Example sentences of "he [vb past] [pron] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Like a bologna sandwich ? ’ he asked her , as he made one for himself . |
| 2 | But he got a pattern made and had the base of the machine made at a local foundry and he made all the leverage parts and got the , he got the blades made in Sheffield or somewhere and er he made one for himself . |
| 3 | He made nothing for himself out of the plunder of the Church lands . |
| 4 | She would remind Froggy of it the next time he ragged her for a noodle . |
| 5 | yesterday right in the park and he hugged me for about ten years . |
| 6 | I was 45 before I spoke with Toscanini and then he attacked me for doing Debussy 's Pelléas et Mélisande at La Scala in French . |
| 7 | Just keep half the gram he lent you for your own use , and sell the rest . |
| 8 | Actress Robin Givens gave the man a bloody nose after he mistook her for a hooker while she was filming in Chicago . |
| 9 | She stirred against him , and he mistook it for something like the small movements of a child asleep , and smiled down at her through the slow current of perfume rising from her black , turmoiled hair ; but she was awake and brought her head up , drawing away from him a little , looking at him , so that he had to hide his smile quickly , because it was n't something he had meant her to see . |
| 10 | It was fear that locked his tongue , but mercifully he mistook it for pride , so its bitterness did not poison him . |
| 11 | Whereas Flynn was at the other end of the scale , for , despite his external charm , he really seemed to care little about anybody 's well-being — possibly because he cared nothing for his own . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 ’ : |
| 14 | He cared nothing for his wife and daughter and they must wipe him from their minds . |
| 15 | He rebuked me for liking it . |
| 16 | He rebuked himself for his stupidity . |
| 17 | Woolworth chief Geoff Mulcahy 's shares cost £374,000 — and he sold them for a £1,037,000 profit . |
| 18 | So he sold them for four X. |
| 19 | If a lettuce cost the retailer 10p and he sold it for 15p , what was the mark up in cash terms ? |
| 20 | Entirely without authority he sold it for £75 to Harper , a garage proprietor who was unaware that Searle was not the owner . |
| 21 | Tony believes he sold it for around £400 in 1949 . |
| 22 | He fought it for a second , then gave in . |
| 23 | When he failed to persuade her to cancel it , he asked her for a date — and romance blossomed . |
| 24 | Kit knelt in front of Ariel and cried ; he asked her for forgiveness . |
| 25 | ‘ What 's — the matter this morning ? ’ she said , in the voice she had used when he asked her for an off-games note . |
| 26 | I can not recall an occasion when he asked me for help before . |
| 27 | He asked me for £100,000 to help him pay legal fees . |
| 28 | ‘ And there was a sailor there — submariner , I think he was — and he asked me for a date , but I said no . ’ |
| 29 | He asked me for 50,000 francs for Félix . |
| 30 | And always , every day , he asked me for money . |