Example sentences of "he [vb past] [verb] [pron] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | He tried to kill me for no apparent reason . |
| 2 | He stopped buying them for her when they got married . |
| 3 | It would be a long time before he stopped despising himself for having succumbed to a purely physical attraction , and that towards a woman he despised . |
| 4 | It was lovely that you came , ’ and she took his hand and raised her mouth eagerly to his as he bent to kiss her for the first time . |
| 5 | He went up , and it 's first time he 'd seen her for a while and she said something about , oh he was supposed to have something but he got to hear this well it 's got nothing to do with all the others . |
| 6 | Juliet wondered if he 'd re-stocked it for the occasion . |
| 7 | She thought perhaps he 'd mistaken her for someone else . |
| 8 | The race was the brainchild of Chay Blythe , he 'd planned it for 4 years and raised the money for 10 million pound yachts . |
| 9 | ‘ Simon reckoned he 'd adored you for years and that he intended to be that boyfriend , and he 'd make it happen by ensuring the two of you were together as much as possible . |
| 10 | Prim and proper had always been her way , and he 'd appreciated her for it . |
| 11 | He 'd done it again , she realised in amazement — with just a few choice words he 'd knocked her for six . |
| 12 | Hagans said he 'd known her for two years and they 'd met by appointment . |
| 13 | He knew I needed the money and he knew he 'd got me for for a he 'd have got me up at six o'clock in the morning if he 'd have needed me . |
| 14 | Ronnie Ross : ‘ At the time he came to see me for lessons , groups like The Rolling Stones were just beginning to come into vogue although he was more interested in jazz , and we 'd sit and talk about jazz and jazz musicians quite often . |
| 15 | He seemed to take it for granted that she was the one to talk to . |
| 16 | He seemed to take it for granted that everyone would do what he told them . |
| 17 | Between 1853 and 1870 CD gave upwards of 500 public readings from his own works , mostly after 1858 when he began to give them for his own profit . |
| 18 | Some connection having been made in his mind , he began to rebuke her for a belief in the reality of Noah 's Ark , which he referred to sarcastically as the Myth of the Deluge . |
| 19 | Certainly , this was the way he needed to present it for domestic consumption , for this new alliance and the concession of territory for military use by a foreign power scarcely seemed consistent with the many hours and column inches he had devoted to demonizing the western democracies and to denouncing the British " occupation " of Gibraltar . |
| 20 | He decided to wear it for the rest of his life . |
| 21 | He decided to smack her for this . |
| 22 | Probably the best measure of Paul 's capabilities is that he was an ever-present member of the side which took the Palace to the 1976 FA Cup semi-finals and of the promotion team of 1976–77 until he chose to leave us for Tampa Bay Rowdies in February 1977 . |
| 23 | I tipped the wink to a pal of mine who 's big in local government , and he managed to fix it for someone from the public health authority to write a letter full of threats and demands and legal gobbledegook . |
| 24 | No doubt about it , he meant to corner her for the evening . |
| 25 | If he did not initially envisage independence for black Africa , it is difficult to believe that he did envisage it for the départements of French Algeria . |
| 26 | He had to see it for himself . |
| 27 | He had to do something for her . |
| 28 | It was n't until almost his last breath that he told her of the board beneath his bed and what was under it , assuring her he had saved it for her . |
| 29 | He had wanted her almost from the first moment , and he had loved her for nearly as long . |
| 30 | ‘ I have a proposition for you , ’ he said to Burkett and as he said it he weighed up his man as if he had met him for the first time . |