Example sentences of "he [verb] [pron] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was fear that locked his tongue , but mercifully he mistook it for pride , so its bitterness did not poison him . |
| 2 | If a lettuce cost the retailer 10p and he sold it for 15p , what was the mark up in cash terms ? |
| 3 | Entirely without authority he sold it for £75 to Harper , a garage proprietor who was unaware that Searle was not the owner . |
| 4 | Kit knelt in front of Ariel and cried ; he asked her for forgiveness . |
| 5 | He asked me for £100,000 to help him pay legal fees . |
| 6 | And always , every day , he asked me for money . |
| 7 | I can not recall an occasion when he asked me for help before . |
| 8 | He asked you for life , and you gave it to him — |
| 9 | I expect he asked you for money . |
| 10 | How I thought he could help me I do n't know , but he invited me for lunch , anyway , and he was lovely . |
| 11 | ‘ But he has you for company , ’ began Ruth . |
| 12 | There can be no doubt that he rewrote it for Ken . |
| 13 | So he converted his barn which was huge and he used it for recitals , put a lovely grand piano in it . |
| 14 | Approaching the signal box he mounted the steps , the hand-rail creaking as he used it for support . |
| 15 | The new Black Basalt developed by Wedgwood was fine-grained , smooth , and richer in hue , and he used it for relief plaques , busts , medallions and cameos , as well as ‘ useful wares ’ for table and fine vases . |
| 16 | ‘ He wants you for Gareth , I think . ’ |
| 17 | A short time later , he photographed her for Playboy . |
| 18 | He interviewed him for U and they passed the day together . |
| 19 | He needed a drink before he spoke to McGann , and Dowd , ever the anticipator , had already mixed him a whisky and soda , but he forsook it for fear it would loosen his tongue . |
| 20 | Was he just making polite conversation with his uninvited guest , or was he pumping her for information ? |
| 21 | Bruce , 47 , said she happily accepted the £125 he paid her for furniture , china and jewellery . |
| 22 | Later in the night , as she lay crying at his side , he bade her for God 's sake to stop snivelling , so that he might get to sleep . |
| 23 | ‘ We had forms to fill in , and he touched us for fags into the bargain , and we had to get water from the well . ’ |
| 24 | Jack Charlton gave Stewart the chance to star alongside Gazza and Peter Beardsley when he signed him for Newcastle from QPR . |
| 25 | For a fleeting moment he braced himself for confrontation , suspecting that they would want all three bags , but they left him his . |
| 26 | He examined it for blotches and blemishes , and subjected any irregularities to the most rigorous scrutiny . |
| 27 | Born in Warsaw in 1905 , his full name was Marius Ladislas Steniatowski , but he shortened it for convenience when his parents came to England in 1921 . |
| 28 | He took them for drives , showing her the extraordinary beauties of Umbria . |
| 29 | W. C. T. had been busy in other ways too , fathering a series of children ; three at least were to die young , and he took them for burial to his cousins , Baptist Chapel at Worship Street , Shoreditch . |
| 30 | It was defective and he took it for repair to the accused , who sold it . |