Example sentences of "he [vb past] [pron] 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 | It was only too apparent , as Olga tore into him about the disgrace she would suffer , that , like a hippie , he cared nothing for the kind of life his parents led ; he did not share their values or ambitions . |
| 4 | Gombert 's linear sense — and sometimes Crecquillon 's and Lupi 's was so strong that he cared nothing for the asperities of harsh suspensions or accented passing-notes , as in this passage from his motet , ‘ Ave sanctissima Maria ’ : |
| 5 | Woolworth chief Geoff Mulcahy 's shares cost £374,000 — and he sold them for a £1,037,000 profit . |
| 6 | He fought it for a second , then gave in . |
| 7 | When he failed to persuade her to cancel it , he asked her for a date — and romance blossomed . |
| 8 | ‘ What 's — the matter this morning ? ’ she said , in the voice she had used when he asked her for an off-games note . |
| 9 | ‘ And there was a sailor there — submariner , I think he was — and he asked me for a date , but I said no . ’ |
| 10 | he asked me for a few slices of bread which he broke into pieces and scattered over the roof . |
| 11 | He asked me for a light and I offered him one of my Gauloises . |
| 12 | He come round and he asked me for a change of a fiver . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | He built it for a very simple reason . |
| 15 | His eyes were ice-bright , and pierced her like twin blades as he regarded her for a long moment . |
| 16 | The blue eyes narrowed as he regarded her for a moment . |
| 17 | He regarded her for a moment as though considering what she 'd told him . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | In what was seen as a policy of high personal risk , he proposed himself for the post of Prime Minister ( Ivan Silayev having resigned in September — see p. 38416 ) . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | But he dismissed them for the time being , having more important matters to be dealt with . |
| 23 | And he entered me for the scholarship , , and er , I won . |
| 24 | 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 |
| 25 | He buggered me for the first time that night , reaching round and putting his hand over my mouth , tearing me in two . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Then he ignored her for the rest of the evening . |
| 28 | He surveyed her for a moment and then switched on , as though it had been a light , the very considerable charm of his smile . |
| 29 | He studied her for a moment . |
| 30 | He studied her for a moment , noting how she had aged . |