Example sentences of "he [verb] for [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The injury is likely to keep him sidelined for two months . |
| 2 | His stature increased and with such international renown it was natural for him to serve for two years , 1970–2 , as the President of the International Society of Electrochemistry . |
| 3 | But if you hear him speak for five minutes you think no more of them . |
| 4 | Lily could think only of him paying for little girls . |
| 5 | I said that someone in Montefiore 's position should check his facts before sounding off , and advised him to campaign for more resources all round instead of trying to trade one disadvantaged group off against another . |
| 6 | At Mr Banzer 's closing rally in La Paz , many Bolivians defied the cold to hear him call for higher taxes on the rich and more efficiency in government : ‘ We will tighten the government 's belt and loosen the belt on the people . ’ |
| 7 | I think I had not heard him cry for six years . |
| 8 | It features new stone sculptures intended to be shown outdoors as well as in the gallery , a new red ‘ Void ’ from that continuing series of wall sculptures , one of which was shown in Kapoor 's pavilion at the Venice Biennale in 1990 , and material related to the stage designs which he made for recent performances by dancer Laurie Booth at the Queen Elizabeth Hall . |
| 9 | Muttering incomprehensibly , he made for some bushes where he disappeared from Emily 's view . |
| 10 | He got him to hospital and the doctors said that he lived for 70 minutes , but he was dead by the time we got there . |
| 11 | The man claims he was then taken to a boat on the Norfolk Broads , where he lived for two weeks , and then spent a week holed-up in a room at an unknown holiday camp . |
| 12 | He lived for many years at Brockham , Betchworth , Surrey , and died there 10 April 1935 . |
| 13 | He lived for twenty years with the family as a lodger with meals included : ‘ he had a home with us , all those years . ’ |
| 14 | And while Toff claims his techniques are very much part of the English slipware tradition , his pots often look like something out of Africa , where he lived for several years . |
| 15 | Miguel joins us direct from BARCELONA , where he lived for several months . |
| 16 | He plays for Western Suburbs against Newcastle in Sunday 's Winfield Cup play-offs . |
| 17 | ‘ He goes for long walks , ’ said Betty mundanely . |
| 18 | In 1959 , three years after he applied for German papers under his own name at the German embassy , he fled to Paraguay as the Frankfurt authorities issued the first warrant for his arrest . |
| 19 | He asked for seven offences to be considered . |
| 20 | He asked for streamlined procedures to sift out frivolous applications and allow individual board members greater discretion to reduce the number of full hearings . |
| 21 | An Oxford rugby blue in 1959 and 1960 and a keen sailor , Sir Robin , 54 , is remembered by many Whitehall contemporaries as the shrewd captain of the Mandarins cricket team which he led for many years . |
| 22 | Neil , Neil now says , that when he meets a girl , he , he waits to see if she 's got any characteristics in common with the dreadful Vicky , the girl that he eventually fetch her much deserved slosh on the chops and was pulled into Ipswich Magistrates Court , you know , oh I should n't laugh , but erm , he says he looks for those characteristics , and the moment he sees that the girl is going to be this sort of neurotic , excitable , hysterical creature he walks away . |
| 23 | ‘ He tried for eight years ! ’ he rasped . |
| 24 | As a natural artist , he became a successful portrait painter a cartoonist for a Liverpool journal and art master at a number of Liverpool schools before embarking upon a career as missioner which he pursued for thirty years until his retirement in 1931 . |
| 25 | Neither had any inkling of Gooch 's worries as he reported for two days pre-tour training at Lilleshall in each of the weeks leading up to Christmas . |
| 26 | A courteous man , he had an expression that he used for all seasons — ‘ Lovely ! |
| 27 | And there , on the top of his open bag , staring straight at him , was the white notepad he used for issuing prescriptions . |
| 28 | But he made the studio ( which he used for twenty years ) simple and plain , matching a portrait style in which , in his own words , ‘ character rather than flattery was the dominant note . ’ |
| 29 | In front of the blue-and-white 707 , he stopped for final farewells . |
| 30 | He entered for all parts of the competition and submitted twenty-one drawings . |