Example sentences of "[noun] he [verb] for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | COMIC Lenny Henry rivals the grin on the trophy he won for best TV comedy at the Radio Times Comedy and Drama Awards in London yesterday . |
| 2 | During municipal elections last December he pushed for direct elections , in place of the old system of lists controlled by party bosses . |
| 3 | To which he uttered the classic comment , in the more than usually low drawl he employed for such deliverances : ‘ There 's always bound … to be a certain amount of iniquity … in these matters ’ . |
| 4 | 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 ’ . |
| 5 | After the war he served for 30 years in the history section of the |
| 6 | In 1935 he became literary editor of the Listener , a post he held for twenty-four years . |
| 7 | His thinking also took account of limited human rationality on the question of responsibility for offences ; unlike Beccaria he allowed for mitigating circumstances such as duress , infancy and insanity to reduce or even remove an individual 's liability to punishment . |
| 8 | A MAN caught drinking and driving was so anxious about his punishment he absconded for six months , a court heard yesterday . |
| 9 | A strain of independent socialist thinking runs through his courses , pamphlets , and articles for Plebs , the NCL journal he edited for many years . |
| 10 | Do you know the share he bought for ten p each last week went down to three and a half pence each . |
| 11 | At that time he travelled on a little inter-island plane to the northerly island of Westray to teach for two days a week ; for a while he taught for two days on the island of Sanday as well . |
| 12 | This stopped the hiccups and calmed him down , and that night he slept for sixteen hours . |
| 13 | It traces Alfie 's career on the field with Downpatrick and Ireland and his rise to the top of officialdom 's tree , highlighting the impact he made for essential change in promoting the game and in the need for better communication . |
| 14 | It traces Alfie 's career on the field with Downpatrick and Ireland and his rise to the top of officialdom 's tree , highlighting the impact he made for essential change in promoting the game and in the need for better communication . |
| 15 | Under cross-examination he denied his evidence was tainted by any bitterness he held for British soldiers because he had been jailed in 1968 for five years in Manchester for assault . |
| 16 | He is known to have been angry last autumn when Mr Mazowiecki , the man he picked for prime minister , chose his cabinet without consulting him . |
| 17 | Dr Fitzhugh admits that the prices he pays for commissioned prices are well below market value ; but few artists turn down the opportunity for such excellent exposure . |
| 18 | And there , on the top of his open bag , staring straight at him , was the white notepad he used for issuing prescriptions . |
| 19 | We can see no merit in repeating here the reasons he gave for that decision since he pronounced his findings in that case in public , pursuant to rule 11(2) of the Hearings before the Visitors Rules 1991 , and the reasons were complex . |
| 20 | ‘ 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | After the election I am sure any enthusiasm he shows for this issue will disappear as quickly as he will . |
| 23 | Mr Steinkühler 's dealings enrage the two groups he served for different reasons . |
| 24 | In that innings he batted for 292 minutes , facing 257 balls and hitting 14 fours . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Like so many of the visitors , though he was dressed in the bright overalls of the Men he stared for long periods into the Cages , but it seemed to Creggan that his staring was different from the others and less cruel . |
| 27 | Among the thousands of press cuttings he collected for possible inclusion in the dossier is the following story , clipped from L'Opinion nationale of June 20th , 1863 : |
| 28 | On Sunday he played squash and on weekday mornings he jogged for twenty minutes before work . |
| 29 | One of the consequences he claims for this theory is the disappearance of ideas ‘ to the precise extent that it has emerged that their existence is inscribed in the actions of practices governed by rituals defined in the last instance by an ideological apparatus ’ ( Althusser 1971 : 159 ) . |
| 30 | General Charles de Gaulle was elected President of France , in 1958 , a position he held for eleven years . |