Example sentences of "he be [verb] [prep] [noun] for " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | I neither knew nor cared whether my distress for him was based on love for a man or love for a patient . |
| 2 | He bent and twisted himself before it , jerking suddenly this way and that , as if he were lying in wait for disease , determined to pounce on it before it could strike . |
| 3 | Firstly , Dustin is hidden under a folding bed which he is repairing in readiness for his first sexual experience , and then he is off-camera , talking to his parents , in the one comic-satiric scene that Woody Allen might not have disowned . |
| 4 | You could ask PH to introspect into the contents of his phenomenological awareness when he is looking at faces for as long as you liked , but there would be no insight that any recognition is occurring . |
| 5 | I am told he is turning to wolves for the next . |
| 6 | This chap with the leg or something who wants to see you said something about being or having been a patient , but not being here as one now , and as he 's loaded with flowers for you and I did n't know how Old Red would take it , I used the sterilizer . ’ |
| 7 | I swear , he 's dying of love for you , and he 'll be in the grave by next summer unless you help him ! |
| 8 | Then he says , oh he 's working on cars for the family , ha , ha , ha , ha . |
| 9 | So he 's going to Holland for three or four days . |
| 10 | ‘ He 's going to America for a short while . |
| 11 | He was fitted in blinkers for the 1984 Gold Cup but behaved mulishly , twice trying to pull himself up before finishing a distant sixth to Burrough Hill Lad . |
| 12 | She had also been completely in love with Jamie , but of course he had rejected her ; there was no room in his life for love — not while he was consumed with hatred for his brother Charles . |
| 13 | He was consumed with desire for the possession to come and whenever he could he tried to add to the 45/ in the Post Office Savings Bank so that they could spend some time away together with Dad Uzzell . |
| 14 | He was remanded on bail for reports . |
| 15 | He was remanded in custody for six months . |
| 16 | He was remanded in custody for seven days . |
| 17 | He was remanded in custody for a week . |
| 18 | He was remanded in custody for 7 days . |
| 19 | He was remanded in custody for three and a half weeks . |
| 20 | He was remanded in custody for enquiries to be made if he could be sent to a probation hostel . |
| 21 | He was remanded in custody for a week . |
| 22 | He was remanded in custody for a week . |
| 23 | He was remanded in custody for a week . |
| 24 | An application for bail was refused by Richmond magistrates and he was remanded in custody for a further seven days . |
| 25 | He was remanded in custody for social inquiry and medical reports to be prepared . |
| 26 | Initially he was treated with ganciclovir for 3 months , which was later changed to foscarnet for lack of response and presumed resistance . |
| 27 | He was treated in hospital for facial cuts . |
| 28 | He was to go to Brighton for a fortnight in another play , in 1950 , A Phoenix Too Frequent by Christopher Fry , whose well-wrought and ‘ difficult ’ verse dramas had so unexpectedly caught the taste of the public . |
| 29 | During the subsequent ‘ railway mania ’ period he was engaged on proposals for several new lines , including the Stafford–Rugby line through the Trent valley , opened in 1847 , for which he was principal engineer , working with Robert Stephenson and G. P. Bidder [ q.v . ] . |
| 30 | It was not until 1947 that he was selected by Surrey for a Championship match , and in 1948 he twice took five wickets in an innings . |