Example sentences of "he [be] [verb] for the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | a police officer , what 's he been doing for the last |
| 2 | Manciple sounded as if he were apologizing for the other man 's rudeness . |
| 3 | He is prepared for the paradoxical . |
| 4 | Whenever they gather in private , he is berated for the economic mess in which their political fortunes are floundering , although in public , as hon. Members know only too well , the fiction is resolutely maintained that Conservative economic policy has been a continuing success . |
| 5 | In this way , should you be unable to attend at the last moment and he has to sit twiddling his thumbs in his consulting room because it is too late to give the appointment to anyone else , he is recompensed for the wasted time . |
| 6 | Here the use of the definite article with ‘ driver ’ seems quite appropriate , even though he is mentioned for the first time . |
| 7 | He has kicked the booze , lost weight , and he is itching for the Italian League to get under way . |
| 8 | Swales is not at the US Cup , though he is expected for the final match in Detroit against Germany on June 19 . |
| 9 | He 's worked for the National Children 's Bureau . |
| 10 | Damien Devine from Cirencester in Gloucestershire , heads a training programme for firemen in Saudi Arabia , where he 's worked for the last 18 months . |
| 11 | I do n't think he 's equipped for the modern age , quite frankly . |
| 12 | He 's never given enough clean clothes and he 's chastised for the slightest thing . |
| 13 | Deport Peter Schmichael for having an out of date work permit , let Scumtona and Hughes run off to the Cayman Islands for a peaceful life together , Ryans potty training to let him down at home games as well as away , Lee Sharpe to OD on E and think he 's playing for the best team in the country . |
| 14 | Messiaen began composing at the age of seven , entering the Paris Conservatoire four years later where he was to remain for the next 11 years , winning four premiers prix including that for composition in 1930 . |
| 15 | Such was my father 's introduction to Abyssinia where , except for three periods of leave , he was to remain for the next ten years . |
| 16 | I knew then that what I was telling him he was hearing for the first time . |
| 17 | yes it 's Chernobyl , he was looking for the real word there , a nuclear what ? |
| 18 | Hershman says his movie is inspired by Jean-Luc Godard 's Breathless , and that he was looking for the new Jean-Paul Belmondo to play the lead . |
| 19 | The famous Swedish Don Giovanni , John Forsell , declared that the young Tauber was the greatest Ottavio he had ever heard , and he was noted for the intense conviction with which he declaimed to his Donna Anna ( in the German text then still generally in use , even at festivals ) the solemn oath , ‘ Ich schwöre ’ . |
| 20 | It was said with a kind of embarrassed formality as if he , not Dalgliesh , were the host and he was apologizing for the unexpected absence of the hostess . |
| 21 | Fair-haired , but perhaps somewhat slight of build for the rigours of the lower reaches of the Football League , Bernard was certainly a fast and cagey winger , and his talent was recognised when he was selected for the 3rd Division South representative side against the 3rd Division North , in the fifth and final match between them at Selhurst Park on 30 October 1957 . |
| 22 | He was searching for the right doctor — he meant a doctor for his soul — and kept falling into the hands of quacks . |
| 23 | She could see that he was searching for the right words , the very thing that would describe what he had felt , what he had experienced at that moment . |
| 24 | God only knew how he had tried to replace her in his thoughts and in his heart — striking relationships with one woman after another , lurching from one crisis to the next , building his business with her in mind … driving himself like a man demented and amassing a fortune , yet knowing all the time that he was striving for the impossible . |
| 25 | Sir John Wolfenden , the then vice-chancellor of Reading University , was chosen to be its Chairman , a job which he was to hold for the three years that the Committee took to produce its Report . |
| 26 | Within a year , he was cooking for the Royal Box and state galas . |
| 27 | In December 1954 he was ridden for the first time by the reigning champion jockey Dick Francis : after the race Francis told Cazalet that he would like to ride Devon Loch one day in the Grand National … |
| 28 | He was known for the refined dandyism of his appearance , the flutterings and oscillations of his bearing , his heavy drinking , and his intense shyness . |
| 29 | Philip of France had sent a force of Brabançons to help his brother-in-law , the opening shot in a campaign which he was to wage for the next thirty years . |
| 30 | After that he was backed for the National and although the urbane Gaselee is not prone to hyperbole he feels that , if he reproduces that Haydock run , Party Politics will take all the beating . |