Example sentences of "[noun] for [pron] he [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He tried to bolster his courage by reciting the reasons for what he was doing : go per cent of them boiled down to a pressing need for money , so pressing that the bank was threatening to foreclose on his mortgage ; the other lo per cent was divided between the desire to do Lorton a good turn and the feeling that the Newleys deserved whatever fate could throw at them . |
| 2 | In view of Poindexter 's claim that Reagan had authorized some of the activities for which he was indicted , District Judge Harold H. Greene had allowed the defendant to subpoena extracts from Reagan 's diaries and personal papers to assist in his defence . |
| 3 | He sold it to Sir John Strangways , a member of the Illchester family , in 1641 ; four years later , however , the manor passed on yet again to another Illchester in part payment for fines imposed on poor Strangways for malignancy , a crime for which he was put in the Tower . |
| 4 | Most of his jokes turned on his posterior and the various crises for which he was having to see whatever proctologist he was currently consulting . |
| 5 | In fact he did not do the work for which he was paid and , indeed , after December 1987 there was no record of any quarterly VAT returns whatsoever having been made . |
| 6 | Adrian 's a very good photographer and we soon established a reciprocal relationship whereby he photographed the artists ' work for which he was paid in kind . |
| 7 | Is he entitled to confine himself to the particular matters for which he is retained to advise or was he to consider all the circumstances affecting the underlying data including hypothetical circumstances or risks which attention directed from one and not specifically sought . |
| 8 | In the view of the Court , the sentencer had given proper recognition of the seriousness of the history and the offences for which he was sentencing the appellant , and had taken into account all the relevant guidelines and principles . |
| 9 | This option presents the user with the list of packages for which he is required to endorse the SSR . |
| 10 | By his middle years he had published little , and the ideas for which he is remembered did not begin to develop until then . |
| 11 | the occupier of premises does not owe any such duty to a trespasser : he does not owe to the trespasser a duty to take such care as in all the circumstances of the case is reasonable to see that the trespasser will be reasonably safe in using the premises for the purposes for which he is trespassing . |
| 12 | The common duty of care is a duty to take such care as in all the circumstances of the case is reasonable to see that the visitor will be reasonably safe in using the premises for the purposes for which he is invited or permitted by the occupier to be there . |
| 13 | The duty is in s. 2(2) of the Act : The common duty of care is a duty to take such care as in all the circumstances of the case is reasonable to see that the visitor will be reasonably safe in using the premises for the purposes for which he is invited or permitted to be there . |
| 14 | This is a duty to take reasonable care for the visitor 's safety for the purposes for which he was permitted to be there . |
| 15 | Glen Webbe , of international fame and a target for League clubs , might just as well have stayed home decorating his Christmas tree for what he was called on to do . |
| 16 | I hate Luke Denner for what he 's done . ’ |
| 17 | As far as one can assess the merit of Levin 's text in relation to its subject , it seems somewhat implausible that Debord can be all the things for which he is proclaimed . |
| 18 | Stephenson , for his part , organised directly among the coal owners for whom he was rendering a valuable service . |
| 19 | He had selected the 27-year-old Kate Miskin on her record and her performance at interview , satisfied that she had the qualities for which he was looking . |
| 20 | Bishop William Alexander preached an eulogy which was eloquent but somewhat imprecise about the qualities for which he was celebrated : |
| 21 | While still at grammar school , Oskar Reinhart suspected that art was where his future lay , rather than the commercial life for which he was intended . |
| 22 | Ruling over an infernal world , the President is cast in the role of Satan , while his favourite , Angel Face , is identified with Lucifer , but his rebellion takes the form of forsaking evil for good , a crime of treason for which he is banished to the bowels of the earth in the President 's deepest dungeon . |
| 23 | One lad , belonging to a respected family , had been given a long sentence although he and local residents emphatically maintained that he was not at the scene of the incident for which he was convicted . |
| 24 | The first job of the officer is to ‘ determine whether he has before him sufficient evidence to charge that person with the offence for which he was arrested ’ . |
| 25 | ( f ) Section 32(2) ( b ) , dealing with the search of anyone arrested for any offence , arrestable or otherwise , allows the police to enter and search the premises where the suspect was at the time of his arrest or immediately before for evidence relating to the offence for which he was arrested . |
| 26 | But under the Criminal Law Act 1967 anyone can arrest on reasonable suspicion of an arrestable offence , save that where the arrest is by a private person ( as here ) he must show either ( 1 ) that the arrested person was in fact in the act of committing the offence for which he was arrested , or he reasonably suspected the arrested person to be in the act of committing it , or ( 2 ) the arrested person had in fact committed the offence , or he reasonably suspected the arrested person of having committed the offence and ( in this last case ) the offence had in fact been committed by someone . |
| 27 | He was regularly attending to the pumps on Sundays for which he was paid 1/ the " stem " , or day , and he assisted in the workings by wheelbarrowing and other miscellaneous jobs . |
| 28 | According to decisions of labour courts , no legally enforceable relationship exists between the casual worker and the organization for which he is working in the times when he is not engaged by them . |
| 29 | Rumours were rife that Wigan were poised to swoop for the 22-year-old Great Britain star and Saints were lining up Featherstone Rovers ' international Paul Newlove as a replacement but Mr Latham adds : ‘ There have been no enquiries for him he is contracted to us . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ Ai nt no VietCong ever called me a nigger , ’ was his simple , but penetrating , reason for not accepting the draft for which he was stripped of his world title and forced into inactivity for three years ( only to return from adversity and carry on boxing , often successfully , for world titles until aged 38 ) . |