Example sentences of "[noun] he [vb past] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | It took Ray years to discover the mix of speedwork and mile repetitions he needed for improving his race times . |
| 2 | and I was gon na go and apply for but then Neil he sent for me and just asked me , just told me there was a job come up in the office and if I wanted it |
| 3 | ‘ Until very recently the bedroom he intended for Inez and himself was fully furnished , the bed made , pyjamas laid out , fresh flowers and a ticking clock on the bedside table . |
| 4 | When he graduated Hugo took a succession of low-paid jobs in 7th Avenue and the optimism with which he had set out began to be dimmed by the sheer sick-making banality of what he had to do — cutting samples in the disgusting fabrics with which the greedy cutthroat manufacturers he worked for made their living . |
| 5 | She thought his Catholicism , the emotion he mistook for faith , was a pity . |
| 6 | Without showing any sign of emotion he stood for a while at the head of the bier . |
| 7 | He would accept 20% of these offerings insisting that the bulk he kept for children and dependents . |
| 8 | I asked him what future he foresaw for our civilization . |
| 9 | ‘ He told me to look out of the window — he had stolen my car , the car he bought for me . |
| 10 | The character of X. Trapnel , for which he served as model , in Anthony Powell 's A Dance to the Music of Time ( 12 vols. , 1951–75 ) gives an impression of the persona he created for himself . |
| 11 | Among his patrons was Lord Conway , a wealthy Irish peer whose agent he became for the purchase of rare books in London . |
| 12 | Then , during his three years in exile he came for the first time into close contact with the main exponents of the Gregorian ideal , and we must ask how far and in what circumstances he adopted the phraseology of the Gregorian reformers ; then , whether he adopted the theoretical structure which their favourite phrase libertas ecclesiae expressed , or adopted the phrase for use only in exceptional circumstances and for special reasons . |
| 13 | After that result he disappeared for a short while , but he returned in time to be included in Wilson 's government , initially as Secretary of State for Economic Affairs , a post he held between 1964 and 1966 . |
| 14 | Perhaps he thought powerful attacks on her might produce the result he longed for . |
| 15 | He and Tasker were chosen by Bonington to be members of the 1982 British Everest Expedition , and shortly before he left Leysin he wrote for the Parents ' Association Newsletter an account of his schooldays , affectionately remembered : |
| 16 | On the advice of Lyell and Hooker he arranged for an account of his own theory to be published alongside Wallace 's paper by the Linnean Society of London . |
| 17 | No , it was not really disgust he felt for people like Alexai Ybreska ; it was pity . |
| 18 | Gong show VIC REEVES , the big lummox , was on television the other night dropping the gong he received for the most original programme . |
| 19 | The 26-year-old University of Natal graduate , credited his god with giving him the concentration he needed for his marathon . |
| 20 | ‘ Ground Reconnaissance From Public Transport ’ is the title of the pamphlet he produced for our last AGM . |
| 21 | Hartlepool was the only candidacy he applied for , or ever intended to . |
| 22 | Despite the fact that David was expelled in the third form for dissing the gym teacher who confiscated his Uzi and broke his crack-peddling ring , he still feels enough loyalty to the old alma mater not to drag its name through the mud by engaging the lads he fagged for in a ‘ naughty-word ’ style debate . |
| 23 | By the advice of his college he competed for a college research Fellowship , known as the Charles Kingsley Bye-Fellowship . |
| 24 | . they were the last words he spoke for 2 and a half years |
| 25 | In the duets he cheated for her , sang some of her more difficult phrases with her to drown her inadequacies , and frequently stopped the piano to suggest changes of key . |
| 26 | Unlike the role it played in the IFL , political anti-semitism never became a total ideological explanation of all the imagined ills of British society for most of the official leadership of the BUF , though there were obvious exceptions like William Joyce and some of the speakers he trained for the East End campaign of 1935 — 7 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Mr Major believes the concessions he won for Denmark 's Premier Poul Schluter can deliver a yes vote . |
| 29 | When it got dark he looked for somewhere else to sit and went to the back of the aircraft by way of the communication tunnel , but quickly got bored . |
| 30 | Now , however , Freud expands that concept as well and interestingly enough he goes back to the first term he used for repression . |