Example sentences of "[Wh det] he [vb past] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed , some of his most effective imagery in The Four Quartets was based on the underground , which he patronized for reasons of speed , economy , and no doubt of experiencing the frisson of imagining himself consigned to perdition . |
| 2 | Perfect Strangers ( 1945 ) , which he directed for MGM , seemed glib in its presentation of the changes war had brought to a married couple , changing him from timid clerk to authoritarian naval officer , and her from drab housewife to confident member of the WRNS , but the film was popular nevertheless . |
| 3 | He had given a speech earlier in the year on the subject of ‘ Constitution Reform in Trinidad and Tobago ’ , at the end of which he appealed for mass action and now he was testing the dedication and organisational abilities of his P.E.G . |
| 4 | King Moshoeshoe , prior to his removal from power , had paid a two-day state visit to Zimbabwe on Oct. 28-29 , 1989 , during which he appealed for aid to help reduce Lesotho 's economic dependence on South Africa . |
| 5 | Following the Emperor 's address , Prime Minister Toshiki Kaifu read a congratulatory statement on behalf of the Japanese people in which he appealed for the construction of a country which was energetic , culturally rich and dedicated to the promotion of international peace and co-operation . |
| 6 | The same auctioneer set a world record on 22 June for a Louis XV commode by Jacques Dubois which he sold for FFr1.4 million ( £148,936 ; $282,978 ) . |
| 7 | Lee , 49 , who built up a paper recycling business which he sold for more than £8 million and has since developed several other companies , says he wants to make Manchester City the top club in the country . |
| 8 | Other national platforms for his views and activities were the Council of Church Missioners to the Deaf and Dumb , of which he was chairman from 1927 for eighteen years ; the Central Advisory Council for the Spiritual Care of the Deaf and Dumb on which he served for forty-four years , and the Joint Examination Board ( later renamed " The Deaf Welfare Examination Board " ) of which he was a founder member . |
| 9 | I am sorry that the Secretary of State was not in the Chamber when the hon. Gentleman ended by saying that his last ambition in politics was to abolish the Department in which he served for eight years . |
| 10 | His letter contained an account of all the birds he had seen : a common goatsucker that flew gracefully round and round the ship for an hour , although it had ‘ in all probability passed the night on the wing ’ ; a female yellow wagtail that alighted only for a moment ; numerous petrels , five of which he killed for himself , and one for use in Mr Yarrell 's work ( a History of British Birds ) ; a flight of swallows , and several small turtle doves , which ‘ visited the ship [ and ] went off again immediately ’ ; a kestrel which was killed ‘ from off the Rigging ’ ; a short-eared owl which flew on board during the night , was caught and kept alive for several days ; and hundreds of shearwaters , which surrounded the ship off Madeira and the Salvage Rocks . |
| 11 | Educated at Leeds Grammar School , he graduated in classics and divinity at Trinity College , Dublin , in 1904 , after which he taught for two years at a school in West Kirby in Liverpool . |
| 12 | But he did n't even wait to hear her protests that she was all right , and came back a minute later with two hospital pillows which he arranged for her , and she thought the faintly male , musky and intensely sensual smell of him as he bent over her was making her more faint than loss of blood . |
| 13 | Their small mission accomplished , Tennyson and Hallam sank back to being tourists , and Tennyson never forgot the scenery around Cauterets , which he associated for the rest of his long life with the happiness he had felt when travelling there with the beloved but now dead Hallam . |
| 14 | John was full of invention , always making up steps and sequences which he called by odd names : for instance a stamping step he called ‘ Sherman tanks ’ , which he devised for the zephyrs in Primavera and used again for the unicorns in Harlequin in April . |
| 15 | He used the complete gamut of his voice , from a growl like a dog warning its master that it has a sore foot to a high , exalted monotone which he kept for perorations ; and when he was using the words of an Old Testament lament , Isaiah or Zephaniah , to make a piteous effect , he had been known to put his head back and yowl like a tom-cat . |
| 16 | He managed this with the help of a flannel , some scented soap from England which he kept for special occasions and a kettleful of hot water that took five minutes to boil on the single electric ring that served as a cooker and , in winter , as a heater . |
| 17 | His friends say the van , which he kept for two years until he turned professional in 1954 , helped teach him more about comedy than anything else . |
| 18 | Sotheby 's B shares carry ten votes each and this , of course , will enable Taubman to retain control of the auction house which he purchased for £80 million in 1983 , unless the bank forecloses on the debt of Mr Taubman 's affiliate ( assumed to be his investments in the troubled retailing sectors ) for which 11 million of his Sotheby 's B shares stand guaranty . |
| 19 | His favourite places to be were the chestnut leaf table and the top of the mahogany tallboy under the landing window on which he lay for hours , staring at the peaks and plateaux of the moor . |
| 20 | I wrote to a prospective customer of the OALDCE 3/e Electronic on 19 May and faxed to you his letter in which he asked for a copy of the tape suitable for running on an AT&T machine . |
| 21 | The only douceur which he asked for and obtained was 11 Downing Street . |
| 22 | While one takes into account the concern of Calvin and the reformers for the balance between the light of scripture and the inner light and direction given to individuals an experience vouchsafe for countless times in both the Old and New Testaments also remembering our lord 's own use of silence in prayer and I believe the increasing use of silence in modern worship and may I also say how very impressed I was by Dr 's prayer at the opening of this assembly in which he asked for the guidance of God and indeed your own equally eloquent prayer on Sunday evening Moderator open to the prompting and leading and guiding of God 's spirit . |
| 23 | On the contrary , there was a curious , rather unnatural gentleness about the way in which he waited for them to come nearer . |
| 24 | This article was followed by a reply from BC 's finance director , in which he argued for the appropriateness of the Board 's accounting policies . |
| 25 | Two of them , which he wrote for Winchester College , ‘ Awake my soul and with the sun ’ and ‘ Glory to Thee , my God this night ’ were to become among the best-known hymns of the Church . |
| 26 | Davidson , who was of course a committed partisan of Baldwin 's , but a sufficiently skilful one to couch his arguments in moderate terms , probably got nearest to the nub of Curzon 's failings in a memorandum which he wrote for Stamfordham and through hint for the King . |
| 27 | In the editorial which he wrote for the last issue , he discussed the general political situation which had provoked in him a depression of spirit so different from anything he had experienced in the last fifty years as " to be a new emotion " ; but he also confessed to a feeling of staleness as editor . |
| 28 | That Minton had responded on many levels is evident not only from his paintings but also from an illustrated article which he wrote for Vogue . |
| 29 | The ‘ special areas ’ legislation of the prewar national coalition government stemmed partly from a series of unsigned articles — ‘ Places without a Future ’ — which he wrote for The Times in 1934 . |
| 30 | Stoker then volunteered as unpaid dramatic critic of the Dublin Mail , for which he wrote for five years while retaining his clerkship . |