Example sentences of "he [verb] for the [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've never known him go for the skinny boyish type before . ’ |
| 2 | It was Ben Crenshaw who persuaded him to enter for the 1981 Open . |
| 3 | To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what plans he has for the Royal Naval Reserve ; and if he will make a statement . |
| 4 | Yes once again the Village Fete sees our Fanciful Pretender ready to join the procession as he has for the past 15 years . |
| 5 | he has for the aforesaid common good and defence of the realm ordained that as clerks ought not to defend themselves by force of arms , the third part of the present year 's temporalities of prelates and clerks and all persons of holy church , religious and other is to be seized . |
| 6 | You play Indy , who takes on the Nazis as he searches for the precious power-giving material , Orichalcum . |
| 7 | Little is known of Francis Wright 's early years , but in 1830 , on the retirement of his father , he became the senior partner in Butterley , which he dominated for the next forty-three years . |
| 8 | To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what role he sees for the global environmental facility in helping developing countries with their environmental problems . |
| 9 | Instead he served for the next three yearswith a merchant shipping company . |
| 10 | In the 1940s , he worked for the Northern Whig and then for the Intelligence Corps and the Foreign Office . |
| 11 | In 1837 he was apprenticed to his uncle James S. Stirling at Dundee foundry , where he worked for the next six years and where some locomotives were built for the Arbroath and Forfar Railway which influenced his own later designs . |
| 12 | Alright he was carrying an injury but surely the onus of the team should not rest on a single player — and besides what was he doing for the first 80 minutes on Saturday . |
| 13 | Now he 's become sixty five so as you remember he qualifies for the larger age allowances , he qualifies for the larger married couples allowance , so his total allowances are of course considerably increased by the fifteen hundred pounds . |
| 14 | He looked for the other two aircraft . |
| 15 | For some reason , no one knew why , he had for the last four months taken to sleeping in the south porch . |
| 16 | He 'd have quite liked to have spent the night on the couch in Polly 's living room , as he had for the last few months of their marriage , but it had not been offered as an option and he supposed it was just as well . |
| 17 | Sometimes , he longed for the good old days . |
| 18 | In 1938 he was elected president of the International Youth Hostel Federation , an office which he held for the next twelve years . |
| 19 | This was very well attended and a committee , with himself as chairman ( a post he held for the next thirty-six years ) , was elected and set to work . |