Example sentences of "he [vb past] [pers pn] for [art] " in BNC.
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1 | She would remind Froggy of it the next time he ragged her for a noodle . |
2 | Actress Robin Givens gave the man a bloody nose after he mistook her for a hooker while she was filming in Chicago . |
3 | Woolworth chief Geoff Mulcahy 's shares cost £374,000 — and he sold them for a £1,037,000 profit . |
4 | He fought it for a second , then gave in . |
5 | When he failed to persuade her to cancel it , he asked her for a date — and romance blossomed . |
6 | ‘ What 's — the matter this morning ? ’ she said , in the voice she had used when he asked her for an off-games note . |
7 | ‘ And there was a sailor there — submariner , I think he was — and he asked me for a date , but I said no . ’ |
8 | he asked me for a few slices of bread which he broke into pieces and scattered over the roof . |
9 | He asked me for a light and I offered him one of my Gauloises . |
10 | He come round and he asked me for a change of a fiver . |
11 | He tried it for a day , but grew bored with museums and heavy concentration , and their clumsy attempts to pick up girls ; he returned to the room during the day when they were out . |
12 | He built it for a very simple reason . |
13 | His eyes were ice-bright , and pierced her like twin blades as he regarded her for a long moment . |
14 | The blue eyes narrowed as he regarded her for a moment . |
15 | He regarded her for a moment as though considering what she 'd told him . |
16 | He played a diabolical second shot and he must have finished all of 20 yards from the hole , but he sank it for a 3 . |
17 | He must have felt it and he must have suffered afterwards from it I would imagine , but he had , he had those qualifications , he had those abilities and he used them for a . |
18 | Mutely he blessed her for the information and , after quickly slaking his appetite , he was drawn — as if he had no will of his own — to the pothouse , where he picked up Joanna , went out with her into the fields , and made love with a sweating savagery which seemed to satisfy even her and delivered him of a madness which had gathered like an abscess . |
19 | But he dismissed them for the time being , having more important matters to be dealt with . |
20 | And he entered me for the scholarship , , and er , I won . |
21 | This back parlour , Hope thought , as he entered it for the third time that day , is like a little theatre : Act I , Colonel Moore ; Act II , Amaryllis ; Act III |
22 | He buggered me for the first time that night , reaching round and putting his hand over my mouth , tearing me in two . |
23 | Hearing on the grapevine that Island Records ' in-house Fallout Shelter studios were in need of a trainee engineer , he pestered them for an interview that afternoon and began work the next day . |
24 | Then he ignored her for the rest of the evening . |
25 | He surveyed her for a moment and then switched on , as though it had been a light , the very considerable charm of his smile . |
26 | He studied her for a moment . |
27 | He studied her for a moment , noting how she had aged . |
28 | He studied her for a moment , and she took in his steel-grey , twill-weave trousers and ivory shirt of raw silk . |
29 | Frowning , he studied her for a moment , then , with an impatient curse , yanked the ribbon away and unwound her braid . |
30 | He studied her for a long time , then reached out and touched a wet strand of her hair . |