Example sentences of "where he [vb past] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite his humble rugby origins in Melbourne , McKenzie quickly learned the lessons in the toughest trade of the game and won Wallaby selection on the tour of England , Scotland and Italy in 1988 where he pressed for test selection . |
| 2 | During the first World War Hamilton served with the Coldstream Guards ( he stood just on 6ft ) and he spent the latter part of his service at Caterham Barracks from where he signed for Palace when he was ‘ demobbed ’ in December 1922 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Many of the pieces were purchased by Dubosc in Japan where he lived for the latter part of his life and much of his collection is now in the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco . |
| 5 | Miguel joins us direct from BARCELONA , where he lived for several months . |
| 6 | John Piper was best known for his very English pictures of the countryside , including his own house near Henley-on-Thames , where he lived for more than fifty years . |
| 7 | John Piper was best known for his very English pictures of the countryside , including his own house near Henley-on-Thames , where he lived for more than fifty years . |
| 8 | In an attempt to solve the Arab-Israeli crisis , the Highland Light Infantry sent Docherty to Palestine , where he played for the British Army XI . |
| 9 | In a career that took him to Genoa where he played for the local side Sampdoria , he assumed an almost Italianate sense of style . |
| 10 | After the latter match there was a flurry of interest in him from Football League clubs and Fred soon signed for Northampton , where he played for seven seasons before moving to Palace in February 1936 . |
| 11 | A fever sent him back to Britain , where he wrote for Blackwood 's Magazine under the pseudonym ‘ Colin Ballantyne ’ , edited a Tory paper , British Press or Morning Literary Adviser , and established the Telescope , a paper focusing on Indian affairs , which ran until 1825 . |
| 12 | More than could ever come to Siward 's aid , no matter where he sent for them . |
| 13 | The one-time art teacher retired about two years ago from St Mary 's Sixth Form College in Middlesbrough where he taught for about 20 years . |
| 14 | Further honours awaited him at Bologna , where he applied for membership of the Accademia Filarmonica . |
| 15 | From Germany , they travelled by train to Sweden , where he applied for asylum , the first American citizen to do so since the Vietnam War . |
| 16 | He turned and headed for the door where he paused for a moment . |
| 17 | However , probably his best performance was in the Hennessy Cognac Irish Gold Cup at Leopardstown where he led for most of the trip before tiring and finishing fourth behind subsequent Cheltenham hero Jodami , Chatam and General Idea . |
| 18 | On June 18 , he collapsed and died in the arms of a fellow customer in one of the Stroud pubs where he went for company to chat quietly about cricket ( never in an egotistical way ) and for a drink to help him forget . |
| 19 | He was educated at Harrow , from where he went for a few months into his father 's City office , which he hated ; and he spent a term in Göttingen , learning German . |
| 20 | It was in New Zealand , where he stayed for three and a half years , that he first entered the world of Bohemia and found himself getting on best with artists . |
| 21 | He was born in Wales in 1771 but served his apprenticeship in Stamford at the drapery business of James McGuffog , where he stayed for three years , originally at 31 High Street and later on St. Mary 's Street . |
| 22 | In the autumn of 1929 Humphrys was appointed high commissioner ( from 1932 first British ambassador ) to the British mandated state of Iraq , where he stayed for six years . |
| 23 | He had made a detour to a cafe where he stayed for an unspecified time before walking to the Post and entering by the back door , discovering the mayhem in the newsroom and retreating to the printer 's office . |
| 24 | He then went on to the University of Leipzig where he stayed for four years , except for an interlude in Berlin of eighteen months . |
| 25 | 8 , when , for some reason , perhaps some personal misconduct , he was dismissed ; he decamped to York , where he resided for many years . |
| 26 | Refusing to accept dismemberment of his remaining territory , Wilfrid took himself into Mercia where he acted for King Aethelred as bishop of the Middle Angles ( HE , IV , 23 ; Vita Wilfridi , ch. 45 ) . |
| 27 | After an unorthodox early career — involving various forms of school work , including ( so he was fond of saying ) running a pub — he became in 1940 Chief Education Officer for Hertfordshire , where he remained for seventeen fruitful years . |
| 28 | In 1754 Ramsay was again in Italy , where he remained for three years , developing the wonderfully delicate style of his maturity , and constantly drawing from life with all the avidity to learn of a student . |
| 29 | He then became professor in Basle , where he remained for the rest of his long life . |
| 30 | He refused to comply and left Oxford after the first year to join the Guardian where he remained for seven years before taking up a post as an investigative journalist with a left-wing French newspaper . |