Example sentences of "[conj] he [vb past] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | After his retirement from the Institut Pasteur , where he lectured for some 50 years , he devoted himself entirely to his cookery studies . |
| 2 | Now Gorman is thinking of moving Reid into midfield where he starred for RBAI . |
| 3 | A member of the Eugenics Education Society , the Clerical and Medical Committee of the BMA — where he campaigned for a stronger moral lead from the profession — and the National Council for Combating Venereal Disease , he moved freely between religious , political and scientific spheres . |
| 4 | The man claims he was then taken to a boat on the Norfolk Broads , where he lived for two weeks , and then spent a week holed-up in a room at an unknown holiday camp . |
| 5 | He did no wilful damage but regarded himself as entitled to go where he wished for the purpose in his mind without regard to the rights of ownership and the alleged presence of man traps and spring guns . |
| 6 | In November of the same year he talked on " The Idiom of Modern Verse " to the Cambridge English Club , where he had for one auditor the appearance of " a very shy , neurotic man " 32 In 1937 he gave an address to the Friends of Rochester Cathedral on religious drama , and lectured on Shakespeare at Edinburgh University he told Lawrence Durrell , however , that he seemed to have spoken about what he himself was interested in doing in the theatre and not about Shakespeare at all.In April 1938 he travelled to Lisbon in order to sit on the jury for the Camoens Prize ; when he came back , he had to address the Friends of Salisbury Cathedral on the poetry of George Herbert and then , two months later , talk on " The Future of Poetic Drama " at an International Theatre Congress in Stratford-upon-Avon . |
| 7 | Of the other leading contenders for honours , Instonians have boosted their squad with the return of Davy Wilson from the French League , where he figured for Amiens , while Irish U-18 Andrew McBride is back at Annadale slotting in for Vincent Devenney ( working in the US ) . |
| 8 | Of the other leading contenders for honours , Instonians have boosted their squad with the return of Davy Wilson from the French League , where he figured for Amiens , while Irish U-18 Andrew McBride is back at Annadale slotting in for Vincent Devenney ( working in the US ) . |
| 9 | The Veterinary Products Committee , where he served for four years , gives advice on food and animal drug issues to the Minister of Agriculture . |
| 10 | His connection with tramways was first established with the Blackburn and Over Darwen steam tramway , where he served for three years . |
| 11 | ( Van , 1896 ) On his return to England my father was appointed to the Consular Service and posted to Taranto in southern Italy , where he served for two years . |
| 12 | After a poor start , at the 10th , where he missed for his three from a mere 18ins , he did not let the birdies escape at the 11th and 12th . |
| 13 | That 's how he started and , in a sense , where he stayed for too long , as a make-up-the-numbers sprinter plodding home through all his early twenties . |
| 14 | He was rushed to the intensive care unit at Liverpool 's Alder Hey Hospital where he stayed for a week before being transferred to a rehabilitation ward . |
| 15 | Mr Bolona is equally welcome in financial circles in North America , where he worked for a time as a consultant on Latin American debt . |
| 16 | Born in Devon in 1954 , Andrew Mudge left school at the age of fifteen and did nine years ' service in the Navy before becoming Gardener for the Trust at Castle Drogo where he worked for seven years . |
| 17 | In 1837 he was apprenticed to his uncle James S. Stirling at Dundee foundry , where he worked for the next six years and where some locomotives were built for the Arbroath and Forfar Railway which influenced his own later designs . |
| 18 | The doctors diagnosed that he had probably had a left-sided embolic stroke , and decided that he did not need surgery , so he was treated on the medical ward , where he remained for about seven months . |
| 19 | Born at Cardross , Dumbartonshire , he lost his hearing in infancy through illness and was admitted at the age of 8 into the Glasgow Institution for the Deaf and Dumb where he remained for seven years . |
| 20 | In 1907 Scott returned to I Tatti where he remained for two years , acting as secretary-librarian to Berenson , by whose intensely aesthetic approach to the study of art he was powerfully influenced . |
| 21 | After training , Glen , accompanied by his wife , went as a missionary to Astrakhan , in southern Russia , where he remained for five years . |
| 22 | In business for himself , first near St Paul 's , but by 1812 firmly established at the Royal Exchange in Cornhill ( where he remained for the rest of his career , apart from an enforced absence during the rebuilding of 1838–44 ) , Wilson became the determined champion of a free press — ‘ It is like the air we breathe ; if we have it not , we die . ’ |
| 23 | Although he qualified for a few regional events , in fact he was aiming much higher : he wanted a crack at the Open Championship . |
| 24 | He injured a knee early in December and , although he played for his club on Saturday , the selectors are not convinced he is ready to return . |
| 25 | Although he lived for eleven more years , he did not stand again . |
| 26 | His house was sacked during the revolt , and he himself was discharged from office ; although he lived for almost twenty years more , he was not reappointed . |
| 27 | Although he ran for office saying that he saw no need to raise taxes , he put them up by $1.8 billion in 1990 , the biggest increase ever seen in his largely affluent , suburban state . |
| 28 | It was fortunate that he was able to swim , although he wondered for a moment about the presence of large predators in the water . |
| 29 | Holland declined to stand for Norfolk in 1679 , although he voted for the exclusionists , and stood unsuccessfully in 1685 as a trimmer . |
| 30 | The original recipients of Hilton 's text , however , as is clear from the very fact that he wrote for them in the vernacular , were not interested in comparative academic study , but in particular guidance which would enable them to fully integrate their religious faith in their lives . |