Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] he for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her eyes beseeched him for the truth . |
| 2 | His enemies among the ancient geographers attacked him for what he reported about the mysterious North — Great Britain , Jutland , and whatever Thule was . |
| 3 | But Ken 's experience in working with wood , coupled to a keen eye for design , was soon put to good use when customers asked him for ideas on pond layout , particularly those with a Japanese flavour . |
| 4 | Sixteen million viewers thanked him for it , very soon dangerously hooked on the bronzed domestic shenanigans of Ramsay Street 's self-pollinating families . |
| 5 | And then he gave order that all the windows of the towers which looked in upon the town should be closed up , that the Christians might not see what the Moors did in their houses ; and the Moors thanked him for this greatly . |
| 6 | Fukase 's series RAVENS preoccupied him for ten years , beginning with a chance photograph of a flock of crows on his native Hokkaido in 1975 and culminating in the publication of 62 photographs in 1986 . |
| 7 | Selahattin Simsek said that during his interrogation , police officers tortured him for 23 consecutive days , but he confessed to nothing more than ‘ a certain sympathy ’ for the PKK . |
| 8 | Livingston , who has vowed to clear his name after British athletics chiefs banned him for four years for drugs cheating , said : ‘ I am being imprisoned for something I have n't done . |
| 9 | While some gay rights groups denounced him for promoting negative stereotypes , ‘ Men On Film ’ also became a regular feature on the gay club circuit . |
| 10 | Election 1992 : ‘ Red ’ stumped as Tory ladies hit him for six |
| 11 | Locke 's friends commended him for demolishing Proast 's ecclesiastical regime as effectively as he had the absolutist civil polity of Sir Robert Filmer [ q.v . ] . |
| 12 | She had never seen him with his hair cut short , and the absence of the red-blond locks made him for a moment unrecognisable . |
| 13 | BANKRUPT former publican Maurice Siddle was contemplating suicide hours before police stopped him for drink driving on Christmas Day , a court heard . |
| 14 | BANKRUPT former publican Maurice Siddle was contemplating suicide before police stopped him for drink-driving on Christmas Day , a court heard . |
| 15 | Police followed him for six miles on the A1 near Dishforth at speeds of up to 96mph through heavy rain . |
| 16 | The world champion may not be worried about the £500 fine handed out for throwing the last game of his bizarre straight-games loss to Jahangir Khan in the final of last month 's Stuttgart Open , but he should be more concerned at the zero computer points assigned him for the Stuttgart tournament , which may enable Jahangir to overtake him in the New Year rankings , plus the fact that any further misdemeanour will probably mean draconian punishment . |
| 17 | He seemed as happy as Larry trailing round the greasy dustbins of Bristol till nuclear war broke out or the police nabbed him for pilfering a used Tesco bag . |
| 18 | Others applauded him for standing up to America . |
| 19 | City of London magistrates fined him for the refusal but ruled he could keep his licence . |
| 20 | Magistrates bailed him for eight weeks on conditions which included not venturing out alone from the Leahurst residential home for the mentally disturbed . |
| 21 | Some denounced Jean-Claude for insulting his public , others praised him for respecting them . |
| 22 | The verdict on whether Mr Lamont will remain as Chancellor remained open last night , with many Tories seeing it as an electoral mistake to raise fuel bills in the run up the next election , while others praised him for tackling the public deficit . |
| 23 | ‘ But the robbers killed him for nothing . |
| 24 | Other analysts criticized him for being both too political and unscientific — science being assumed to be apolitical in principle . |
| 25 | His guardian uncles intended him for an academic career , and his brother Christopher , presumably of similar intelligence and attainment , later became Master of Trinity . |