Example sentences of "when he [verb] [noun] for [noun prp] " in BNC.

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1 She took over from him when he left Grampian for Strathclyde in 1978 .
2 When he left Williams for Ferrari , I remember Frank Williams reminiscing at his annual press luncheon that he had fond memories of Alan Jones and Keke Rosberg , but that it would be some time before he had similar memories of Nigel .
3 But in 1749 he committed a greater indiscretion when he left Cambridge for London , to live on his wits .
4 When he took classes for McWhirter he stuck to the Romantics , or things that one could get a good adolescent wallow out of : Housman , say , or The Ballad of Reading Gaol .
5 One of the craft was in a mighty hurry when he set Judas for Jesus at John vi.67 , as happened in 1609 ; and so was his descendant in 1653 when , at Corinthians vi.9 , he pronounced that ‘ the unrighteous shall inherit the kingdom of God ’ , which must have been a great comfort to a considerable number of citizens under the Commonwealth .
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