Example sentences of "[subord] he [verb] for a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was rushed to the intensive care unit at Liverpool 's Alder Hey Hospital where he stayed for a week before being transferred to a rehabilitation ward . |
| 2 | Mr Bolona is equally welcome in financial circles in North America , where he worked for a time as a consultant on Latin American debt . |
| 3 | It was fortunate that he was able to swim , although he wondered for a moment about the presence of large predators in the water . |
| 4 | He felt better than he had for a while , with hard work aching in his bones and the knowledge that he had decided what he must do at last . |
| 5 | Robyn found herself saying , ‘ So he went for a drive to let off some steam and that was the last … ’ |
| 6 | Well yeah I guess I did he gets confidence and he walks up with this he 's getting cockier by the minute and he 's well proud and he 's got he sees this , his in this bar trying to chat up this woman , he says I need a , I need a did n't he say I need a smoke or something , so he looks for a woman |
| 7 | Perhaps if he listened for a bit and then jeered , he would at least be able to jeer from a better-informed position . |
| 8 | The Chancellor was thus in a much stronger position than under Weimar , and , additionally , he could request an early election if he asked for a vote of confidence and this was rejected by the Bundestag . |
| 9 | Toby was a well-known golf writer , even if he wrote for a newspaper that was rarely , if ever , seen in the boardrooms of Britain . |
| 10 | Nigel wondered if any film star would be discerning enough to employ him if he applied for a chauffeur 's job . |
| 11 | I was told that his legal advisers were concerned that if he applied for a taxation this would amount to an adoption of the bills and prejudice his other objections to the bill . |
| 12 | If he asks for a review board he gets it because there is no provision in the regulations for even the Secretary of State to refuse such a request . |
| 13 | Nigel 's going to come and fit it cos he works for a company who makes and he 's doing them in every room . |
| 14 | I do believe , however , that he proceeded in considerable apprehension in his dealings with the lady ; in fact , that he was plainly frightened of her because of her quick temper and also because he had for a number of reasons formed a most favourable view of her judgement . |
| 15 | While he waited for a response he got up and moved ponderously to the wind-up gramophone housed in a carved oaken cabinet in a cornet of the room . |
| 16 | The charges arise from an incident last January during which an off duty police officer was allegedly hit with a hammer while he waited for a taxi in Cheltenham . |
| 17 | The charges arise from an incident last January during which an off duty police officer was allegedly hit with a hammer while he waited for a taxi in Cheltenham . |
| 18 | Alan left him howling in the cot again while he went for a bowl of water . |
| 19 | He stressed that this would be temporary whilst he looked for a replacement . |
| 20 | The gifted but erratic Glamorgan stroke-maker 's Test future is on the line after he fell for a sucker punch from Hughes . |
| 21 | After he served for a year as a deacon he was ordained as a priest . |
| 22 | But after he browsed for a while staff in the Los Angeles shop , told Jacko , above , they were out of stock . |
| 23 | Soon Godwin was to sell the shop to Collins — and trigger its slow decline — but before he quit for a job as chief editor with Penguin Books he decided to open a paperback section in Old Compton Street . |
| 24 | Wright pleaded guilty to all charges , and also admitted obtaining £207,000 from the Halifax Building Society by deception when he applied for a mortgage claiming , falsely , that he did not have one . |
| 25 | When he started to dress in front of the fire the two older girls turned away and when he looked for a collar stud the boy ran to attend . |
| 26 | In the first week of January 1979 , President Giscard d'Estaing expounded his view when he met for a summit conference with Jimmy Carter , Hemut Schmidt , the West German chancellor , and James Callaghan , the British prime minister , on the French West Indian island of Guadeloupe . |
| 27 | His parents were not surprised when he asked for a lock on his bedroom door before he had reached his teenage years . |
| 28 | When he stopped for a moment to wipe the sweat from his brow , Trung laid a cautionary hand on his arm . |
| 29 | Lord Apsley was nearly four times over the legal limit when he arrived for a function at an army barracks . |
| 30 | — ROBERT Wright will bank on keeping the adrenalin flowing when he bids for a Commonwealth welterweight title upset at London 's Grosvenor House Hotel tomorrow . |