Example sentences of "he [verb] [noun prp] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | He begged his uncle to let him meet Cathy for a walk or a ride on the moors between the Grange and Wuthering Heights , as they could not meet in either house . |
| 2 | Let him amuse the Emperor ( Napoleon III ) with evasive replies and let him annihilate Austria for ever . |
| 3 | At least now , today , she could ease his suffering , help him forget Madeleine for a little while , make him see that he could still find happiness of a kind without her . |
| 4 | She felt she could n't do it again and she was n't about to crawl back to tell Ned Clarke so and have him volunteer Glyn for the job . |
| 5 | He hugged Chrissie for a moment or two . |
| 6 | At a meeting of the Arab League in Baghdad , he attacked America for tightening its own entry policy , forcing the Jews to emigrate to Israel . |
| 7 | After the meeting he said to one of the local people that it was very unlike the Last Conference in 1913 when he attacked L.G. for 45 minutes amid great applause . |
| 8 | Management consultancy not only made him rich ( he sold Telesis for $1m and has just forked out $1.25m for a Washington house ) ; it also convinced him that America 's ludicrously wasteful health-care system was undermining the nation 's competitiveness abroad . |
| 9 | He so impressed Kolbe that when the great German chemist , A. W. von Hofmann , professor at the Royal College of Chemistry in London , visited Marburg in 1858 he recommended Griess for a position in Hofmann 's laboratory . |
| 10 | In his letter he asked Modi for his name , date , and place of birth for the catalogue and for press publicity . |
| 11 | Minton , with teasing flattery , referred to his new friend , six years his junior , as his ‘ property consultant ’ , for he asked Goff for advice when he began thinking and talking about moving . |
| 12 | He asked Stan for a job but he would n't give him one |
| 13 | He asked Sarah for the photo and he was doing his usual stuff , you know , hand on heart . |
| 14 | In broad Scots he asked Selkirk for his authority , the soldier flourished a piece of parchment and told him to hurry . |
| 15 | Still calm , he asked Schiphol for an emergency landing . |
| 16 | I would class him as one of the promising youngsters ( he is only about 21 and on the verge of the Norway team ) Remember Standli is Wilko 's ‘ most exciting ’ signing since he got Hirst for Sheff Wed . |
| 17 | He invited Lila for a night out on the town . |
| 18 | In his next letter , on his feet again , he thanks Theo for the enclosed 100 francs . |
| 19 | In similarly insincere terms he thanks Duncan for the honours he has received from him : These speeches are subtly calculated by Shakespeare , for their insincerity is obvious to us ( the affected metaphors , the flabby repetitions ) but not to the recipients . |
| 20 | He fled Britain for a time to escape debts . |
| 21 | Now in January 1979 , as he fled Teheran for the second time in his life , the Shah had intended to fly on to America after just a few day in Egypt . |
| 22 | He captained Surrey for five seasons from 1952 to 1956 , winning the County Championship in each — a record . |
| 23 | Aunshuman Gaekwad , 39 , who played in 40 Tests for India between 1974–75 and 1948–85 , has retired after a 24-year career during which he captained Baroda for 18 consecutive seasons . |
| 24 | On May 25 he visited Kiev for talks with his Ukrainian counterpart , Vitold Fokin . |
| 25 | Here he was impressed by America 's industrial progress and in 1862 he visited London for its World Exhibition and to see the museums of South Kensington . |
| 26 | On the king 's behalf in 1276 he urged Llewellyn , Lord of Snowdonia , to acknowledge Edward as his feudal lord , and in February 1277 he excommunicated Llewellyn for refusing an offer of mediation . |
| 27 | He studied Nuadu for a moment . |
| 28 | He condemned Crilly for his hash , and once went so far as to yank a steaming thick spliff from Crilly 's hand and toss it down the lighthouse cliff . |
| 29 | He blames MacDonald for ruining his ‘ life 's work ’ . |
| 30 | He blames Thompson for this . |