Example sentences of "[subord] he [verb] for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The man claims he was then taken to a boat on the Norfolk Broads , where he lived for two weeks , and then spent a week holed-up in a room at an unknown holiday camp . |
| 2 | In November of the same year he talked on " The Idiom of Modern Verse " to the Cambridge English Club , where he had for one auditor the appearance of " a very shy , neurotic man " 32 In 1937 he gave an address to the Friends of Rochester Cathedral on religious drama , and lectured on Shakespeare at Edinburgh University he told Lawrence Durrell , however , that he seemed to have spoken about what he himself was interested in doing in the theatre and not about Shakespeare at all.In April 1938 he travelled to Lisbon in order to sit on the jury for the Camoens Prize ; when he came back , he had to address the Friends of Salisbury Cathedral on the poetry of George Herbert and then , two months later , talk on " The Future of Poetic Drama " at an International Theatre Congress in Stratford-upon-Avon . |
| 3 | The Veterinary Products Committee , where he served for four years , gives advice on food and animal drug issues to the Minister of Agriculture . |
| 4 | ( Van , 1896 ) On his return to England my father was appointed to the Consular Service and posted to Taranto in southern Italy , where he served for two years . |
| 5 | His connection with tramways was first established with the Blackburn and Over Darwen steam tramway , where he served for three years . |
| 6 | Born in Devon in 1954 , Andrew Mudge left school at the age of fifteen and did nine years ' service in the Navy before becoming Gardener for the Trust at Castle Drogo where he worked for seven years . |
| 7 | In 1907 Scott returned to I Tatti where he remained for two years , acting as secretary-librarian to Berenson , by whose intensely aesthetic approach to the study of art he was powerfully influenced . |
| 8 | After training , Glen , accompanied by his wife , went as a missionary to Astrakhan , in southern Russia , where he remained for five years . |
| 9 | Born at Cardross , Dumbartonshire , he lost his hearing in infancy through illness and was admitted at the age of 8 into the Glasgow Institution for the Deaf and Dumb where he remained for seven years . |
| 10 | Although he allows for many areas of uncertainty in the study of catharsis , Scheff nevertheless accepts the universality of the need to handle destructive emotions , and proposes that ritual , as a cathartic experience , be reinstated in the West as ‘ a dramatic form for coping with universal distress ’ ( 1979 : 114 ) . |
| 11 | He said you were n't to let a new dog off the lead until he had for six weeks |
| 12 | If he hoped for public sympathy from his revelations about the affair and marriage , he was very wrong . |
| 13 | If he opts for physical delivery , he will be allocated one of a number of prime banks whose sterling time deposits are accepted by LIFFE as being of deliverable quality . |
| 14 | Well , because he said for obvious reasons , he said er I did n't want my name and address mentioned . |
| 15 | But while he argues for general connections between the rites , incidentally ignoring the many repudiations of Gnosticism that were made of it by early Christian leaders , his viewpoint is much more balanced than Scobie 's . ) |
| 16 | In 1959 , three years after he applied for German papers under his own name at the German embassy , he fled to Paraguay as the Frankfurt authorities issued the first warrant for his arrest . |
| 17 | BRITAIN 'S new top judge was set for a clash with the Government last night after he called for SHORTER jail sentences . |
| 18 | I rang Seddon at home before he left for New Scotland Yard and asked him to find out for me the names of the officers who had dealt with the Southwark Bridge case . |
| 19 | According to Reagan himself , when he appeared on the factory floor In assessing Reagan 's qualifications for the presidency his experience before he ran for elective office can not be discounted . |
| 20 | A player joining a new club during the close season or after the season starts will have to wait 30 days if joining a club two leagues higher or lower before he plays for that club in a Courage league game or 120 days if joining a club on the same level or one league higher or lower before he plays for that in a league game ; he waits 180 days if he is not a British passport holder . |
| 21 | I was ashamed that I 'd written a reference for him when he applied for that job . |
| 22 | When he applied for judicial review he did not know whether his tariff exceeded 20 years , but on 10 April 1990 his solicitors were informed by the Home Office that it did not . |
| 23 | In 1920 Birkenhead put forward both lines of argument when he argued for greater coalition cooperation in the press . |
| 24 | He was drilling the car through a bend at 90mph when he went for third gear — and hit first at 7,000 revs . |
| 25 | Christopher Horn , 45 , of Hurworth Moor , near Darlington , sparked a police search when he vanished for several days in August . |
| 26 | The Wisconsin state authorities feel that they have lost enough money on Steve Chen 's dreams — his failed Supercomputer Systems Inc received $75m in incentives from to establish its operations in Eau Claire , and they showed Chen the door when he asked for another $5m to get his fledgling SuperComputers International Inc off the ground in Eau Claire . |
| 27 | Huge jams built up behind the 74-year-old pensioner as he crawled for five miles along the inside lane of the dual-carriageway A1 . |
| 28 | Keeping himself hidden , Philip watched him as he looked for another stone . |
| 29 | He was still smiling as he reached for another claim-form . |
| 30 | As he reached for another lime Luke touched the preselect for Talent International . |