Example sentences of "he [be] [verb] for [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unfortunately , the new baronet lived in India and no instructions from him were expected for many months . |
| 2 | He is calling for good conditions for traders at the new pitches in Tarleton Street , Williamson Square and Paradise Street . |
| 3 | He is calling for more funds to reduce waiting lists . |
| 4 | He is troubled for two reasons . |
| 5 | The announcement only fuelled speculation that he is earmarked for greater things in the Shandwick organisation , of which PRCS is now a part , or even that he was preparing the way for something completely different when his five-year golden handcuffs are released next year . |
| 6 | The athlete statues of Polykleitos , later in the century , might well stem from this tradition , and he is claimed for both cities . |
| 7 | Mr , you you 've er commented upon Mr 's objection that he made himself , but of course there are he is appearing for many others , |
| 8 | Jon Stratton has suggested that he is needed for ideological reasons too ( 1983 ) : in Stratton 's view , the ‘ romantic ’ image of the creative artist is no false veneer nor confined to ‘ mass culture ’ , but part of a larger tradition , within which the dialectic of ‘ romanticism ’ and commodification is basic to capitalist culture as such ; thus it implicates the ‘ individualism ’ of , say , Beethoven as well as that of pop stars and composers . |
| 9 | In fact he is asking for two kinds of help : aid to stop ongoing injury and aid to recover from the damage . |
| 10 | And of course , he 's searching for these chemicals because he believes they will make him well again . |
| 11 | He 's asked for pre-sentence reports and the case was adjourned until February 9th . |
| 12 | Our Dave 's coming for us , he ca n't have all that time off , he 's coming for three weeks in er |
| 13 | In a series of acts dating from 1317 , 1322 and 1328 he was compensated for any losses sustained through the renunciation of that claim . |
| 14 | Because he had actually found the cut wires he was grilled for several days , as were several other suspects , all electricians . |
| 15 | He was fifty when his rise to prominence began soon after the accession of Amenophis III , whom he was to serve for thirty years before he died at the age of eighty . |
| 16 | For weeks he would live in a world by himself conscious as he watched the humdrum routine of his fellow prisoners that he was destined for higher things and happy in the knowledge that he was not as other men . |
| 17 | She liked Yeats well enough , and although poetry meant little to her , she could see that he was destined for great things . |
| 18 | He was done for four years for fraud . |
| 19 | He was looking for female voices , he remembered Jakki , invited her to submit some tapes and — presto ! — she was offered a job in The Smoke . |
| 20 | He was selected for two tours of England , in 1927 and 1931 . |
| 21 | " Your pal at the shipping office was n't hard to check on , because he 's been in our hands — no charge in the end , but he was detained for twenty-four hours while inquiries were made . |
| 22 | Following a series of strikes in 1981 , he was detained for three months , during which time he became a " born-again " Christian . |
| 23 | He was jailed for six months , fined £500 and banned from driving for 25 years . |
| 24 | He was jailed for five years for manslaughter but today it was reduced to three and a half years . |
| 25 | He was jailed for five years . |
| 26 | He was jailed for 3.5 years for his part in the affair . |
| 27 | He was jailed for four years at the High Court , Edinburgh in July 1992 when a jury found him guilty of indecently assaulting an 18-year-old boy he met in St Andrews Bus Station , Edinburgh . |
| 28 | He was jailed for 10 years . |
| 29 | He was jailed for nine months by York Crown Court after admitting six trading offences . |
| 30 | He was jailed for 13 years after Customs officers found three- quarters of a ton of the drug in the back of his lorry at Dover . |