Example sentences of "[noun] he had [verb] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He mounted the horse he had led for the last hour or so and walked it cautiously down into Buttermere which he entered with the utter conviction that he had been there before . |
| 2 | Through Hoskyns he had come for the time under the influence of the leader of anti-rational European theology , Karl Barth , who at this moment was back in Basle after being expelled from Germany by the Nazis . |
| 3 | The evening terminated with the members singing ‘ For he 's a jolly good fellow ’ to Micky Watson in appreciation of the considerable work he had done for the Club . |
| 4 | This was precisely the way in which Inspector Porfiry in Dostoevsky 's Crime and Punishment homed in on the culprit Raskolnikov , a man who was also damned by a paper : an article he had written for the Periodical Magazine , months before , offering justifications for certain sorts of crimes . |
| 5 | In March 1985 , he came into conflict with the Lord Chancellor over an article he had written for the Daily Telegraph on Government pressure on the judiciary to shorten sentences and on the inadequacies of the prison system . |
| 6 | The car was not ready by that date , so the defendant bought another car elsewhere and claimed back the price he had paid for the chassis . |
| 7 | The saga , which was illustrated with his own naïve pen-and-ink drawings , had its origins in the compassion he had felt for the sufferings of the animals in the past war ( ‘ If we made [ them ] take the same chances as we did ourselves , why did we not give them similar attention when wounded ? ’ ) and in the letters about an imaginary horse surgery that he had written home from the front to his two children , Elizabeth and Colin ( the latter of whom habitually called himself Dr Dolittle ) . |
| 8 | Further , on appointment he had realised for the first time that the eastern parts of the District remained largely undeveloped by the WEA . |
| 9 | Peter remembered the motto he had chosen for the Emperor 's Luck Casino in Emor . |
| 10 | The motto formed part of the coat of arms he had designed for the establishment — five poker dice surmounted by an imperial crown . |
| 11 | But when he was invited to play a piece of music he had composed for the Princess Royal to her when she visited Edinburgh , they rapidly found out . |
| 12 | After she changed the number , Coleman himself began to get similar calls at the apartment he had taken for the family in Palatine , a commuter train ride from the Boy Scouts ' office on Lake Street , Chicago , although these , too , stopped after he took the DIA 's advice and obtained an unlisted number . |
| 13 | But by then Gerrard was facing George again , an expression of great seriousness replacing the wry look he had produced for the audience . |
| 14 | Coleman had gone up on the roof the previous evening for one of his periodic checks of the antennae he had rigged for the listening post . |
| 15 | The only funeral emblem that he wore was a pair of black worsted stockings , which no doubt he had borrowed for the occasion … |
| 16 | Although I 'd followed the progress of the King trial in the papers , it was only then that it began to hit home what a symbol he had become for the suppressed majority of my city . |
| 17 | William was employed in the Maintenance Department on General Service Duties , a position he had held for the past two years . |
| 18 | He told Palmerston about a design he had submitted for the Senate House at Hamburg and about his ideas contained in Remarks and ‘ hearing of the probability of the Competition , and feeling that the genius loci of the proposed site ’ was particularly favourable to his ideas , he had given his ‘ undisturbed attention ’ to the subject . |
| 19 | On one occasion , for example , Charles flew down to Broadlands to consult Mountbatten about a speech he had written for the Gandhi centenary tribute . |
| 20 | Nichols , watching this pantomime , quickly explained that this was the guy he had picked for the lead in The Graduate . |
| 21 | Cross-examined by Donald Macfadyen , QC , for the defence , Mr Malcolm read from a note he had written for the firm 's compliance director which said Mackie had asserted he had made no mention of an impending profits warning . |
| 22 | That afternoon in the big , empty cinema , I gave him a private showing of the film , and there were many pictures of Danckwerts 's shipmates of thirty years earlier , including an interview I had had with his immediate superior , Captain Helmuth Giessler , the ship 's navigating officer , who told me of the secret preparations he had made for the midnight departure from Brest in February 1942 of the Scharnhorst , Gneisenau and Prinz Eugen on the eve of their audacious dash through the English Channel to Germany . |