Example sentences of "he [to-vb] [pron] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | I debated whether to call on him to kill him for his slanders before I came here to try to see her , and ask her to have me back — if you think I would make her a suitable husband , that is . |
| 2 | The pub they used to have was patronized by shooting parties in the grouse season and one big businessman was so impressed by Grandad that he offered to take him back with him to train him for a position in his firm . |
| 3 | He used to listen to American Football on the American Forces Network and was so enthused with it that he wrote to the American Embassy , who invited him to visit them for the day . |
| 4 | She wrote that she was dying of a fever , and asked him to visit her for the first and last time . |
| 5 | I understood him to reproach us for being slow in commissioning the fourth vessel . |
| 6 | True , the £1,000 belongs to the husband at law — there is no denying it ; but Equity will compel him to apply it for the wife 's benefit . |
| 7 | Everyone in the castle where he lives had become totally reliant on him to do everything for them , so the loss of the magic is somewhat disastrous . |
| 8 | what time shall I er get him to do it for ? |
| 9 | His herd numbered up to 200 head , including working bullocks used on the estates until local prejudice combined with shoeing difficulties encouraged him to abandon them for working horses . |
| 10 | Namely he has expressed his wish to King Leopold of the Belgians and requested him to press us for a withdrawal . |
| 11 | Why had it never occurred to him to use it for more than carving ? |
| 12 | Experience in Northern Ireland enabled him to recognise it for what it was . |
| 13 | He tried the same with Flora but she only told him to save it for his interview with Dr Mackintosh that morning . |
| 14 | ‘ I asked him to get it for me . ’ |
| 15 | Tom Poole suggested it as a last resort , and Coleridge , who remembered the cottage , immediately asked him to take it for a year . |
| 16 | My respects to the captain and ask him to join me for breakfast at , say , eight-thirty . |
| 17 | Presumably on the basis that it could not involve James , she had asked him to join them for supper . |
| 18 | It has been pointed out that incense was given to Jesus at his birth , and perfume poured over him to prepare him for his death . |
| 19 | In this journey , in which we are all engaged , it is photography which has allowed him to achieve something for the first time without struggling — given him a means of craft and communication which feels right and matches his natural capacities as well as being able to respond to his intuition . |
| 20 | In this journey , in which we are all engaged , it is photography which has allowed him to achieve something for the first time without struggling — given him a means of craft and communication which feels right and matches his natural capacities as well as being able to respond to his intuition . |