Example sentences of "he [verb] [pron] for [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And he hates me for giving in to them , and for seeing how he 's shrunk . |
| 2 | I was 45 before I spoke with Toscanini and then he attacked me for doing Debussy 's Pelléas et Mélisande at La Scala in French . |
| 3 | He rebuked me for liking it . |
| 4 | At the end of that time ‘ he qualified himself for practising whether as a physician or a surgeon ’ , and returned to Bedfordshire where , ‘ with the consent of the Clergy and the local practitioners , he attended the destitute poor ’ . |
| 5 | He uses it for taping i at work . |
| 6 | It was a bitter irony that he condemned her for loving a man who was out of reach . |
| 7 | ‘ What reason did he give you for coming all the way over to Otters ' Bay when he could perfectly well have slept in his boat ? ’ |
| 8 | ‘ An ’ then he prosecutes us for cuttin' animals up in a public place , ’ Jake went on . |
| 9 | He condemns her for trying this trick , which is followed by a terrible fall downstairs in the course of an attempt to end her pregnancy . |
| 10 | He hated her for making it impossible for him to bring women home . |
| 11 | Perhaps he hated her for inheriting most of the Havisham fortune . |
| 12 | He accepted this he was too young to do anything else — but he hated her for saying it . |
| 13 | He hated me for attracting him . |
| 14 | He hated himself for pressing a dying friend , but some gut-fear , some primordial terror drove him on . |
| 15 | He admired her for dealing with it so capably . |
| 16 | He praises him for insisting that we free ourselves from the Idols , get rid of preconceived notions , and form our ideas on the basis of properly conducted experiments . |
| 17 | Before he died , he cursed us for killing his son . |
| 18 | He was pleased with the result and wanted to use it for something for himself and he adapted it for designing colour patterns for Sandra to knit on her machine . |
| 19 | He thanked me for helping take care of his grandmother . ’ |
| 20 | He thanked her for coming and saw her off the premises , but he was left wondering at her distress which seemed to arise more from fear than from grief . |
| 21 | And I reckon that he 's the sort of person who would turn into someone that would hit someo hit his his woman , because he takes her for granted enough as it is , and that , I reckon that 's how wife battering starts because the husband starts taking the woman for granted so much |
| 22 | He takes it for granted that in human generation the female is the passive principle , the male the active . |
| 23 | He blamed himself for crediting her with a maturity she did not possess , and regretted that his attempts to assist her studies had been so tragically misinterpreted by her . |
| 24 | He blamed himself for letting Jess persuade him into running off . |
| 25 | And he hailed it for providing an ideal environment in which individualism can flourish . |
| 26 | He took it for granted that people would fall in love with Eva . |
| 27 | He took it for granted she would be there to service him whenever he wanted it . |
| 28 | ‘ Not in so many words , but until a month or two back he took it for granted that the business would come to him . |
| 29 | He scolds me for leaving the flat . |
| 30 | He despised her for betraying her family and her faith . |