Example sentences of "and he [vb past] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pasternak was apparently impressed ; far lesser actors than Nicholson would eventually become began their careers by similar bravado , and he arranged for him to be tested . |
| 2 | Ken Wolstenholme was never really lost to football after he left the Beeb and he commentated for a time on ITV 's Tyne Tees station and recently worked for Tottenham 's Clubcall line . |
| 3 | He lives , still , in the same Chelsea fiat with its pink and white striped wallpaper , geranium-filled window-boxes , elegant chintzy furniture , and the myriad of expressive original paintings which Joyce and he shared for so many years . |
| 4 | Nithard wrote of what he and his companions had suffered ; and he wrote for them as well as for Charles — significant evidence for Charles 's own constituency . |
| 5 | The author of The Jovial Cutlers , Joseph Mather , was himself a working cutler and he wrote for an audience of his fellows . |
| 6 | ‘ And he apologised for leaving , at a time when she needed him . ’ |
| 7 | I went through these areas that I wanted to work in and I argued with Jeremy that we had n't allowed for ‘ things visual ’ , that we had a visual medium , that Britain was profoundly under-educated visually , so that we should actually use television for visual education and he fell for this . |
| 8 | I tried to convince him there must be jugs at the grade and he fell for it , allowing me to breathe a great sigh of relief . |
| 9 | The question was direct and he blinked for a moment before answering : ‘ Yes , ’ he said , ‘ honestly yes , I will . |
| 10 | But Antony felt his life was still too indulgent and he longed for more complete mortification . |
| 11 | More than that : he had himself sprung from the upper working class and naturally despised as unclean the lower working class : his life was made a misery by their proximity , and he longed for them to be evicted or murder each other in one of their not infrequent rows . |
| 12 | Some trouble at home , and he sent for her . |
| 13 | And he sent for the Bishop of Valencia , and took their vows and made them plight themselves each to the other according as the law directs . |
| 14 | I said I 'd be in any time after six that evening and he came for the key precisely on the hour . ’ |
| 15 | Love was one of the realities in life and he went for it . |
| 16 | Mike Towers , with a background of newspaper journalism — he 'd worked for the Evening World in Bristol — assumed control of " Here Today " and he went for a harder , more newsy approach . |
| 17 | He got a big pellet in his leg Doctor and he went for X-rays , up to Monklands , was n't it ? |
| 18 | I think he fell down the stairs , and he screamed for two or three minutes . |
| 19 | When Ali Marwash 's daughter died the custom was followed to the letter since the girl was Ali Marwash 's only child and he cared for her more then he probably would have done had there been sons in the family . |
| 20 | But she was his son 's child and he cared for her . |
| 21 | Then he arose in fear , and called for light , and it was brought him ; and he looked for the leper and could see nothing ; so he returned into the bed , leaving the light burning . |
| 22 | A real wanderer , and he looked for a sign of her inheritance in himself . |
| 23 | His confidence grew and he applied for a job at the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre at Stratford upon Avon . |
| 24 | And he pleaded for the public to write to Premier John Major to protest at the move . |
| 25 | And he pleaded for a firmer approach from tonight 's referee , Denmark 's Kim Milton Nielsen . |
| 26 | He had the entertaining idea of running a competition , and he advertised for experts in games theory to submit strategies . |
| 27 | A snow-covered hedge loomed up ahead of him and he made for the shelter of it . |
| 28 | Most of them seemed to be the kind that took the prepaid cards that he never had , but there were a couple of pay booths at the end of the row and he made for those . |
| 29 | Inevitably , he came under the scrutiny of the bigger clubs and Spurs and Brentford made offers , but he eventually moved rather suddenly in October 1935 to Norwich City , when the Canaries paid their record fee to obtain his services , and he played for the Carrow Road club until the war . |
| 30 | He became the first from his club to be capped , in the Second Test of the recent tour of Australia in Hastings ' injury absence , and he played for Scotland ‘ A ’ against Spain in Madrid on September 12 . |