Example sentences of "he was [adv] [adj] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Richard was holding Beth 's other hand , but he was not so composed because everything around him was too exciting for a boy of such tender years , and so he skipped , and laughed , and sang , and teased Cissie about her ‘ po-face ’ . |
| 2 | He was jointly responsible for writing at least one tune which became a hit and made a name for the other writer . |
| 3 | He was jointly responsible for the original design work on the great suspension bridges across the estuaries of the Severn , Forth , and Humber , and later developed and patented the revolutionary aerofoil-shaped box-girder deck of the final Severn bridge design . |
| 4 | Much-respected in the racing world , Smiles felt that the role of his office was ‘ Eighty per cent preventative ’ and he was largely responsible for the introduction of the Betting Intelligence Officers squad in September 1984 . |
| 5 | He was largely responsible for organising the supply of machinery and equipment to be fitted in the bare hulls to be built in the yards of British Columbia — an industry which proved to be of vital importance during the Second World War . |
| 6 | In the 1914–1918 War , he was largely responsible for reactivating the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve , and was appointed Commander of the Clyde Division , rising to Commodore in 1921 before retiring in 1927 . |
| 7 | The epic ends with his death in his own city , which he was largely responsible for building . |
| 8 | Together with a French master mason , Alan Maynard , he was largely responsible for remodelling the exterior of the house , and for much internal detail ; in both cases the design , as well as the execution , was probably due to them . |
| 9 | As the senior resident British official on the coast he was largely responsible for the British occupation of Lagos in 1851 and the deposition of King Pepple of Bonny in 1854 . |
| 10 | He was largely responsible for compiling the catalogue of the King 's Library , which was published in five volumes between 1820 and 1829 as Bibliothecae Regiae Catalogus . |
| 11 | He was largely responsible for its recognition in the West : by his pioneering studies in ancient Indian art , such as Indian Sculpture and Painting ( 1908 ) and The Ideals of Indian Art ( 1911 ) ; by encouraging the fledgling Bengal School with sustained writings on its behalf ; and finally by helping to found the India Society with ( Sir ) William Rothenstein [ q.v. ] , for many years the bastion of Indian culture in Europe . |
| 12 | Hatty , Finance Minister in Whitehead 's liberal Cabinet , London-born , is a thoughtful man who has given outstanding service ; he was largely responsible for starting Marimba Township , where Africans working in Salisbury were enabled to build and own their own houses . |
| 13 | He was rather sorry for his father . |
| 14 | The doctor said he needed a rest and he was away ill for three months . |
| 15 | Bettelheim 's outlook was informed by his experiences in the concentration camps of Buchenwald and Dachau in 1938-39 , and he was particularly renowned for his work with severely disturbed and autistic children . |
| 16 | He was either concerned for the lad or thinking up a scheme of his own . |
| 17 | He was ultimately responsible for the emptying of the city , the forced labour in the countryside , the persecution of anyone judged to have been tainted by foreign influences , and the bloody purges of Khmer Rouge cadres suspected of being ‘ Vietnamese traitors ’ . |
| 18 | But at the age of eighteen he was wholly unprepared for the terrors that awaited him . |
| 19 | He was probably responsible for the corrective Gorbachev gave in January last year to his own speech on the 70th anniversary of the revolution in 1987 . |
| 20 | He was collecting for over forty years and , as Miller was a regular recipient of Bartram 's shipments , it can be assumed that ‘ a large proportion of plants credited to Miller as introducer consisted of collections by Bartram and if this is true he was probably responsible for the first appearance in the gardens of England of between one hundred and fifty and two hundred plants ’ ( John Hendley Barnhart , ‘ Significance of John Bartram 's Work to Botanical and Horticultural Knowledge ’ , Bartonia Special Issue , 1931 ) . |
| 21 | Nor did he yet have much of a following elsewhere which he could import into Wales , although he was probably responsible for the arrival in Wales of the Yorkshireman John Pilkington , who served with the duke on the January commission . |
| 22 | Nor did he yet have much of a following elsewhere which he could import into Wales , although he was probably responsible for the arrival in Wales of the Yorkshireman John Pilkington , who served with the duke on the January commission . |
| 23 | David was ambitious for all of us — he was honestly ambitious for all of us and we loved it . |
| 24 | He was notoriously avid for every shilling he could earn . |
| 25 | In our view he was primarily responsible for the fabrication and for what has taken place since . |
| 26 | GRANT took Tottenham in 1987 with a 4,141 majority ; he was already notorious for his comments made after the Broadwater Farm riots in 1985 — ‘ the youths around here believe the police were to blame for what happened on Sunday and what they got was a bloody good hiding ’ . |
| 27 | He was already renowned for his view that ‘ democracy is something to be struggled for , not conferred from above ’ , and as Kelly points out , this doctrine was voiced during the September protests . |
| 28 | At the time , he was equally renowned for his billets doux to Julie de Lespinasse . |
| 29 | The rebuilding of the town of Warwick after the fire presumably provided him with an initial opportunity , and he was later responsible for a further group of churches and other public buildings ; but the predominant element in his practice was the building of country houses for the midlands gentry . |
| 30 | Oh , Shelley , Clive was a nice enough person and he was always good to me , but he was n't right for me , and although I appeared to live happily I used to long for things to be as they were between Felipe and me . |