Example sentences of "[verb] he [verb] [pers pn] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | I found him cursing her for the border . |
| 3 | ‘ I expect he did it for the insurance , ’ Dangerfield said . |
| 4 | She wrote that she was dying of a fever , and asked him to visit her for the first and last time . |
| 5 | Only when it became totally apparent that she would never reform and was bent on self-destruction for both of them did he leave her for the younger and more stable Lauren Bacall . |
| 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 | … I can hear but never see him telling me for the tenth or hundredth time the story of the Wiltshire moonrakers … and many another comic tale or rhyme . |