Example sentences of "he [verb] for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 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 .
3 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 .
4 Muttering incomprehensibly , he made for some bushes where he disappeared from Emily 's view .
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 He lived for many years at Brockham , Betchworth , Surrey , and died there 10 April 1935 .
8 He lived for twenty years with the family as a lodger with meals included : ‘ he had a home with us , all those years . ’
9 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 .
10 Miguel joins us direct from BARCELONA , where he lived for several months .
11 He plays for Western Suburbs against Newcastle in Sunday 's Winfield Cup play-offs .
12 A player joining a new club during the close season or after the season starts will have to wait 30 days if joining a club two leagues higher or lower before he plays for that club in a Courage league game or 120 days if joining a club on the same level or one league higher or lower before he plays for that in a league game ; he waits 180 days if he is not a British passport holder .
13 The congregation usually watched him with a perverse relish which he mistook for devout attention , but this Sunday afternoon there was palpably an added curiosity to see how well he managed to live down the shaming comedy he had enacted on horseback a few days before .
14 There was such regret , such a bleakness in his eyes that Lissa turned away , her soul crying out in anguish because it was plain for anyone to see how much he cared for this woman who had betrayed him .
15 He goes for long walks , ’ said Betty mundanely .
16 In 1920 Birkenhead put forward both lines of argument when he argued for greater coalition cooperation in the press .
17 He fought for higher oil revenues to finance this and the development programmes that would transform Iran 's economy .
18 I was ashamed that I 'd written a reference for him when he applied for that job .
19 When he applied for judicial review he did not know whether his tariff exceeded 20 years , but on 10 April 1990 his solicitors were informed by the Home Office that it did not .
20 Albert was so distressed by the whole affair that he applied for another post further away from the scene of the tragedy .
21 In 1959 , three years after he applied for German papers under his own name at the German embassy , he fled to Paraguay as the Frankfurt authorities issued the first warrant for his arrest .
22 ‘ Following the elections there has been less high profile security presence in the area , ’ he said , adding that some time ago he asked for extra security measures for the town .
23 He asked for that camera for his birthday this year . ’
24 He asked for seven offences to be considered .
25 He asked for streamlined procedures to sift out frivolous applications and allow individual board members greater discretion to reduce the number of full hearings .
26 Eventually he was taken into the West Sussex hospital and when Mr Smith visited him , he asked for some chlorodyne .
27 The Wisconsin state authorities feel that they have lost enough money on Steve Chen 's dreams — his failed Supercomputer Systems Inc received $75m in incentives from to establish its operations in Eau Claire , and they showed Chen the door when he asked for another $5m to get his fledgling SuperComputers International Inc off the ground in Eau Claire .
28 Sir Rhodes urged Mr Patten to reduce poll tax levels in London by imposing a cap of £300 per adult , and he asked for special help for those people living in low rateable value homes built between 1860 and 1930 .
29 In his note he asked for medical help — some vitamins , eye-drops , ‘ as I ca n't go out ’ — and for some money .
30 An Oxford rugby blue in 1959 and 1960 and a keen sailor , Sir Robin , 54 , is remembered by many Whitehall contemporaries as the shrewd captain of the Mandarins cricket team which he led for many years .
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