Example sentences of "he [verb] [vb pp] for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has called for secret police to track down those spreading rumours of early elections , and recently warned golfers ( who include many rich Kenyans ) against anti-government talk on the fairways . |
| 2 | He has prepared for civilian life by going on a butcher 's course . |
| 3 | He has worked for pharmaceutical company Pfizer , National Bank of Angola and on collaborative projects for the World Bank and is now representing Banco Espirito Santo in Luanda . |
| 4 | Instead of the sexy bits he 'd opted for poetic descriptions of London at night and the philosophic chapter from his last book about the beauties of a relationship between a young girl and an older man . |
| 5 | On his arrival , he had asked for hot water to be brought up to his room at nine sharp the next morning , but the sight of one of the young servant girls struggling up the stairs from the kitchen with the huge kettle of boiling water had made him feel so guilty and ashamed he had not asked again . |
| 6 | The youth 's uncle , slightly pink , also laughing , accepted the turn in the argument : Idi Amin might be black , he said , but he was a Muslim and he had asked for Libyan aid . |
| 7 | Wood died 19 December 1865 at 49 Sussex Gardens , Hyde Park , London , where he had gone for medical advice , and was buried in the churchyard at Hetton . |
| 8 | A great mimic , he had developed for English society an accent which outclassed the Brits around him . |
| 9 | Debts had swallowed up most of the money he had got for Carinish Court . |
| 10 | He had worked for various firms doing all sorts of jobs , for he was nothing if not adaptable , and recently , just as he was approaching retirement , the firm he worked for in Deptford had become bankrupt . |
| 11 | An indemnity committee considered that he had spied for political reasons and was thus eligible for release under the government 's indemnity programme . |