Example sentences of "he be [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 31 | As Jo Grimond he was MP for Orkney and Shetland for thirty-three years and was seen as the last traditional Liberal . |
| 32 | He was MP for Cirencester and Tewkesbury for 33 years , holding posts in the Foreign Office , Treasury and Department of Trade , Transport and Environment . |
| 33 | He was MP for Glasgow Central for nine years . |
| 34 | He was JP for West Sussex from 1640 until his death , and was elected MP for Midhurst in a by-election to the Long Parliament in 1645 , his fellow-MP being William Cawley the regicide [ q.v . ] . |
| 35 | Guests included a large gathering of colleagues , both present and past , and representative of Jim 's earlier days in the Chief Accountant 's , Securities and Ledger Department , and Drumsheugh Branch , where he was Manager for four years . |
| 36 | Field , who has doctorate in micropalaeontology , arrived in Angola from Milan where he was manager for BP Italy . |
| 37 | That was not all : he was quartermaster for the army and when Ferdinand II could no longer pay his bills , Wallenstein was given leave to create his own mint , a privilege normally unique to the emperor . |
| 38 | He cleared his throat , casting about for something to say which would indicate that though he was game for anything , he nonetheless knew how to keep his hands to himself . |
| 39 | If I said I needed a member of the cast to be doused with a bucket of water , he would be the first to volunteer ; he was game for anything . |
| 40 | Oh yes , and he could get executor , he was executor for one poor old lady old Mrs used to live on the causeway er er er , the first little house you know where the th th , er you 're coming this way on the causeway there 's The Elms , ai n't they ? |
| 41 | He founded two cycling associations — the North Road Cycling Club and Cyclists ' Road Records Association , of which he was President for nearly 30 years — an unique achievement for a deaf man in a mainly hearing organisation . |
| 42 | In 1846 he joined the committee of the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society , of which he was president for eighteen years , and immediately came to public attention as principal signer of a set of ‘ resolutions and a memorial [ to MPs ] adopted at a meeting of gentlemen deputed from various parts of the United Kingdom to represent the sentiments of the inhabitants in their respective districts , on the subject of colonial slavery ’ . |
| 43 | In the twentieth century er the president who did most to , to develop the office further was , was Franklin Roosevelt , Theodore 's cousin er and Franklin Roosevelt , who became president in , in the nineteen thirties and the time of the great depression , and remained president for , till nineteen forty five so He was president for thirteen years er and his political opponents were so upset by this that they actually amended the constitution afterwards to prevent any future president from serving more than two terms of as president , so eight years is the maximum that anyone can serve as president . |
| 44 | He spent all his spare time at the Hampstead house now , not only from a liking for the work he was doing for Paul , and Paul himself , but for the sight , the nearness , of Dinah . |
| 45 | In 1947 , in addition to the work he was doing for Lehmann , Minton illustrated two books for Paul Elek — Treasure Island and The Wanderer , an English translation of Alain-Fournier 's Le Grand Meaulnes . |
| 46 | After a few drinks Shildon had mentioned the work he was doing for Eliot . |
| 47 | After all he was doing for her , she had virtually accused him of trying to seduce her . |
| 48 | She was too old for a doll 's house now so it did n't matter , but she hoped he would finish what he was doing for Oliver . |
| 49 | Disenchanted with the way society had changed and their own place in it , again like many of their kind , they looked to Hitler as a role model , admired what he was doing for Germany . |
| 50 | Mr Wallace 's shadow lies heavily across the state where he was governor for four terms and where his wife Lurleen ( who has a museum to herself , complete with wax mannequins wearing her clothes ) was governor for one . |
| 51 | In a sort of roundabout way , he was fishing for information about her habits , and attitude to boys . |
| 52 | Back in civilian life he was foreman for a Darlington decorating firm , Jack Stead , and the couple moved into the town 's Rockingham Street . |