Example sentences of "for which he [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus he acknowledges the source of his prosperity , and claims to be unworthy of the deliverance for which he pleads . |
| 2 | Despite his intensive activity on both bibliographical and scholarly fronts , he wrote numerous other works and started a series of facsimiles of the printed sources of western art , for which he collected both books and water-colours . |
| 3 | This perhaps accounts for the gout from which he suffered in 1771 and for which he collected prescriptions from friends . |
| 4 | He is quite brazenly staging a public spectacle — a spectacle for which he knew he would either have been stigmatised as an upstart and a blasphemer , or acknowledged as precisely what he claimed to be . |
| 5 | The chief preoccupation of Methuen 's later years , apart from his painting , and one for which he denied himself many luxuries , was the restoration , maintenance , and improvement of Corsham Court , the family seat , and of the collection of pictures which hung in the magnificent gallery built and furnished for them in the 1760s . |
| 6 | The work dearest to his heart was the development of the Retreat House at Wydale Hall near Scarborough , for which he made money available , encouraged the nuns , Sisters of the Holy Paraclete , who ran it , and was grateful when he saw more and more people go there to say their prayers . |
| 7 | Back in Ireland he continued with his duties at the Society for which he made mineralogical tours of Galway and Mayo ( 1825 ) , Donegal ( 1826 ) , Antrim , Down , and Londonderry ( 1828 ) , and Londonderry and Tyrone ( 1829 ) . |
| 8 | Towards the end of his life he was an enthusiastic supporter of British involvement in the war of 1914–18 , for which he made recruiting speeches . |
| 9 | Locke 's contemporaries often criticized his continual talk of ‘ ideas ’ , for which he apologized . |
| 10 | Where the person applying for a Certificate of Judgment is not a party , he must state in writing with particulars the purpose for which he requires the Certificate of Judgment and the capacity in which he applies and must satisfy the district judge that the application may properly be granted . |
| 11 | The one area of basic science that the president passed over in his new budget was biomedical research , for which he recommended a mere token increase of $71 million atop its current annual fund of approximately $4000 million . |
| 12 | But Anselm may have shared their disappointment : the tasks for which he felt the full weight of personal responsibility were very harassing , and his success in performing them was open to serious doubt . |
| 13 | Hypnosis in this case relieved the patient 's negative mind set and is in line with Dr Bach 's thesis that such mental states , for which he developed his flower remedies , could impair the body 's ability to heal itself . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | He obtained the next job for which he applied and , as far as I know , has had a successful career subsequently . |
| 16 | I presume that the hon. Gentleman thought it right to return to the matter in the House having notably failed to achieve the result for which he hoped by an overheated press release to the same effect which he issued at the end of last week . |
| 17 | the ballet by Salvatore Viganò ( 1769–1821 ) for which he commissioned Beethoven ( 1770–1827 ) to write the music ; first produced in 1801 . |
| 18 | A man was a shareholder in a manufacturing company for which he wished to increase the overdraft facility . |
| 19 | There are also biographical details from the author 's life , especially the accidental shooting of his own wife in 1951 , for which he spent 13 days in a Mexican jail . |
| 20 | His years in England as a student of law involved him in an earnest effort of adaptation , and it is clear from his own account that he absorbed through his reading and his acquaintance a sense of British moral aspiration , for which he acquired a genuine respect . |
| 21 | True , the Government has continued to afford him protection , an expensive commitment for which he helps pay . |
| 22 | Although accountants may be on hand , the surveyor at partner level in a growing practice , or one of a substantial size , may find himself in the anomalous situation of spending the major part of his time on management for which he received no training rather than on technical matters , in which he is expert . |
| 23 | He went to the court where he found himself dubbed the plaintiff , paid a fee and a deposit for which he received a receipt . |
| 24 | There he played his own Piano Concerto in D , K.537 , for which he received yet another snuffbox , and heard an organ recital by J.W. Hässler , whose teacher had studied with J. S. Bach . |
| 25 | It is one of Joe 's great regrets that his father died before he made Raging Bull in 1980 , the film for which he received his first Oscar nomination . |
| 26 | The New Sculpture is written off as ‘ a meaningless period in English sculpture ’ ; Gill is ‘ more like a predator than a collaborator ’ and even his typography is dismissed with contempt ; we hear twice that Muirhead Bone , a steadfast and astute supporter , was an unimaginative artist ; Charles Holden 's London Transport Headquarters at 55 Broadway ( for which he received the RIBA Medal ) is ‘ practical but dull ’ ; and the love-hate relationship with Moore is superficially handled . |
| 27 | The SEC used the RICO sanctions as a lever to force Milken to plead guilty to six counts of securities fraud ( for which he received a 10 year prison sentence ) , pay $200m in criminal fines and penalties , and deposit $400m into a fund for injured investors . |
| 28 | Mr Reynolds ' pre-operative assessment revealed no respiratory or circulatory problems apart from iron-deficiency anaemia , for which he received a blood transfusion . |
| 29 | And I think it 's a very fine piece of work for which he received a first class mark incidentally . |
| 30 | My Lords , this is an appeal brought by the Director of Public Prosecutions with the leave of the Court of Appeal ( Criminal Division ) [ 1991 ] 1 W.L.R. 1334 from a decision of that court on 22 April 1991 allowing the appeal of the respondent defendant , Edwin Gomez , against his convictions on 20 and 24 April 1990 at Isleworth Crown Court on two counts of theft , for which he received concurrent sentences of two years ' imprisonment , and quashing those convictions . |