Example sentences of "[noun sg] he [verb] for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then , during his three years in exile he came for the first time into close contact with the main exponents of the Gregorian ideal , and we must ask how far and in what circumstances he adopted the phraseology of the Gregorian reformers ; then , whether he adopted the theoretical structure which their favourite phrase libertas ecclesiae expressed , or adopted the phrase for use only in exceptional circumstances and for special reasons . |
| 2 | After that result he disappeared for a short while , but he returned in time to be included in Wilson 's government , initially as Secretary of State for Economic Affairs , a post he held between 1964 and 1966 . |
| 3 | Walter climbed in beside him , trying hard not to show the fear he felt for the mechanical monster . |
| 4 | Perhaps because of his career as a Naval Officer during the First World War he worked for a long period during the Second World War at the Admiralty . |
| 5 | As he hung about the Red Anchor he noticed for the first time that its character was changing . |
| 6 | This was very well attended and a committee , with himself as chairman ( a post he held for the next thirty-six years ) , was elected and set to work . |
| 7 | When he came back in the evening he sat for a long time gazing out across the V-shaped valley leading south . |
| 8 | The next day he went for a long walk , about 20 miles , during which he did a good deal of clear thinking in the mountains . |
| 9 | What , for instance , would Ken have in common with Andrew Ray , who was then just twenty-three years old ( Ken was now forty ) and who made known and very clear the attraction he felt for a pretty girl ? |
| 10 | Last night he played for a hand-picked team of personal friends against the national side after recent appearances to help out injury-hit Bayern Munich . |
| 11 | When I met him at Wentworth earlier this week he called for a peaceful Ryder Cup match against the Americans at The Belfry in September . |
| 12 | The Scot forged into a 6-5 lead after eight ends of the opening set but Allcock grabbed the double he needed for a 7-6 win , before quickly putting the second out of Muir 's reach . |
| 13 | ‘ That philosopher , ’ said Scarlet , who seemed to have forgotten about going home , ‘ the one I was telling you about , he used to go galloping after women all over the place when his hair and his teeth were all falling out , and he used to write about the terrific compassion he felt for the human race , and his breath was foul . |
| 14 | To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what role he sees for the global environmental facility in helping developing countries with their environmental problems . |
| 15 | Leaving at midday he headed for the Tunisian coast in bad weather . |
| 16 | Towards the end of his long life he married for the second time . |
| 17 | Scott inherited the family estate in 1596 , but from 1612 until towards the end of his life he lived for a good part of the year in Canterbury . |
| 18 | In his later life he became for a few months nearly as famous as Ramsey , though in a different context . |
| 19 | By adopting a text-based approach he searches for an explicit and comprehensive communicative theory which can account for the psychological effects created by poetic texts . |
| 20 | Lane , by way of having a metaphorical dig at the greens , would later speak of how the 20-footer he needed for the outright lead had looked ‘ good in the air . ’ |
| 21 | It is selected from the pages of the BDN , to which he was a frequent contributor and on whose editorial board he served for a long period : A combined system is one which includes all useful methods and techniques and adapts them and uses them according to the particular needs of the child . |
| 22 | He has one rig in our room , another one in dad 's car and a third in the big truck he drives for the frozen meat company . |
| 23 | She said Judge Allen should have made an example of Clarke and she criticised an earlier sentence he received for a 1983 drink driving offence — a £150 fine and 18-month ban . |
| 24 | ’ On the north-east corner he asked for a castellated bell tower in which to house the bell he had brought back from Lille . |
| 25 | Tension between Iraq and Kuwait came to the world 's attention in mid-July when Saddam Hussein launched a fierce attack on the policy of those Gulf states , principally Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates ( UAE ) , whose over-production of oil he blamed for a corresponding slump in world oil prices . |
| 26 | In the end he went for a small Monet , a house on a cliff-side over the sea , surrounded by flowers . |
| 27 | ‘ Limpar could play for Arsenal again the way he plays for the national team if only Graham had more faith in him . |
| 28 | With this in position he waits for the right moment to switch through the distance shot film of the city , coupled with the live action inlay of the characters . |
| 29 | It is strange , however , that Garrick did not subscribe for Leapor 's volumes , since at almost the same time he subscribed for the Irish bricklayer poet , Henry Jones , though this may have been done to please Chesterfield . |
| 30 | Of course Wooderson could get things wrong — like the time he went for the British mile record and broke the world time . |