Example sentences of "he [verb] for [pron] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He made for himself a special balance with which he could measure the exact proportions of two metals in a mixture or alloy . |
| 2 | He built for himself a house ( Larkscliff ) on the cliffs at Birchington , Kent ( 1906 ) . |
| 3 | This year he found for us a first edition of an early play by Samuel Beckett , an important book about China , and the original German text of theopera DerFreischütz , as well as other lovely things . |
| 4 | He provided for us the necessities of life — food , shelter , clothing . |
| 5 | In some forests he took for himself the profits of the minor pleas : a thirteenth-century Cumberland jury swore that if any man ‘ furtively ’ felled an oak in Inglewood Forest , then the warden 's duty was ‘ to attach his body according to the law of the forest ’ to answer before the Justice of the Forest at the Forest Eyre . |
| 6 | On April 1-2 he saw for himself the effects of internecine war when he toured the Natal townships ; on April 5 , after his meeting with de Klerk , it was announced that talks would take place in the near future about the remaining obstacles to full negotiations . |
| 7 | As a son of William , the former secretary of the BDDA , he was familiar with the deaf world from childhood and , as frequently happens with hearing children of deaf parents , he chose for himself a career connected with deafness . |
| 8 | The greater the longing he felt for her the more sensible he had tried to be . |
| 9 | He declined the cigarette , he lit for himself a small cigar . |
| 10 | He waited for me every year — we came back for about six years , until I was ready to be sent to finishing school . |
| 11 | They were shown round by a Père Obein whose calm wisdom and urbanity so impressed them that he remained for them a touchstone of good sense . |