Example sentences of "he [vb past] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He made for London , where he resumed his former way of life , a mixture of study and worldly pleasures , but never losing sight of the main objective . |
| 2 | Ice on the north coast of Spitsbergen made it impossible to pass Amsterdam Island , and so he made for Franz Josef Land , discovered only in 1873–4 , and partly mapped . |
| 3 | The 50-minute film he made for Arena suggests why : Last Supper — Frank on Frank looks like a parody of the excesses of Sixties avant-garde film-making . |
| 4 | Thereafter he lived for society and gossip , projecting a ‘ History of his Times ’ , the materials of which were to be his long , delightfully observant letters to his favourite stepdaughter , Elizabeth Ord . |
| 5 | He checked for Lawton and Forster , saw them pass the entrance again . |
| 6 | If the Sabbath was a day of rest from labour , Sunday , Rabbi Moishe sometimes thought — but it was not a thought he voiced for fear of being misunderstood — was a day of rest from the Sabbath . |
| 7 | ‘ I was n't sure that I 'd find you in , ’ he drawled for openers — and suddenly Fabia did n't like his tone . |
| 8 | The following year he registered for study in philosophy and theology at the University of Leyden and , apart from a brief return to Rostock , remained in The Netherlands until he took up a post at the University of Copenhagen in June 1648 . |
| 9 | She thought his Catholicism , the emotion he mistook for faith , was a pity . |
| 10 | Elinor felt privileged to be one of his girlfriends for she was aware how little he cared for women and how he would sometimes wince when sitting next to one . |
| 11 | He cared for Noah , freely and very , very closely . |
| 12 | Pound did not reach Washington , however , until the middle of November 1945 and the first real chance Eliot had to acquaint himself with the situation was on the business trip to the United States which he planned for June and July of 1946 . |
| 13 | However , he got better results in his own TV film , The Ewok Adventure ( aka Caravan of Courage , 1984 ) , which he produced for Lucas , by shooting some action sequences with most of the picture area on the negative blocked off , then — working from a test strip just before the main action — matching the matte painting to the unexposed area and finally compositing action and painting together . |
| 14 | Those that he produced for sale through the Redfern Gallery were usually printed in editions of fifty and include Thames-side , Bull Fight , Spain , Tropical Landscape , Horse Guards in their Dressing Rooms at Whitehall and Working Men 's College , this last relating to his association with the Working Men 's College in Crowndale Road , Mornington Crescent , where he gave a lecture , ‘ The Painter 's Intention ’ , in 1952 , taught lithography and also acted as Art Adviser . |
| 15 | Breaking the five-figure mark again , he sold for 10,800gn to the judge , Roger Hazard , Grantham , Lincolnshire . |
| 16 | The Basquiat estate is after twenty or so paintings , which Baghoomian says he sold for cash immediately after Basquiat 's death . |
| 17 | Newlands 's tables did contain errors and anomalies , but after 1869 , when more accurate and comprehensive studies by Mendeleyev and J. Lothar Meyer began to appear , he argued for recognition of his priority . |
| 18 | He rode for Boro Bears at 16 , before he joined Bradford for a £20,000 fee . |
| 19 | Water filled his mouth as he fought for air . |
| 20 | Her father was choking for breath , clutching his throat as he fought for air . |
| 21 | He fought for air — his lungs were bursting — the pain was unbearable — he knew that he was drowning … . |
| 22 | … screaming as he lurched from his bed , his hands groping for his throat , his chest heaving convulsively as he fought for air . |
| 23 | Shortly after this fight , my father was reinstated amateur and , as an amateur , he fought for England against Germany in 1937 at the Albert Hall , beating Otto Kastner , the Olympic champion and Golden Gloves winner . |
| 24 | He fought for King Charles in the Civil War and was killed at Marston Moor in 1644 . |
| 25 | He fought for Orkney and won it , against men just like Siward . |
| 26 | He fought for things we 'd disagree with , like wives staying at home . |
| 27 | Harding was looking at him now all right , voice shaking as he fought for control : ‘ Firstly … |
| 28 | John Fleg 's chest heaved as he fought for breath . |
| 29 | At his consecration , he had promised to maintain Canterbury 's rights of every kind , from the primacy down to the smallest knight 's fee , and we have seen that in Rufus 's reign he allowed many , as we might think , greater matters to lie dormant while he fought for Canterbury 's rights . |
| 30 | When he applied for immigration into Australia he had to undergo a routine medical examination . |