Example sentences of "he [verb] i [adv] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | He asked me back for lunch after the Eucharist . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | He took me down for many terrible half-hours beneath the floorboards , beneath the joists , with cord or cable in his questing hand ; the platonic darkness of this underworld became a figure for our nightlife , candle-lit , torchbeam-pierced ; our old existence I came to picture as a boundless cathedral of light . |
| 5 | Then he shut me out for you . |
| 6 | ‘ In fact he held me up for so long I 'm now wondering if it was a deliberate act on his part . ’ |