Example sentences of "he [verb] [pron] [adv prt] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Let's face it , all she 'd have to do would be to sit and let him sleep it off for a while , it was probably what the kid needed most , and he 'd never remember anything different . |
| 2 | But it was his birthday , so he invented a hiccup in the engine to let him take it up for height testing . |
| 3 | However , she allowed him to squire her to the desk , without comment and with a straight face , told him the number of her key , though keys were almost an affectation at ‘ The Salmon 's Return ’ , more for ornament than use , and let him take it down for her and escort her to the foot of the oak staircase , which wound in slightly drunken lurches about a narrow well , the polished treads hollowed by centuries of use . |
| 4 | ‘ You do n't mind ? ’ she asked , thinking it more than good of him to use his morning squiring her around , without him letting himself in for an afternoon of more of the same ! |
| 5 | But Pearce , says : ‘ I just ca n't see him packing it in for a younger man to come in . |
| 6 | The proctologist handed me three envelopes , one addressed to each of us , then told me that if I ever had piles I could rely on him to cut them out for cost . |
| 7 | ‘ What 's he flashing it around for , then ? ’ |
| 8 | He asked me back for lunch after the Eucharist . |
| 9 | " He asked you in for a drink without asking me ? " |
| 10 | Yeah but was he bringing them out for other people as well ? |
| 11 | The following afternoon he invited her round for another meal . |
| 12 | OPERA giant Luciano Pavarotti looked a picture of massive dedication yesterday as he built himself up for his latest role . |
| 13 | When he gets you he beats you up for leaving him ; you go back and start working for him again ; then you try to get away from him ; he finds you again and you just go on like this all the time . |
| 14 | He weighed her up for a moment , his wide mouth compressed and then asked : ‘ D'ye think Isobel would come to a ball with me ? ’ |
| 15 | He told us off for not taking him there |
| 16 | If the pieman win the toss , he receives a penny without giving a pie ; if he lose , he hands it over for nothing' ( Mayhew , London Labour and the London Poor , vol. i , 1861 ) . |
| 17 | On February 1 , 1941 Yamamoto showed his plan to Rear Admiral Takijiro Onishi , Chief of Staff of the 11th Air Fleet , he turned it over for study to his most able commander , Minoru Genda . |
| 18 | " He carried off his subjects ' wives , daughters and kinswomen by force and made them his concubines ; when he had sated his own lust on them he handed them down for his soldiers to enjoy . |
| 19 | So why had he invited her out for the day ? |
| 20 | Billie heard the housekeeper ask Adam in the kitchen as he followed her through for a new packet of cigarettes . |
| 21 | He certainly liked Alix , and after the demo he took her off for lunch in a pub and then for a walk to his room in King 's , where he showed her his pots and his paintings . |
| 22 | A couple of months ago he took her out for a meal and she tried to kiss him . |
| 23 | He took me down for many terrible half-hours beneath the floorboards , beneath the joists , with cord or cable in his questing hand ; the platonic darkness of this underworld became a figure for our nightlife , candle-lit , torchbeam-pierced ; our old existence I came to picture as a boundless cathedral of light . |
| 24 | Although his initial interest had been aroused because of the connection between current problems and events which may have taken place in a former life , he became so enthralled by the topic that he took it up for its own sake . |
| 25 | Erm , but , he sorted something out for me , I , I said , cos of course now |
| 26 | The centre forward , whom they nicknamed Ossie , wore his sideburns long and his shorts even longer — but at least he kept them on for the duration . |
| 27 | He singles them out for favour … [ especially ] Arabs for whom he has a particular affection . ’ |
| 28 | He spelled it out for me . |
| 29 | When she read it out to him he tapped it in for her . |
| 30 | He tapped it in for her . |