Example sentences of "[vb past] he [verb] for [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One day she rashly invited him to stay for a weekend . |
| 2 | Friends invited him to apply for the Readership in Geometry at Gresham 's College , and a wealthy London merchant offered him £10,000 to take his daughter in marriage . |
| 3 | He had to report to the headmaster at four o'clock , and was taken there by force by Foggerty who caught him racing for the school gates when the bell went . |
| 4 | Isay helped him dress for the banquet that evening , showing no resentment at having to double as valet as well as bodyguard . |
| 5 | The Executive Council under Sir Paw Tun were inert and helpless , and later that morning I went to the Governor to say that I did not think we could hold the situation any longer without grave risk , and advised him to call for the resignation of the Executive Council . |
| 6 | The master , A. D. Lindsay ( later first Baron Lindsay of Birker , q.v. ) , encouraged him to work for a spell ( 1927–8 ) at a Quaker settlement for the unemployed in the Rhondda Valley — an experience which made a deep impression . |
| 7 | He pretended to me that he was already booked in there , but he was n't — I heard him ask for the room afterwards . |
| 8 | At the end of the week she discovered he worked for an average of 1 minute at a time . |
| 9 | The last heard of Gert was in 1943 when he tried and failed to join the RA F. Bloomsbury House urged him to settle for the Pioneers . |
| 10 | Evelyn shuddered as she watched him crouch for a second , then spring up and take off jauntily like a half mangled insect . |
| 11 | Wexford watched him feel for the girl 's hand , but she was occupied with Mrs Hatton , dabbing at her face and smoothing her hair . |
| 12 | I was the one who recommended him to try for the job . |
| 13 | His experiments with cement making led him to apply for a patent which was granted in June 1824 — no. 5,022 entitled ‘ An Improvement in the Modes of Producing an Artificial Stone ’ — the first such patent to be granted . |
| 14 | Thomas Coram 's revulsion at the infant corpses in London gutters led him to campaign for a hospital for foundlings , established in 1741 . |
| 15 | It was surprise which made him stop for a second . |
| 16 | Twice she asked him to stay for a cup of tea , but he refused . |
| 17 | Colossal close-outs kept him sprinting for the horizon . |
| 18 | She felt a warm sense of power as she kept him dangling for a moment . |
| 19 | Naylor Massingham demanded , growing more furious , she realised , the longer she kept him waiting for an answer . |
| 20 | When he had finished his chores he sat down at the table and copied out ‘ I am William Beech ’ over and over again until Tom , after much effort , finally persuaded him to go for a run and exercise Sammy . |
| 21 | But he had an appointment with a delegate of the Slaters union at the Freemasons lodge in the Imperial , but I persuaded him to come for a drink . |
| 22 | As Julie saw him reach for the doorbell a third time she opened the door and eased it back to the extent of the chain . |
| 23 | However , 1946 saw him competing for the gloves with Paul Gibb and the veteran Arthur Wood . |
| 24 | Billy was not a great goalscorer , but everyone who saw him play for the Palace is agreed that he helped to make hundreds of them for us . |
| 25 | But if you saw him running for the bus , he would go blue in the face and collapse on to the bus . |
| 26 | The revenues it generated — well over £2 million — were what enabled him to bid for the factory at Earby , only a couple of miles over the hill from Barnoldswick . |
| 27 | Gascoigne went up to each player in the dressing-room before the kick-off , roughly shook him , and demanded he die for the club and the cause . |
| 28 | Five years ago a medical general practitioner might have spent $8,000 a year on an insurance policy that gave him cover for a claim up to $1m . |
| 29 | Come on … when Chappy was nt scoring just what did he do for the team ? |
| 30 | If so , who was the other writer , and where can we find where he said it , and what references did he give for the statement ? |