Example sentences of "he [verb] [noun] for the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And Madam , I 'd also ask you to say that to him to pay compensation for the minor injuries she 's suf she 's suffered and of course you have to consider that 's a point in a case involving assault , would be to add insult to injury , and would not assist the parties in coming to terms with their relationship and hopefully attempting a reconciliation . |
| 2 | While waiting for this money to come through , he asked the owners if they would allow him to order goods for the coming summer season . |
| 3 | He plays darts for the local pub , and his wife Anne , has joined the Womens Institute . |
| 4 | Next came Cooder 's first real involvement with film-work ; over the next two or three years he produced soundtracks for The Long Riders , Southern Comfort and The Border . |
| 5 | In 1904 , he became candidate for the neighbouring borough of Kidderminster . |
| 6 | Already a common councilman for Queenhithe ( since 1711 ) and a well-known opponent of the great Whig financiers who dominated the City 's upper court , he became alderman for the Tory ward of Castle Baynard in 1722 and a leading City critic of Sir Robert Walpole . |
| 7 | He became MP for the Northern ( Oswestry ) division of Shropshire , 1906–29 . |
| 8 | In 1575 , he built Almshouses for the poor at East Greenwich , the first of their kind founded by a Protestant at a cost of more than £2,700 , and in 1581 , he published another work on the Duties of Constables , Borsholders , Tythingmen and other law and Lay ministers of the Peace . |
| 9 | The very next year ( 1590 ) he provided music for the pastoral interludes of Tasso 's Aminta and two other pastorals which was in an ‘ altro modo di cantare che l'ordinario ’ , presumably some kind of recitative . |
| 10 | He provided portraits for the various colonial communities and dignitaries , and made pictorial ‘ views ’ and ethnic studies . |
| 11 | He has sympathy for the small scale dealers : ‘ They 've been brought up in an entrepreneurial country under Thatcher where they 've been taught to make money . |
| 12 | God is a planner and he has plans for the British Isles . |
| 13 | In his next letter , on his feet again , he thanks Theo for the enclosed 100 francs . |
| 14 | Brutus had said that he killed Caesar for the general good but Antony is now saying that he did n't know why they killed him , otherwise he saying that it was n't for the general good . |
| 15 | Though he professes scorn for the outmoded quaintness of things Victorian , Philip 's conception of life is modelled largely on the Victorian novel and its Edwardian successors . |
| 16 | He felt contempt for the soft lives of the TOP 's . |
| 17 | On the following Tuesday he had tickets for the much-acclaimed Lear at the National , and then two days later a seat in the stalls for the revival of Turandot at the Coliseum . |
| 18 | Stipends were generally better in town churches : when Joseph Parker began his ministry in Banbury in 1853 he received 50s. a week or £130 p.a. although when he left Banbury for the affluent Cavendish Street Chapel in Manchester in 1858 his income jumped to £1,700 . |
| 19 | He left money for the poor and the sick , and an endowment of £20 a year for Bridgnorth School . |
| 20 | As a Catholic , he wanted revenge for the Catholic Basques ' " betrayal " of the Nationalist cause . |