Example sentences of "he [vb past] [verb] for the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He tried to relax for the first time . |
| 2 | He found underpricing for the first third of his data period , and overpricing for the remainder . |
| 3 | William Joyce did the same , without such assistance , and entered his name for Battersea Polytechnic , where he proposed to study for the intermediate examination of the London University BSc degree . |
| 4 | He 'd trusted for the last time . |
| 5 | He happened to work for the same paper which stitched Botham up some eight years ago . |
| 6 | In 1828 he began to write for the fledgling Record newspaper and subsequently became its chief proprietor and the dominant influence on editorial policy for half a century . |
| 7 | As the sopranos of the WI soared off into the upper atmosphere he began to feel for the first time that this Christmas had meaning . |
| 8 | I could see his jeans , shirts , jerseys , everything he needed to wear for the next two days , neatly folded in a drawer in Edinburgh . |
| 9 | The solicitor confirmed in his affidavit that he had photocopied the documents which he sent to counsel for the sole purpose of obtaining legal advice from him . |
| 10 | ‘ He chose to look for the spiritual through the physical , like Rimbaud and Kerouac . |
| 11 | When Charles de la Tremoille was mortally wounded in the battle of Marignano in 1515 , his death brought pride for his family since he died fighting for the public good in an engagement at which the king of France himself had been present . |
| 12 | Graham brought proceedings to a standstill , arguing that he was within his rights to declare even though the rules stated he had to bat for the full 10 overs . |
| 13 | The men from Big Blue originally came to Microsoft 's founder , Bill Gates , to license the programming languages that he had written for the early personal-computer enthusiasts , most of whom had built their own machines . |
| 14 | In March 1985 , he came into conflict with the Lord Chancellor over an article he had written for the Daily Telegraph on Government pressure on the judiciary to shorten sentences and on the inadequacies of the prison system . |
| 15 | Weather conditions precluded this , so he had to wait for the next scheduled plane from Wick to Kirkwall . |
| 16 | Although I 'd followed the progress of the King trial in the papers , it was only then that it began to hit home what a symbol he had become for the suppressed majority of my city . |
| 17 | Further , on appointment he had realised for the first time that the eastern parts of the District remained largely undeveloped by the WEA . |
| 18 | Coleman had gone up on the roof the previous evening for one of his periodic checks of the antennae he had rigged for the listening post . |
| 19 | He mounted the horse he had led for the last hour or so and walked it cautiously down into Buttermere which he entered with the utter conviction that he had been there before . |
| 20 | Gabriel went back and told God what he had done for the three brothers . |
| 21 | Mr McQuaker said he had just left work at the Haughton Road service station at 9pm as he had done for the last 25 years when the youths pounced . |
| 22 | According to the police , Fernandez told the investigating magistrates today he had trained for the past six months for the assault . |
| 23 | The Sejm ( i ) rejected his proposed constitutional changes ; ( ii ) voted to send the presidential draft electoral law to the Constitutional Commission for further examination ; ( iii ) rejected the date of May 26 which he had proposed for the parliamentary elections ; and ( iv ) instead approved the holding of parliamentary elections by Oct. 31 , 1991 . |
| 24 | He had booked for the full residential weekend , as he did every time one was held . |
| 25 | He preferred to drink — ignoring the landlord 's porter — from his silver flask , which he had substituted for the broken glass of brandy . |
| 26 | Grey Egerton , describing in 1852 a fossil fish which he had lithographed for the Geological Survey , could take a more cheerful view , calling it a ‘ pretty little specimen ’ . |
| 27 | He raised the mug to his lips and sipped the hot sugary tea , remembering the day when he had sat for the first time in Mr Corcoran 's office . |
| 28 | He had opted for the cynical , guarded approach , and now he could see that for all the safety it had brought him — here he was , in his second year , still solvent , heart intact , unmugged and even succeeding in his studies , despite all his mother 's fears — every defence had its price , and he had paid in a separating distance , incomprehension . |
| 29 | Physics realised 67 per cent ; History a promising 77 per cent ; and Mathematics was strongest of all , with an average of 77 per cent over three subjects : algebra I and II at 72 per cent and 80 per cent , geometry at 86 per cent and trigonometry at 70 per cent ; ( he admitted to us that he had opted for the latter at school , because it enabled him to evade Latin ! ) . |
| 30 | He rhapsodized about Franklin Roosevelt who , he said , was still regarded " almost as a god in place like West Virginia " , because , although rich , he had worked for the common people . |