Example sentences of "[noun sg] he [be] [vb pp] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 's got five in six games for Newcastle this season and has scored at every club he 's played for . |
| 2 | Cyril Hollinshead has never been renowned for his batting — but he has taken almost 700 wickets for Gloucestershire Gipsies , the club he 's played for since 1938 . |
| 3 | As a result he was suspended for two years , which of course delayed his entry into first-class cricket ; but it taught him a lot . |
| 4 | At a later interview he was asked for what the Nobel had been awarded ; Eliot replied that he assumed it was for " the entire corpus " and the reporter asked , " When did you publish that ? " |
| 5 | After his return he was sent for by the Mamluk sultan who wished to learn from him the state of affairs in Rum ; and he entered Cairo on either 4 Safar 823/19 February 1420 ( Ibn Hajar and al-Sayrafi ) or Tuesday 4 Rabi'I 823/Tuesday 19 March 1420 ( al-Makrizi . |
| 6 | Is it not time the hon. Gentleman did the job he is paid for and stood up for British sport ? |
| 7 | Now he was doing the job he was trained for , treating real patients . |
| 8 | ‘ The point is , ’ he continued firmly , ‘ if Kemp is locked up he obviously is n't going to be available to do the job he was hired for . |
| 9 | Having looked at the studio from the outside he was prepared for squalor , but a basic orderliness surprised him . |
| 10 | Then one day he was sent for by the refining director and given twenty-four hours to make up his mind about a posting to the United States . |
| 11 | The same actor , Tom Courtenay , plays the Borstal boy in Tony Richardson 's The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner ( 1962 ) who loses the race he 's trained for as a way to spite the governor . |
| 12 | Juul was undefeated by an opponent in his four scheduled rides although in heat 13 when he came out for an extra race he was disqualified for unfair riding when bringing down Donny Odom and Steve Regeling . |
| 13 | 11 weeks on , Stephen Thomas is n't being allowed to forget the night he was scarred for life . |
| 14 | And at the end of this week he was braced for another blow : the Supreme Court was set to announce whether he would face impeachment proceedings on embezzlement charges . |
| 15 | Throughout his career he was noted for the calm , far-sighted judgement which , combined with appreciation of scholarship , made him such an outstanding administrator . |
| 16 | Back here , his chance at Edgbaston , where last season he was selected for only a couple of first-class fixtures , came because Dermot Reeve was injured . |
| 17 | It was a move that clearly suited him for the following season he was picked for the county squad . |
| 18 | A path of accommodation with the Soviet authorities was widely assessed as having ensured his rise through the Church hierarchy from 1949 ; as Patriarch he was criticized for failing to challenge the repressive state regulations governing church affairs and to defend persecuted believers . |
| 19 | Yet in everyday dress he was noted for the simplicity of his clothing , and for not setting himself apart from his nobles in appearance . |
| 20 | I pulled him away and tried to get him upstairs in case he was traumatized for life , but he kicked me in the balls . |
| 21 | Last year he was selected for the World Quadriathlon Championships at Salinas Bay in Ibiza . |
| 22 | It means Jim Courier retains the pole position he 's held for all but 12 weeks of 1992 . |
| 23 | In his design he is credited for seeing that ‘ auditorium planning need not be inconsistent with good architecture ’ . |
| 24 | In the upper section he is prepared for his beheading and there is a fine Salome ; below , in the vase of the pulpit , the saint preaches and baptizes Christ in the River Jordan . |
| 25 | At the same time he is blamed for allowing the incident to arise when it is usually inconceivable that he could have prevented it . |
| 26 | He has virtually no ball skills whatsoever , and has been completely anonymous every time he 's played for England . |
| 27 | He told immigration authorities he was on holiday and was admitted for 11 days during which time he was treated for typhoid and genital ulcers . |
| 28 | Like any Eastern potentate he was celebrated for his wives . |