Example sentences of "he [vb -s] [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 | He uses it for taping i at work . |
| 3 | ‘ An ’ then he prosecutes us for cuttin' animals up in a public place , ’ Jake went on . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 |
| 7 | He takes it for granted that in human generation the female is the passive principle , the male the active . |
| 8 | He scolds me for leaving the flat . |