Example sentences of "[noun] he [vb past] [vb pp] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | He mounted the horse he had led for the last hour or so and walked it cautiously down into Buttermere which he entered with the utter conviction that he had been there before . |
| 2 | As a lawyer he became known for his defence of dissidents and conscientious objectors . |
| 3 | Through Hoskyns he had come for the time under the influence of the leader of anti-rational European theology , Karl Barth , who at this moment was back in Basle after being expelled from Germany by the Nazis . |
| 4 | Thus , summoning all my courage and self-control ( easier to do on paper ) , I replied wishing him luck , and sent by surface mail the photograph he had asked for . |
| 5 | In due course , Mr Cross took the photograph he had come for and the girl crossed the narrow road and watched the train drop down into the valley . |
| 6 | They had been away from home for eight weeks , and one evening the captain showed us the presents he had bought for his wife . |
| 7 | Samuel Pipkin tried to keep excitement from his voice ; in truth he was as shocked as any of them at the reality of what in his mind he had longed for . |
| 8 | All those words he had hoarded for so long and released so grudgingly . |
| 9 | Apart from a few ornaments and pictures he had paid for everything . |
| 10 | His palms were still red from the belting he had got for talking that afternoon . |
| 11 | His bedroom was the Sleeping Beauty scene he 'd done for Biba 's children 's department and the kitchen area was full of artificial trees — which his party guests used to piss against . |
| 12 | Not that she would have fooled anyone as she was , but eighteen months of good food and expert surgery had transformed her , making the thousand yuan he 'd paid for her seem the merest trifle . |
| 13 | The evening terminated with the members singing ‘ For he 's a jolly good fellow ’ to Micky Watson in appreciation of the considerable work he had done for the Club . |
| 14 | The act he 'd devised for the Easter Fete was a black mass . |
| 15 | He referred to the help he had received for his humble efforts during the year of his mayoralty ( 1811 ) . |
| 16 | The director said ‘ Action ’ , the sound recordist said ‘ Running ’ , the assistant cameraman said ‘ One forty-five take one ’ , and I put the first question — how did he think the war would have gone if he 'd started it with the 300 U-boats he 'd asked for in 1938 ? |
| 17 | From then on Endill was never again scared by the strange footsteps he had heard for years in the middle of the night . |
| 18 | He had worked hard all his life and had served his country for four years and was looking forward to retirement in the home he had worked for all his days . |
| 19 | Apparently he had mistaken the small man in jeans for the window cleaner he had sent for . |
| 20 | His letters to Helen , in particular , uncover the head for business , the punctilious sense of irritable rightness , and the concomitant sudden bouts of self-distrust that marched alongside his desire for an extended life of idealized perfection , similar to the intense moments of joyful peace he had discovered for himself during walks . |
| 21 | The little girl too was much improved , no longer neglected , looking very pretty in the new shoes he had bought for her . |
| 22 | The introduction to medieval and Renaissance literature that appeared some months after his death as The Discarded Image ( 1964 ) , based on the accumulated notes of lectures he had given for decades in Oxford and Cambridge , deals sympathetically with authors who , as he approvingly remarks , quote Homer and Hesiod ‘ as if they were no less to be taken into account than the sacred writers ’ ; and the break in the European spirit he saw as a consequence of the seventeenth-century scientific revolution is magnified here , in a sweeping argument , far beyond the familiar classroom shift from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance . |
| 23 | In his latter years he created an elaborate water garden at the cottage ornée he had built for himself on the outskirts of Plymouth , and was wont to drive round the streets of the town in a gig disguised as a Roman war chariot , looking , in Wightwick 's words ‘ ( as far as his true English face and costume allowed ) like Ictinus of the Parthenon , ‘ out for a lark ’ . ’ |
| 24 | He died later that year having certainly left his mark upon the town he had adopted for his ‘ retirement ’ . |
| 25 | The music was his , and emerged as written from the apparatus he had designed for it , but it was changed . |
| 26 | This was precisely the way in which Inspector Porfiry in Dostoevsky 's Crime and Punishment homed in on the culprit Raskolnikov , a man who was also damned by a paper : an article he had written for the Periodical Magazine , months before , offering justifications for certain sorts of crimes . |
| 27 | In March 1985 , he came into conflict with the Lord Chancellor over an article he had written for the Daily Telegraph on Government pressure on the judiciary to shorten sentences and on the inadequacies of the prison system . |
| 28 | There was a fat envelope , probably the proofs of an article he had written for an anthropological journal . |
| 29 | It was a request from a colleague : he 'd be grateful if she could cast her eye over an article he 'd written for a quarterly journal , by Friday if possible . |
| 30 | A lonely childhood , a youthful longing for adventure , made it easy enough for Dick to lay aside his devotion to an almost legendary father and to dedicate himself to the service of a man who gave him the emotional security and incentive he had lacked for so long . |