Example sentences of "he [vb past] [pers pn] for [adj] " in BNC.

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1 So he sold them for four X.
2 He asked me for 50,000 francs for Félix .
3 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
4 What would you say , he got it for more .
5 Without being aware of it , he punished her for this deeply felt bodily rejection in bed by withdrawing his body out of bed .
6 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 .
7 He studied her for several seconds , as if baffled .
8 He studied it for some time and then said : ‘ That 's bad , I 'm afraid .
9 ‘ But I thank God that He spared me for this ! ’
10 He hated me for that .
11 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 .
12 he enjoyed it for forty years .
13 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 .
14 She kinda thought of him as a poet , and I think he loved her for that .
15 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 .
16 Taking into account Ferguson 's health , age , and the fact he had not previously been in prison , he jailed him for 18 months .
17 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 .
18 He watched them for two minutes , but they did not move .
19 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 .
20 he bought them for three quid ?
21 Yeah/ Which is highly improbable but he bought them for three pounds
22 He bought it for that erm er her
23 I mean , he bought it for next to nowt .
24 He bought it for twenty five quid .
25 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 . ’
26 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
27 He left her for dead .
28 His membership of the Conservative party was to prove of short duration and he left it for good just before the government of 1931 was formed .
29 Rewarded with a seat on the Privy Council , he held it for less than a month , dying of apoplexy 20 July 1675 .
30 At eighteen he 'd married a beautiful young girl of seventeen , who died when he was twenty-five , and he mourned her for ten years .
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