Example sentences of "[subord] he [vb past] [adv prt] for the " in BNC.

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1 Pilots were to be Russ Boardman and Lee Gehlbach , but Boardman was injured prior to the race and Doolittle found he had no mount ( his landing gear had jammed ) , so he took over for the Thompson .
2 Before he stepped up for the most nerve-shattering moment of his career Guennady Grishin had kept his nerve to fire the Russians into a 4-3 advantage .
3 The 29-year-old Scot , a £225,000 summer capture from Millwall , has struggled to find his form on Wearside but all that changed when he came on for the injured Don Goodman after just 12 minutes of Saturday 's game against Barnsley .
4 ‘ The DJ took up the same line when he came on for the broadcast quiz interview , ’ she went on .
5 When he came in for the night some hours later he was still agitated and fretting .
6 The problems do n't end there ; Kingsley Black had one of his best games for Northern Ireland in Tirana , when he came in for the injured Michael Hughes .
7 He was also afraid that when he turned up for the next practice , Amber and Jeopardy 's argument would be resolved , and he would no longer be required .
8 We then hit him over the head with the punt-pole and paddled off out of range of his piteously outstretched hands , cackling demonically as he went down for the third time .
9 His big blond head kept coming up , shaking once and then bobbing through the water as he struck out for the machine .
10 Collecting her ticket , she came up behind him again as he checked in for the flight .
11 As he reached out for the cheese , he heard a faint sound behind him …
12 As he set off for the airport Lewis remembered that he had told Adam from the first that only trouble could come from a person of his youth and inexperience inheriting a big house and land of the dimensions of Wyvis Hall .
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