Example sentences of "he [verb] be [verb] for [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The the only job which I told Neil I do not expect him to take is working for waste disposal because he did that , this time last year and before he started he was full of big talk about you make a lot of money and you get a lot of tips at Christmas he found that you do not make a lot of money and you do not get generous tips at Christmas |
| 2 | He has been looking for pollen , the other standby of people who study ancient plants . |
| 3 | Where the Crown Court is dealing with an offender for offences for which he has been committed for sentence under Criminal Justice Act 1967. s.56 , whether they are summary or either way , the Court must observe the limitations which would apply in the magistrates ' court to the sentence for those offences . |
| 4 | John McKay ( Points of View , 15 February ) writes that Father James Morrow ‘ like the Pharisees , forgets that the laws he follows were made for man/woman and the social circumstances have to be considered when applying them ’ . |
| 5 | It was true he had had no stomach for the pallid lamb chops that he had been offered for lunch . |
| 6 | I found him in the Grange garden , where he had been waiting for news all night . |
| 7 | He had been imprisoned for want of bail . |
| 8 | He had been bred for battle by the Witch King himself . |
| 9 | He had been marked for life . |
| 10 | Could his intended victim have somehow guessed , from an unguarded look perhaps , that he had been marked for death ? |
| 11 | Of course he had been working for Hut 6 from the day of his arrival at Bletchley and his duties soon became important . |
| 12 | Writing to the Countess of Rutland in 1670 from his ‘ uncouth cell ’ in the Fleet prison , where he had been committed for debt , Crowe was scathing about the quality of the tapestries produced by William , Earl of Craven [ q.v. ] , and his associates who had taken over from him at Mortlake in 1667 . |
| 13 | And yes , he 's been mistaken for food a few times ! |
| 14 | KIWI referee David Bishop has had an exciting year , what with being ‘ congratulated ’ in the Parc des Princes tunnel by Daniel Dubroca and then being asked whether he minded being wired for sound to the whole stadium for the Springbok-Wallaby clash at Newlands . |