Example sentences of "he [vb past] [pron] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 ’ : |
| 3 | 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 ) . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | But he dismissed them for the time being , having more important matters to be dealt with . |
| 6 | And he entered me for the scholarship , , and er , I won . |
| 7 | 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 |
| 8 | He buggered me for the first time that night , reaching round and putting his hand over my mouth , tearing me in two . |
| 9 | Then he ignored her for the rest of the evening . |
| 10 | Just then he noticed me for the first time . |
| 11 | Unfortunately , for example , he believed certain things which were wrong ( such as the tenets of Unitarianism ) , and he believed them for the wrong reasons ( such as the theistic proofs ) . |
| 12 | He blamed himself for the death of his friend , thinking that if he had n't used the ouija board , perhaps his friend would still be alive . |
| 13 | He blamed her for the death of his sister . |
| 14 | But even as he braced himself for the end , Robin took a remarkable last photograph of himself for his family . |
| 15 | So when he called you for the Comeback Special , was that something you did happily ? |
| 16 | He jailed them for the weekend , the judge . |
| 17 | He watched me for the effect of this slang . |
| 18 | She said well he took it for the glass . |
| 19 | It was Cannistraro and his colleagues who also identified the mysterious Libyan who bought the clothes in Malta to wrap around the bomb , based on a photofit picture produced by the FBI from the shopkeeper 's phenomenally detailed description of his customer ten months after he saw him for the first and only time . |
| 20 | He saw me for the first time . |
| 21 | His heart lurched as he saw her for the first time for nine years , now in her new role as a woman . |
| 22 | The cold was within his heart now , and he knew it for the heartcold of the truly bereft . |
| 23 | It poured out into the still night and Nuadu shivered , because he knew it for the evil magic of the Dark Ireland ; the ancient , malevolent enchantment of the necromancers . |
| 24 | Instead of the authorised prayer , he recited one for the dead . |
| 25 | I 'm sure he meant it for the best — I always told you , he means well — but I have to admit , he 's not an easy man to talk to . |
| 26 | He bought it for the Astra . |
| 27 | ‘ I expect he did it for the insurance , ’ Dangerfield said . |
| 28 | No wonder Edward , in order to protect suitors from ecclesiastical censures or reprisals , made available a new form of the writ which was issued ‘ on behalf of many ’ — ex relatu plurium — in which he substituted himself for the unnamed petitioner or petitioners ; this form of the writ enjoyed wider popularity after the Council of Reading . |
| 29 | Jack found a piece of driftwood , its gnarled form worn totally smooth by the action of the waves , and they decided it would look wonderful in his barn hung on the brickwork chimney-breast , so he carried it for the rest of the morning until they returned to their little camp at lunchtime . |
| 30 | He said nothing for the moment . |