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

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1 Every female role he made was for his wife , even though she was well past her prime ; Semenyaka 's youth was wasted stepping into others ' shoes .
2 Will the Italian Abbado remain musical director of the Vienna State Opera where he has been for the past three years ?
3 The 18th baron , who inherited the title three years ago , has sensibly decided to stay on at the Dower House , where he has been for many years .
4 The 18th baron , who inherited the title three years ago , has sensibly decided to stay on at the Dower House , where he has been for many years .
5 It 's also a relaxed , romantic ad for Bill S , more alive here than he has been for decades .
6 He has been for the last six years . ’
7 Since you came here he has laughed more and been amused more than he has been for the past two years .
8 I do not know where he has been for the past few years , but we have reduced the rates on lower earnings so that people now pay on average about £3 a week less in national insurance .
9 All He wants is for you to be truly sorry .
10 All he wants is for the RAF to make sure it does n't happen again .
11 He says all he wants is for the lies to stop .
12 ‘ Now he 's happier , I think , than he 'd been for a long time .
13 I do n't think he 'd been for about six month .
14 He had demanded exorbitant fees for his speaking engagements and billed the Socialist Labor Party for theatre tickets and corsages which he claimed were for Eleanor .
15 His particular predilections when he started were for the young artists of his won age who were beginning to reject the immediate traditions of their predecessors and experiment with new formulas of expression and technique in the 1940s and 1950s .
16 I happened to see Sir John Woods [ Permanent Secretary to the Board of Trade ] tonight and he told me that Sir Stafford Cripps had been reading the minutes of Cabinet committees during his absence [ in India , where he had been for nearly four months trying to reach a settlement which would lead to independence ] and had been depressed by the amount of time and energy taken up in the Ministerial Committees with the discussion of quite minor matters which individual Ministers ought to settle in their discretion .
17 Paul climbed the stairs in trepidation ; had he made some mistake in the corrections , blind with pain as he had been for part of the day ?
18 His vocal chords abruptly haemorrhaged ; CBS TV dropped him , as did his agent MCA , and Columbia Records with whom he had been for ten years .
19 This shows that Anselm was quite as ready to face exile for the primacy as he had been for obedience to the pope .
20 To be sure , one could sympathize with the sentiments of some of those penitents who refused themselves pleasures because the Emperor , saviour of mankind , could experience no pleasure whatever , locked as he had been for millennia in his prosthetic throne …
21 He had been for many years an Examiner with the Joint Matriculation Board , and latterly Chief Examiner for the Cambridge Board .
22 The effort of giving Sam as much exercise as he wanted made Albert more fit than he had been for years .
23 Because the tentacled exter was a living legend — of crime — as he had been for longer than I 'd been alive .
24 Mr Strachan 's acquaintance with the Library did not begin with his appointment as Chairman , since he had been for many years , as a historian and biographer , a reader in the Library 's Reading Rooms .
25 He had been for a second interview last Tuesday morning and had a nail biting few days till all was confirmed on Friday last for a start yesterday , 22nd March .
26 Here , as he had been for much of the past week , Thomas was contentedly playing .
27 When I was a bit older , I thought he was probably a thief and that the bag he carried was for the loot . ’
28 His job is to clean along the paths of the Zoo and that thing he pushes is for the rubbish he collects , and along its side he has two brooms and a shovel .
29 At this stage Hitler 's plans were still fluid , but the last thing he wanted was for the useful Danzig problem to be solved .
30 All he wanted was for him to put out the cigarette ; he knew he would just go on suffering the strangled air .
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