Example sentences of "[noun sg] he [vb past] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ 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 . |
| 2 | She thought his Catholicism , the emotion he mistook for faith , was a pity . |
| 3 | Without showing any sign of emotion he stood for a while at the head of the bier . |
| 4 | He would accept 20% of these offerings insisting that the bulk he kept for children and dependents . |
| 5 | I asked him what future he foresaw for our civilization . |
| 6 | ‘ He told me to look out of the window — he had stolen my car , the car he bought for me . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Among his patrons was Lord Conway , a wealthy Irish peer whose agent he became for the purchase of rare books in London . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Perhaps he thought powerful attacks on her might produce the result he longed for . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | No , it was not really disgust he felt for people like Alexai Ybreska ; it was pity . |
| 14 | Gong show VIC REEVES , the big lummox , was on television the other night dropping the gong he received for the most original programme . |
| 15 | The 26-year-old University of Natal graduate , credited his god with giving him the concentration he needed for his marathon . |
| 16 | ‘ Ground Reconnaissance From Public Transport ’ is the title of the pamphlet he produced for our last AGM . |
| 17 | Hartlepool was the only candidacy he applied for , or ever intended to . |
| 18 | By the advice of his college he competed for a college research Fellowship , known as the Charles Kingsley Bye-Fellowship . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Now , however , Freud expands that concept as well and interestingly enough he goes back to the first term he used for repression . |
| 22 | The practice he worked for in Bolton , Lancashire , did not notify the area health authority or tell patients of his illness . |
| 23 | Walter climbed in beside him , trying hard not to show the fear he felt for the mechanical monster . |
| 24 | The unnerving grey-green eyes narrowed slightly , and as Tara appeared with a tray he gestured for Virginia to sit at the table , his gaze not leaving her as she reluctantly did so . |
| 25 | One of the founders so admired the puritan he stood for Parliament in 1968 under the banner of the John Hampden New Freedom Party . |
| 26 | It is unfortunate that Dustin did not similarly mime the songs he sings while strumming a guitar ( an instrument he studied for the part ) , because his singing voice is strained and uncomfortably high . |
| 27 | The steersman 's platform , with the huge horizontal rudder bar he used for steering , was right beside them . |
| 28 | To quote the memoirs : ‘ … on Sunday the 4th August 1793 , after having finished the morning duty he always performed in person , of visiting , prescribing for , and superintending the dressing of the wounds of the horses in the infirmary , he sat down to continue his treatise on the outward conformation of the horse , a work he intended for publication : in a short time he informed Mrs. Vial that he felt himself extremely ill complaining of cold to a degree of shivering , attended with a violent headach [ sic ] , and great thirst . |
| 29 | The work he did for his Doctorat de l'Universite , awarded with the citation ‘ bien ’ in 1965 , formed the basis for his first book , The Law Governing Employment in International Organisations ( 1967 ) , which remains a source much used by courts and tribunals including the Hague International Court of Justice . |
| 30 | One of the simplest and most elegant demonstrations of this was by Peter Lawrence , as part of the work he did for a Ph.D at Cambridge . |