Example sentences of "he [verb] [pers pn] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So he sold them for four X. |
| 2 | Anyway , he just liked the sound of it , and had n't he heard it for most of his life — until now . |
| 3 | He asked me for 50,000 francs for Félix . |
| 4 | he shopped around and he said that he got er I think he says he got it for sixty pound less I think it is , yeah |
| 5 | What would you say , he got it for more . |
| 6 | Without being aware of it , he punished her for this deeply felt bodily rejection in bed by withdrawing his body out of bed . |
| 7 | Even when he scolded them for some minor wrongdoing , he would cite the great orators like Cicero or Burke , as if he was taking part in a parliamentary debate , instead of addressing two small boys . |
| 8 | He studied her for several seconds , as if baffled . |
| 9 | He studied it for some time and then said : ‘ That 's bad , I 'm afraid . |
| 10 | Fif always seems a little surly with me , because he blames me for some trouble he had on another world . |
| 11 | ‘ But I thank God that He spared me for this ! ’ |
| 12 | He hated me for that . |
| 13 | He followed it for two blocks , in the inside lane , then suddenly cut across the traffic to the centre , executed a left U-turn and returned to the Platz der Einheit . |
| 14 | he enjoyed it for forty years . |
| 15 | Former model Carol Lawson , 42 , from Park Gate , Hants , refused to hang up on her relationship with neighbour Michael Hughes after he dumped her for another woman . |
| 16 | She kinda thought of him as a poet , and I think he loved her for that . |
| 17 | It was a debilitating time and he felt he survived it for two reasons — a ‘ rigorous regime ’ , which included a vegetarian diet , and the devoted nursing of his widowed landlady , Sarah Lordore ( or Lardeau ) at his lodgings in Stoke Newington . |
| 18 | Taking into account Ferguson 's health , age , and the fact he had not previously been in prison , he jailed him for 18 months . |
| 19 | He watched her for several seconds before the casual motion of a hand raised to the back of her neck and run up through her long hair identified the silhouette as Judith . |
| 20 | He watched them for two minutes , but they did not move . |
| 21 | BOWLER Vic Macey joked he 'd break a pal 's leg if he hit him for four at a Paignton cricket match — then DID accidentally after the game . |
| 22 | She 's with a boy our age — a toy boy — and though he deserts her for young girls and even beats her up — she 's such a sucker for punishment , she goes back for more . |
| 23 | he bought them for three quid ? |
| 24 | Yeah/ Which is highly improbable but he bought them for three pounds |
| 25 | He bought it for that erm er her |
| 26 | I mean , he bought it for next to nowt . |
| 27 | He bought it for twenty five quid . |
| 28 | That 's why he left me for some other woman — one who did n't booze and do embarrassing things , or get moody , or stupid , or passionate . ’ |
| 29 | Erm and she 's had seven youngsters and she 's brought them up and she a , on her own she 's had to bring them up cos he left her for another , another woman and erm she had the seven and she 's worked and fought hard cos she would n't ask for a darn thing and er they 're , they 're great those kids , they are , they 're a credit to her , you know , but it 's taken it out of her , she 's |
| 30 | ‘ He left her for dead . |