Example sentences of "he [verb] [pron] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was only too apparent , as Olga tore into him about the disgrace she would suffer , that , like a hippie , he cared nothing for the kind of life his parents led ; he did not share their values or ambitions . |
| 2 | Gombert 's linear sense — and sometimes Crecquillon 's and Lupi 's was so strong that he cared nothing for the asperities of harsh suspensions or accented passing-notes , as in this passage from his motet , ‘ Ave sanctissima Maria ’ : |
| 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 thanks you for the toy soldiers you left behind for him but wishes The General was here to organise them in fighting order . |
| 5 | In what was seen as a policy of high personal risk , he proposed himself for the post of Prime Minister ( Ivan Silayev having resigned in September — see p. 38416 ) . |
| 6 | Mutely he blessed her for the information and , after quickly slaking his appetite , he was drawn — as if he had no will of his own — to the pothouse , where he picked up Joanna , went out with her into the fields , and made love with a sweating savagery which seemed to satisfy even her and delivered him of a madness which had gathered like an abscess . |
| 7 | But he dismissed them for the time being , having more important matters to be dealt with . |
| 8 | And he entered me for the scholarship , , and er , I won . |
| 9 | This back parlour , Hope thought , as he entered it for the third time that day , is like a little theatre : Act I , Colonel Moore ; Act II , Amaryllis ; Act III |
| 10 | Oh yes , but he wants them for the whole of the year you see , which is impossible . |
| 11 | He buggered me for the first time that night , reaching round and putting his hand over my mouth , tearing me in two . |
| 12 | Then he ignored her for the rest of the evening . |
| 13 | ‘ He blames him for the press not being here , ’ Celia said . |
| 14 | He blames himself for the 35-yard rocket from Paul Gascoigne that ripped through his grasp after just five minutes . |
| 15 | Just then he noticed me for the first time . |
| 16 | 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 ) . |
| 17 | ‘ Johnny rang me and he said my photograph was awfully good and could he use it for the front cover of Backward Glances , ’ Mr Winner tells me . |
| 18 | The co-existence of opposite feelings experienced by a spectator during a performance of tragedy is shared by the tragic artist himself Despite the pleasure he finds in appearances , he negates it for the higher satisfaction of their destruction . |
| 19 | He blamed himself for the death of his friend , thinking that if he had n't used the ouija board , perhaps his friend would still be alive . |
| 20 | He blamed her for the death of his sister . |
| 21 | But even as he braced himself for the end , Robin took a remarkable last photograph of himself for his family . |
| 22 | So when he called you for the Comeback Special , was that something you did happily ? |
| 23 | He jailed them for the weekend , the judge . |
| 24 | He watched me for the effect of this slang . |
| 25 | He commends him for the wit and wisdom of things he has n't said . |
| 26 | She said well he took it for the glass . |
| 27 | It was Cannistraro and his colleagues who also identified the mysterious Libyan who bought the clothes in Malta to wrap around the bomb , based on a photofit picture produced by the FBI from the shopkeeper 's phenomenally detailed description of his customer ten months after he saw him for the first and only time . |
| 28 | He saw me for the first time . |
| 29 | His heart lurched as he saw her for the first time for nine years , now in her new role as a woman . |
| 30 | The cold was within his heart now , and he knew it for the heartcold of the truly bereft . |