide mouth compressed and then asked : ‘ D'ye think Isobel would come to a ball with me ? ’ |
| 11 | He is so different from the others , from Terry and Havvie ; he loves me truly for myself , which is the best thing of all , not because I am Papa 's rich daughter , the King 's friend . |
| 12 | He told us off for not taking him there |
| 13 | He studied her minutely for a long time until she felt his eyes had bored into her very skull . |
| 14 | He studied her intently for a moment , then bowed his head slightly . |
| 15 | He studied her impassively for a moment . |
| 16 | If the pieman win the toss , he receives a penny without giving a pie ; if he lose , he hands it over for nothing' ( Mayhew , London Labour and the London Poor , vol. i , 1861 ) . |
| 17 | Worse , Dr Neil was being so kind , when reason told her that no one would blame him if he turned her away for what she had done . |
| 18 | On February 1 , 1941 Yamamoto showed his plan to Rear Admiral Takijiro Onishi , Chief of Staff of the 11th Air Fleet , he turned it over for study to his most able commander , Minoru Genda . |
| 19 | " He carried off his subjects ' wives , daughters and kinswomen by force and made them his concubines ; when he had sated his own lust on them he handed them down for his soldiers to enjoy . |
| 20 | He had refused to touch what he called the Stavanger Final Insurance even when he needed the money for his fleet — why should he use it now for what was only indirectly of concern to him ? |
| 21 | When the house was finished , he hid himself away for months at a time , with only a few good friends and his beloved books and garden . |
| 22 | and cos he paid him twice for that , their sweets , and John was coming up , so , I do n't know if it was genuine , asked him and I cos I knew John was coming up |
| 23 | He praises him too for his advocacy of careful and methodical procedures based on careful consideration of individual cases . |
| 24 | So why had he invited her out for the day ? |
| 25 | He cursed himself inwardly for this sudden indisposition , which had come at the worst possible moment . |
| 26 | His position was now becoming desperate and he cursed himself again for his stupidity . |
| 27 | Billie heard the housekeeper ask Adam in the kitchen as he followed her through for a new packet of cigarettes . |
| 28 | We were wined and dined at great expense and the next time I met Tommy he thanked me profusely for assisting him on that evening . |
| 29 | Again he thanked her warmly for the meal and her hospitality , then , when she had gone , went before Shepherd and his son into the other room . |
| 30 | He addressed us now for the first time , in far more lucid Indonesian than we had ever heard from his elders . |