Example sentences of "he [adv] [vb past] for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 After a spell in private practice , Vial was made equerry to Louis XVI and chef de manège of the Lyons riding academy , a post he apparently held for some years , but could not retain .
2 Just as he once battled for supreme fitness , he has poured his energy into learning to speak again .
3 The next year he also served for six weeks in Kuwait , with the 2nd Battalion of the Parachute Regiment , to counter an Iraqi threat .
4 He also worked for several years with the Lutheran World Federation .
5 He also called for existing club members to provide greater public access to their clubs .
6 He also called for further tax changes which would encourage research and development activity , and a regional aid system with incentives for training .
7 Surviving reports show that he also acted for other litigants during the same period , both in the Common Bench and in eyres .
8 He told the reporter that he later lived for two years on a barge near Shrewsbury , during which time he suffered a stroke but refused to go to hospital .
9 He had a number of set speeches which he frequently rehearsed for such occasions .
10 He then served for three years as Secretary General of the Islamic Conference Organization .
11 In Cairo on Oct. 24 , he then went for one day to Damascus , meeting President Assad of Syria , and returned unexpectedly to Egypt on Oct. 26 .
12 He then worked for eighteen months in the Southampton naval works before returning to Glasgow late in 1891 as an assistant lecturer in naval architecture and marine engineering at the university , and it was soon after this that his intensive study of the design of bird-like gliders began .
13 He then worked for many years as a country doctor , during which time his son Robert nearly died from smallpox inoculation performed by a ‘ surgeon of his acquaintance ’ .
14 He then worked for three years for Alexander Cowan & Co. at Musselburgh Paper Mills .
15 And he did train , he actually trained for five years , and instead of holiday he got , and something he 'd like to have done is learnt to compete in the Whitbread Round the World .
16 Certainly , he never looked for one moment as though there were a dose of castor oil beneath his nose .
17 He occasionally went for lonely walks on the moors , and regularly visited his wife 's grave .
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