Example sentences of "and [vb past] he for " in BNC.
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| 1 | In his battle dispatch , Beatty described Cornwell 's bravery and recommended him for ‘ special recognition … as an acknowledgement of the high example set by him . ’ |
| 2 | A brave reporter thrust a microphone under his nose and asked him for his comments . |
| 3 | I went to visit him at the Benedictine monastery at Nashdom and asked him for any insights which he could give me from his experience in Accra . |
| 4 | Thinking about this one morning in 1954 , I went along to the keeper of the laboratory chemical stores and asked him for something which was water-soluble and formed needle crystals . |
| 5 | I told him this and asked him for a prescription for a warm , dry home . |
| 6 | So with this going on we found our company would get on better if I had collateral so I wrote to this boy and asked him for a million and put it in a trust fund that I would get after his death , and we that way so okay . |
| 7 | I believe she has even phoned an old school friend of mine whom she avowedly dislikes and asked him for the manuscript of a symphony we once composed together . |
| 8 | Kalchu was ashamed of his drunkenness and Chola grumbled and rebuked him for it . |
| 9 | Mr Reynolds said he was ‘ disturbed ’ by the content of what Sir Hugh said on Wednesday and rebuked him for ‘ going public ’ . |
| 10 | She turned on Walter Ash and reviled him for allowing her to hope , and indeed , despite the final outcome , it was his dangerous encouragement of this scheme that prefaced her final disillusion with him . |
| 11 | The first year that they obtained a vintage of acceptable quality , he sent a dozen cases to his old régisseur to lay down , and invited him for a tasting . |
| 12 | I took him round to Cheapside and booked him for being drunk and disorderly . |
| 13 | His great-uncle took Charles under his wing and prepared him for the job ahead . |
| 14 | After hearing the evidence the justices announced that they found him guilty , but on hearing of his previous convictions they decided that they would not deal with the case and committed him for trial to quarter sessions . |
| 15 | Time was the theme that fired his heart as a young student and affected him for the rest of his life . |
| 16 | She eventually found one who was also an art collector and paid him for operating on her with her own works of art , most of them created at the Fine Arts School of Dijon where she teaches . |
| 17 | When at the end his brothers poured out their guilt and begged him for forgiveness , he replied with the words , ‘ Fear not , for am I in the place of God ? ’ |
| 18 | Privately , they have backed Lamb and admired him for disclosing the Pakistanis ' ball-scuffing skulduggery . |
| 19 | Before they left , Gallardo shook Valenzuela 's hand and thanked him for the cigarettes he had given him in captivity . |
| 20 | When he told them that the Government could have used more oil at the power stations this summer and so built up coal stocks for the winter against a possible strike , but had n't , they merely retorted , ‘ More fool you ’ and thanked him for letting them know how strong their position was . |
| 21 | Some novelist went up to a critic last night and thanked him for a review he wrote on a novel of his in about the year 1900 and congratulated him because he got it right . |
| 22 | Jimmy cursed him for a fool and thanked him for standing aside . |
| 23 | But he would concede nothing , and in the end I gave him a dry little bow and thanked him for the tea . |
| 24 | presented him with a huge pepper mill and thanked him for his hard work . |
| 25 | She opened her eyes and cursed him for disturbing her silent thoughts . |
| 26 | Despite his meeting so many of her demands on his time and attention , she often complained about and blamed him for his inattentiveness . |
| 27 | She had n't told him much except that she did not like her neighbour Fireman Mosse and blamed him for the death of his wife . |
| 28 | His eyes blackened angrily and Ruth supposed she had been right and exposed him for what he was — a cool bastard . |
| 29 | Whilst at the track the police arrived and arrested him for being in possession of a stolen car . |
| 30 | The regime thus charged him with damage of government property and jailed him for a few months until he was released under a general amnesty . |