Example sentences of "he [verb] for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Like Shujan he has had his training setbacks but Armstrong has shrewdly got enough runs into him to go for this handicap and his recent home form suggests it is worth taking a chance with him as he is on the upgrade . |
| 2 | When I got home , I kept him in for a while , then , ashtray at the ready , let him loose for another try . |
| 3 | The court discussed the example of a solicitor 's clerk and said that in such a case it would be improper for him to work for another solicitor in his spare time . |
| 4 | The injury is likely to keep him sidelined for two months . |
| 5 | In which case she might just as well be punctual for their mutually unwelcome assignation , rather than give him cause for further sarcasm at her expense ! |
| 6 | Not content with Mont Blanc , last year found him searching for another challenge . |
| 7 | She could almost see him searching for another string of quips if Jessica would not thaw to the first attempt . |
| 8 | His stature increased and with such international renown it was natural for him to serve for two years , 1970–2 , as the President of the International Society of Electrochemistry . |
| 9 | But if you hear him speak for five minutes you think no more of them . |
| 10 | Jaq switched on the magnetics in his boots to give him purchase for possible combat . |
| 11 | ( i ) Does the applicant have a sufficient interest within R.S.C. , Ord. 53 , r. 3(7) to entitle him to apply for judicial review ? ( ii ) Is the exercise by Lautro of its power to serve an intervention notice subject to judicial review ? ( iii ) Is , or was , Winchester a member of Lautro ? ( iv ) Whether or not Winchester was a member of Lautro , did it have a right to appeal under Lautro 's rules to the Appeal Tribunal ? ( v ) Did the failure by Lautro to give Winchester an opportunity to make representations before the service of the intervention notice invalidate that notice so that it should be quashed ? |
| 12 | Lily could think only of him paying for little girls . |
| 13 | ‘ Either you increase my husband 's wages to reflect the work he does on your behalf , or I might find it my duty to persuade him to look for other employment , perhaps with one of the many property owners hereabouts . ’ |
| 14 | I said that someone in Montefiore 's position should check his facts before sounding off , and advised him to campaign for more resources all round instead of trying to trade one disadvantaged group off against another . |
| 15 | At Mr Banzer 's closing rally in La Paz , many Bolivians defied the cold to hear him call for higher taxes on the rich and more efficiency in government : ‘ We will tighten the government 's belt and loosen the belt on the people . ’ |
| 16 | She heard him reach for another sandwich . |
| 17 | I suppose I put it to him hoping for some response . |
| 18 | If Vecchi had been to the apartment and got what he wanted before killing Mahoney , there was no need for him to return for another look round . |
| 19 | He faces , as well as an increasingly bad-tempered party , a pesky opposition noisily pressing him to push for Taiwanese independence . |
| 20 | There was a momentary silence during which she could imagine him rallying for another attack . |
| 21 | I think I had not heard him cry for six years . |
| 22 | It traces Alfie 's career on the field with Downpatrick and Ireland and his rise to the top of officialdom 's tree , highlighting the impact he made for essential change in promoting the game and in the need for better communication . |
| 23 | It traces Alfie 's career on the field with Downpatrick and Ireland and his rise to the top of officialdom 's tree , highlighting the impact he made for essential change in promoting the game and in the need for better communication . |
| 24 | It features new stone sculptures intended to be shown outdoors as well as in the gallery , a new red ‘ Void ’ from that continuing series of wall sculptures , one of which was shown in Kapoor 's pavilion at the Venice Biennale in 1990 , and material related to the stage designs which he made for recent performances by dancer Laurie Booth at the Queen Elizabeth Hall . |
| 25 | Muttering incomprehensibly , he made for some bushes where he disappeared from Emily 's view . |
| 26 | He got him to hospital and the doctors said that he lived for 70 minutes , but he was dead by the time we got there . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | He lived for many years at Brockham , Betchworth , Surrey , and died there 10 April 1935 . |
| 29 | He lived for twenty years with the family as a lodger with meals included : ‘ he had a home with us , all those years . ’ |
| 30 | And while Toff claims his techniques are very much part of the English slipware tradition , his pots often look like something out of Africa , where he lived for several years . |