Example sentences of "he [verb] for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | He send for one brother , then two brother , then four brother , then for his Mamma to make house for him in New York . |
| 32 | 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 . |
| 33 | ‘ He tried for eight years ! ’ he rasped . |
| 34 | In an attempt to recover prestige and to circumvent the Chancellor he tried for personal contact with King William , hoping desperately that , as he said , ‘ between sovereigns things can be arranged ’ . |
| 35 | At 6.40am he tried for another bearing , but their signal was now so weak , Darwin were unable to comply . |
| 36 | A few years before he died he posed for this effigy , placing the completed picture in his room , adjacent to his bed , as a memento mori . |
| 37 | 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 . |
| 38 | IN THE JUDEO-CHRISTIAN tradition , human beings , closest to God , believed that they had dominion over all His other creatures , which He created for human benefit . |
| 39 | ‘ It is clear that when the section 8(6) procedure comes into operation it is for the police officer to make the decision whether the sample to be provided shall be a sample of blood or urine , but the police officer must convey to the defendant that the sample to be required may be of either blood or urine and must give the defendant an opportunity to consider which sample he would prefer to give if the choice were his and any reasons he has for that preference . |
| 40 | To assist the haulier in making early settlement the creditor , upon receiving a written request , is obliged to give the haulier ( the debtor ) all the information he needs for this purpose . |
| 41 | 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 . |
| 42 | A courteous man , he had an expression that he used for all seasons — ‘ Lovely ! |
| 43 | And there , on the top of his open bag , staring straight at him , was the white notepad he used for issuing prescriptions . |
| 44 | 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 . ’ |
| 45 | In front of the blue-and-white 707 , he stopped for final farewells . |
| 46 | Feeling a little frightened of the dead body behind him in the cart , and depressed by the autumn fog , he stopped for some beer at a pub , where he met Jan Coggan and Laban Tall . |
| 47 | He adds for good measure that the public-sector deficit would be wiped out if the country stopped paying its foreign debts . |
| 48 | He entered for all parts of the competition and submitted twenty-one drawings . |
| 49 | His written work is average , he entered for 0-level English this year and obtained a C grade . |
| 50 | After the latter match there was a flurry of interest in him from Football League clubs and Fred soon signed for Northampton , where he played for seven seasons before moving to Palace in February 1936 . |
| 51 | And he played for old Mrs Lark . |
| 52 | Deeply troubled by this experience , he sailed for Latin America in the late summer of 1886 in an attempt to save the firm . |
| 53 | An incident at dinner on Sunday night became part of the Reverend Mr Grant 's conversational furniture , a story he told for many years later . |
| 54 | He appealed for international support for Ukraine 's claim to an equivalent proportion of Soviet assets abroad , and criticized the inter-republican agreement of Dec. 5 on the division of debt , which Ukraine had refused to sign [ see p. 38656 ] . |
| 55 | He had given a speech earlier in the year on the subject of ‘ Constitution Reform in Trinidad and Tobago ’ , at the end of which he appealed for mass action and now he was testing the dedication and organisational abilities of his P.E.G . |
| 56 | Inspector Graham Cox , of Sussex police , said the cause of the accident was still being investigated and he appealed for any witnesses to come forward . |
| 57 | He suffered for 10 days and died on 14 March . |
| 58 | Sonny has a number of different slides he uses for different occasions . |
| 59 | But never had he felt for any woman the things he felt for Julia Gillingham . |
| 60 | Then he drove for 45 minutes to a deserted spot and raped her before dumping his sobbing victim in the village of Cheriton , near Winchester , Hants — 10 miles from where he first struck . |