Example sentences of "he [verb] [vb pp] for [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is the fifteenth in a series called ‘ The Russian world ’ which he has created for museums in various countries over the last five years or so . |
| 2 | He has searched for and found treasure on every continent ( except Antarctica ) , and he has dived for treasure in every ocean . |
| 3 | However , though now chosen as a blindside flanker , he has played for Ireland at No8 when not at lock . |
| 4 | Since then he has campaigned for improvements in farm animal welfare . |
| 5 | He has opted for Chatam over former hunter chaser Rushing Wild who will now be ridden by Jonathon Lower . |
| 6 | He has opted for Chatam over former hunter chaser Rushing Wild who will now be ridden by Jonathon Lower . |
| 7 | He has fought for Serbia in Croatia and he will protect us from genocide . ’ |
| 8 | He knew that he 'd fallen for bait like a fool . |
| 9 | The introduction to medieval and Renaissance literature that appeared some months after his death as The Discarded Image ( 1964 ) , based on the accumulated notes of lectures he had given for decades in Oxford and Cambridge , deals sympathetically with authors who , as he approvingly remarks , quote Homer and Hesiod ‘ as if they were no less to be taken into account than the sacred writers ’ ; and the break in the European spirit he saw as a consequence of the seventeenth-century scientific revolution is magnified here , in a sweeping argument , far beyond the familiar classroom shift from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance . |
| 10 | The Lancastrian , Henry Tudor , when he heard of what had happened , gathered a force in France and landed in Wales — where he had lived for part of his life — and he opposed Richard III , who was killed in battle in 1485 . |
| 11 | Though he had lived for weeks for this hour he now felt a wild surge of resentment towards McQuaid as he came into his own house . |
| 12 | His first sound film had been Hallelujah , which he had made for MGM in 1929 . |
| 13 | A fortnight ago he had played for England against America in the annual International . |
| 14 | From then on Endill was never again scared by the strange footsteps he had heard for years in the middle of the night . |
| 15 | The Shah subsequently told the Israeli foreign minister , Abba Eban , that he had jumped for joy at Nassers gemmulation victory . |
| 16 | And when the great gentleman detective got hold of the village postman and subjected him to an interrogation which ranged from what he had eaten for breakfast to whether or not he possessed a wireless set and if so what he had listened to on the previous morning , Sergeant Bramble maintained a stoic countenance . |
| 17 | They had smoked him out and now he had run for home in High Wood . |
| 18 | Just under a century later , in 869–70 , the Emperor Basil II , though he had turned for help to Pope Hadrian II , was responsible for summoning the fourth Council of Constantinople . |
| 19 | The Red and the Black , a crossword-puzzle book , and How to Train Your Labrador — he had toyed for years with the idea of owning a Labrador — also sat about on the dressing-table and the floor unread . |
| 20 | He had experimented for hours in the tiled bathroom . |
| 21 | Some papers later reported that he had stopped for tea at the Ritz but this unlikely frivolity was angrily and officially denied . |
| 22 | He remembered the brackish stream where he had fished for pinkeens with — who was it , Tommy Murtagh and Seanin Carty ? — and the mercifully short walk to the National School that in good weather he made in bare feet over stony roads , with in winter a sod of turf for the schoolroom fire crushing the jam sandwich in his satchel . |
| 23 | On the day on which he had lost her he had sat for hours on the bed in the attic where she had lived during her time with him , and where they had shared their afternoon of love , and now , on the evening of the second day , he sat there again . |
| 24 | He had worked for OBEX since leaving school . |
| 25 | As a young man he had worked for GenSyn as a commodity slave , his time and talents bought by them on a fifteen-year contract . |
| 26 | — Anything unusual about his manner when he had left for work on the morning of the 24th ? — Not that she had noted . |
| 27 | Jeans cut off thigh-high to make shorts and a T-shirt he had made out of an old man 's vest he had bought for 20p in a sale under the arches at Charing Cross Station and dyed green and yellow . |
| 28 | He had returned for lunch from his office in the city centre . |
| 29 | The intolerance he had shown for free-traders before 1914 was now turned on rebel Unionists who rocked the coalition boat . |
| 30 | He 's applied for jobs in Washington and |