Example sentences of "[conj] he [verb] [pron] [noun sg] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Having divined the source of his miseries , the bewitched victim reports to the chief 's court , where he submits his accusation for verification by the chief 's own oracle . |
| 2 | And Goethe — although he retained his admiration for the Greeks , and not least for the three tragedians , right up to his death in 1832 — mostly looked in other directions for his inspiration after the unfinished drama Pandora of 1810 . |
| 3 | During his speech he made no mention of Kuwait , although he repeated his call for a ceasefire , to be followed by US-Iraqi talks and inter-Arab dialogue . |
| 4 | It turned out that he shared my liking for the more conventional kind of organ . |
| 5 | My first thought was that he meant his feeling for me . |
| 6 | For our answer we have made an arbitrary assumption that he uses his car for 80% of the time for business and that half the repairs etc. relate to that car . |
| 7 | Even though the hon. Gentleman occasionally speaks with forked tongue — and , as we shall see later , his views are not shared by his Front-Bench colleague , the hon. Member for Fife , Central ( Mr. McLeish ) — I welcome the fact that he proclaims his support for the TECs . |
| 8 | It was there that he developed his passion for acting , joining a prisoners ' drama group . |
| 9 | He played against the touring Western Samoa and Italy sides that same season and it was not until 1989 that he got his chance for a full tenure for the Five Nations games . |
| 10 | A Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman on Oct. 10 rejected a proposal made by the Dalai Lama in a speech in the USA on Oct. 9 to return to Tibet for the first time since 1959 , and demanded that he abandon his support for Tibetan independence . |
| 11 | He so loved you and me that he gave his son for us ! |
| 12 | Suppose that he refused his consent for corrupt motives , or in bad faith … for party-political reasons , and not in the interests of the public at large … or because he considered that the information was laid by a pressure group , of which he disapproved … |
| 13 | He was handed his first full England cap against France in February and shut out Eric Cantona so comprehensively that he held his place for the European Championship finals . |
| 14 | ‘ Are you going to tell me that he holds his castle for the Empress and wo n't take you back ? ’ |
| 15 | Perhaps Adams was more astute than he gave him credit for . |
| 16 | And he had his permission for the charter … |
| 17 | Police were called and he swapped his castle for a cell . |
| 18 | It was my ex who got me fixed up with the job ; Dizzy owed him , and he owed me maintenance for Jed , and I wanted to get away from town and get involved in something where I could start to 69 respect myself again … everything kind of fitted into place . |
| 19 | ‘ I can cope , ’ I said and he took my word for it . |
| 20 | And he bought our motorbike for twelve pounds . |
| 21 | and they used to collect the rents from there er some of them and er up er he came home one day and he said erm , I 'm not going up there collecting again , as he er collected the bugs used to drop on his collecting pad I said , finish the job do n't go again , but anyway they persuaded the people to take the rents into the office you see instead of having to have a rent collector , but er it was horrible he , he worked for them twenty five years and then when he was sixty four he had his , a stroke , but he went back again after eight months and he completed his job for when , you know he stayed in the office , he was er him and erm started the rebate , well it was footwork the rebate system was worked out at the Town Hall , but they , the rent men had to carry it out you see and er he er work the system out and of course erm , when he was sixty five he finished , course he was lucky really , but then er he could get about fairly well , but after the years drew on you know his , his health deteriorated and er but he lived er he was sixty four and he was eighty five when he died but erm |
| 22 | Sudden pity softened him towards her , and he forgot his urge for revenge . |
| 23 | Taking his curtain calls after a successful speech , he drew her to him by the hand and entwined his arms with hers until she gently shook him off , whereupon he enjoyed his triumph for a while manfully alone , until he again resorted to his wife Glenys , going to fetch her , leading her again by the hand , and holding her by the waist . |
| 24 | I hope he scores a try and if he keeps his place for the Five Nations at my expense , good luck to him . ’ |
| 25 | Is a defendant who fails even to consider that a woman might not be consenting still to be acquitted if he takes her consent for granted ? |
| 26 | Magistrates said they could disqualify him from driving and asked Elsworth if he needed his licence for his job . |
| 27 | ‘ The prime advantage of an exit charge would have been to the investor because he would have got into our funds at a nil cost and out again at a very low cost if he held his investment for , say , three years . ’ |
| 28 | But he gave me money for my boat , and for Xury , too . |
| 29 | But he claims his request for details of the regulations was refused on the ground that they are ‘ very severe ’ and that Cameron Balloons would find it impossible to meet them . |
| 30 | Allan Roberts raised the issue because he realised its importance for lesbian and gay liberation , but he then tried to dismiss it because he also realised that even to articulate the question ran counter to Labour 's ‘ duty to win ’ . |