Example sentences of "he [vb past] [verb] for the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You 've got to be kidding ! ’ yelped Margaret Lenham , as much astonished as afraid at the sight of what he planned to use for the operation : a knitting needle . |
| 2 | He failed to allow for the fact that Lucasta Redburn could not bear to throw away anything that might one day come in useful . |
| 3 | yeah , he got charged for the commander |
| 4 | He got paid for the work that erm |
| 5 | He found working for the Maharajah so enjoyable that he refused to accept one penny in payment for his 18 years ' service , although the Maharajah supplied all his material needs . |
| 6 | ‘ That he 'd arranged for the bank to cash cheques on his and my signature until all this is settled . ’ |
| 7 | He reached for one of the sticks he 'd collected for the pheasant trap . |
| 8 | The act he 'd devised for the Easter Fete was a black mass . |
| 9 | So I called back again and the number was engaged , so I called back again and got through and he 'd left for the day |
| 10 | Mike Towers , with a background of newspaper journalism — he 'd worked for the Evening World in Bristol — assumed control of " Here Today " and he went for a harder , more newsy approach . |
| 11 | When I asked him to itemize the price , so I could add it up for myself , the total came to over £100 less than he 'd quoted for the bundle . |
| 12 | All he 'd got for the mite was a tatty old kite |
| 13 | Soon after the Second World War , in which he worked with ENSA ( or ‘ Every-Night-Something-Awful ’ , as he called it ) , he came to work for the music publishing firm of R. Smith and Co Ltd and served as editor of British Bandsman ( the brass band world 's leading newspaper since 1887 ) for 15 years . |
| 14 | Shaking his head sadly at the stark scene he turned to head for the Zoo 's exit . |
| 15 | Leaning back , he began to reach for the packet of cigars , then made a wry face and changed his mind . |
| 16 | He began to reach for the handle with a gloved hand and then pulled nervously back , remembering what had happened to Frye . |
| 17 | As they passed the alimentari ( shut , as it might be forever ) and then plunged off the road into the shadows of the bramble-lined single track , Haverford quoted , as he had been waiting to do ever since they left Heathrow : ‘ ‘ In the middle of the journey of our life , I found myself lost in a dark wood , ’ ’ he began to translate for the benefit of the children , but they were all , including the baby , asleep now and Molly thought that for her father to pretend to be in the middle of his life was a bit of a cheek anyway . |
| 18 | He began digging for the pipe , which was expected to be about half a metre down . |
| 19 | Neither the Bodleian nor the British Museum , however , would offer him a place , and in 1889 he began to read for the bar . |
| 20 | A ‘ Coronation ’ tram , No 1174 , swayed into view and he began to run for the stop . |
| 21 | After all , Mozart was only five when he started composing for the piano and look what happened to him . |
| 22 | He started studying for the degree with in 1986 . |
| 23 | Gilman employed ‘ scientific ’ experiments described by him as follows : ‘ The observer , an intelligent man with good eyesight , and well accustomed to museums and their contents , was instructed to answer the questions with the least possible exertion and to hold the position he needed to assume for the purpose until he could be photographed . ’ |
| 24 | He joined the RAF fresh from A-levels and says he decided to go for the degree so he would have another string to his bow . |
| 25 | He decided to go for the label of being a careful writer . |
| 26 | He was a financial and moral pillar of the Catholic Church , and Mary Rose devoted herself to committees and fund-raising when he decided to run for the Senate . |
| 27 | As the constitutional deadline for the government 's term in office approached , Labour MPs increasingly sought to avert electoral disaster by calling on Palmer to step down in favour of Moore , whom he had defeated for the leadership in August 1989 . |
| 28 | Cross-examined by Donald Macfadyen , QC , for the defence , Mr Malcolm read from a note he had written for the firm 's compliance director which said Mackie had asserted he had made no mention of an impending profits warning . |
| 29 | This was precisely the way in which Inspector Porfiry in Dostoevsky 's Crime and Punishment homed in on the culprit Raskolnikov , a man who was also damned by a paper : an article he had written for the Periodical Magazine , months before , offering justifications for certain sorts of crimes . |
| 30 | Edward IV himself was reputedly disappointed by the turn out , probably because he had hoped for the backing of the Percy connection , which the restored earl of Northumberland proved unable to mobilize . |