Example sentences of "he [vb past] [to-vb] for " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | There were other , smaller tasks which he wished to complete : when he had finished the play , he planned to revise for publication the lectures which he had given on education at the University of Chicago . |
| 2 | He drew up a very elaborate Writer 's Guide to explain what he had in mind to the authors he planned to canvass for Doctor Who . |
| 3 | ‘ You 've got to be kidding ! ’ yelped Margaret Lenham , as much astonished as afraid at the sight of what he planned to use for the operation : a knitting needle . |
| 4 | The Sinn Fein man claimed two plain-clothes men approached Mr Fox in Thomas Street , Dungannon on September 2 and promised him a new house if he agreed to work for them . |
| 5 | It was normal , moreover , as in earlier generations , for a diplomat going to one of the more out-of-the-way capitals , if he expected to stay for any length of time , to equip himself with a mass of essentials which might be difficult or impossible to obtain at his destination . |
| 6 | He eventually sold the properties for £5 million — half of what he originally told shareholders he expected to get for them . |
| 7 | If Labov 's interpretations were suspect ( and of course they are not ) , this would not arise from the fact that he failed to test for significance . |
| 8 | He failed to allow for the fact that Lucasta Redburn could not bear to throw away anything that might one day come in useful . |
| 9 | A police search is under way for a businessman accused of attempting to export a military camera to the Soviet Union after he failed to appear for committal proceedings at Rugby Magistrates Court . |
| 10 | Rather than reject Marxism on the grounds that it had been disproved by history , as Merleau-ponty had done , he sought to account for Stalinism through a dialectical analysis of the specific history of the Soviet Union since the Revolution : theory and practice , he argued , had become separated with the result that the former had become ‘ sclerosed ’ while the latter had become ‘ blind ’ and ‘ unprincipled ’ ( I , 50 ) . |
| 11 | The leader of the opposition National Democratic Party of Georgia ( NDPG ) , Georgi Chanturia , was arrested at Tbilisi airport as he tried to leave for Moscow on Sept. 16 , together with his wife Irina Sarishvili and another NDPG leader Vakhtang Talakhadze ( who was released the following day ) . |
| 12 | He tried to reach for his sword but could not . |
| 13 | He tried to relax for the first time . |
| 14 | He even ran up some fake City of Westminster chestnut licences and it would have been a laugh but he tried to charge for them . |
| 15 | The next day he tried to beg for money , but large signs in some villages warned him that anyone caught begging would be sent to prison . |
| 16 | He tried to shout for help , but was too weak to raise even the feeblest of cries . |
| 17 | He tried to run for help straight after the crash but then he saw Jason on the road and collapsed with the shock . |
| 18 | He was sitting just a matter of inches away , when he moved to reach for a coffee-cup she caught the smell of freshly washed hair , and her fingers itched with the memory of tangling themselves in those jet-black waves . |
| 19 | In 1990 he moved to work for Wimpey Minerals in the US as chief financial officer . |
| 20 | His ‘ serialism ’ , however , the theory he provided to account for them , failed to convince scientists that it fused with the new physics . |
| 21 | At a corner he stopped to wait for a break in the traffic . |
| 22 | William Joyce did the same , without such assistance , and entered his name for Battersea Polytechnic , where he proposed to study for the intermediate examination of the London University BSc degree . |
| 23 | He prepared to work for his father in the building trade , or even go back to college . |
| 24 | It was not until the following summer that Cadwallon surprised Osric 's forces and slew the Deiran leader , thereafter ravaging widely across Anglian territory and slaying Eanfrith when he came to sue for peace ( HE 111 , 1 ) . |
| 25 | Of course he came to rescue us , of course he came to die for us , but he was not a sin offering to God because he was sinless . |
| 26 | I imagine he had dreamed of doing what he came to do for years before he tightened up his courage . ’ |
| 27 | Soon after the Second World War , in which he worked with ENSA ( or ‘ Every-Night-Something-Awful ’ , as he called it ) , he came to work for the music publishing firm of R. Smith and Co Ltd and served as editor of British Bandsman ( the brass band world 's leading newspaper since 1887 ) for 15 years . |
| 28 | He came to work for my company in Avignon as an assistant in the overseas purchasing department . |
| 29 | He seemed to hesitate for a moment . |
| 30 | He seemed to hesitate for a moment . |