Example sentences of "he [verb] [verb] for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Watch him wobble onto the dance floor as he goes looking for a decent record collection ( ie no Alice Cooper or Frank Zappa ) in CodeMasters ' happenin' hit … |
| 2 | The badges of honour he sports on his veteran 's beret when he goes dining for the old soldiers ' vote gave his plea a sort of authority . |
| 3 | He tried to relax for the first time . |
| 4 | He found underpricing for the first third of his data period , and overpricing for the remainder . |
| 5 | Wright is not that much of a loss — in the games he has played for the national team which i have seen he has not been up to par . |
| 6 | He is nevertheless expected to have an easy win in the Lyons constituency he has represented for the past 13 years . |
| 7 | He has called for the compulsory registration of all property transactions in an attempt to stop the use of secret deals . |
| 8 | Forest want an answer from Keane by the end of this week and he has asked for an extra couple of days to iron out the finer details . |
| 9 | This year Mansell has finally claimed the championship he has chased for a dozen years . |
| 10 | This year Mansell has finally claimed the championship he has chased for a dozen years . |
| 11 | He has to leave for an important luncheon party in a few minutes . ’ |
| 12 | On the contrary , he has pressed for a centralised federation in which Serbia would presumably play a dominant role . |
| 13 | In a wide ranging and at times overtly anti-communist speech , described by the Guardian of March 30 as " more measured and specific than any he has given for a long time " , Yeltsin pilloried central government policy , labelling perestroika the " last phase of the stagnation period " . |
| 14 | Since he resigned as defence secretary over the Westland helicopter affair in 1986 , he has campaigned for an active industrial policy . |
| 15 | Not only is the seat he has held for the past 15 years , in the Yvelines to the west of Paris , now under serious threat , but so too is the whole political future and his dream of a new social democratic movement . |
| 16 | After all , the Minister is always returning to the House to tell us what a wonderful deal he has got for the British farmer and consumer . |
| 17 | He has informed his doctors and begun the painful process to negate the effects of the hormones he has taken for the last nine months . |
| 18 | Right so , you know , there are those who would teach that Jesus he would die for our sins and he 's forgiven us sins , but only those who come to him , Jesus died for the sin of the whole world , for every man , woman , boy and girl that has ever lived or ever will live , he died for the sin of the whole world , not just for those even who lived after his death , that 's why it talks about in the Old Testament people like Abraham looking for that day , and so Jesus who in , when he died , because he 's eternal , so we 've got the problems with time , God has n't got problems with time , he 's eternal and so his sacrifice , the sacrifice of him on the cross was effective for Abraham as it is for you , it was as effective for David as it was for Paul otherwise Abraham would never of had his sins forgiven because what happened with all the sacrifice with all the little lambs that were killed and all the goats and all the rest they only acted as a covering for sin , did n't take them away , it covered them , what for , until the moment when Jesus would come and would take those sins away and so when you think of David 's sin , his adultery and his murder , how does he get forgiven for that because Jesus died from the cross and he takes upon himself David 's sin and he takes upon him Abraham 's sin and Noah 's sin and Adam 's sin , just as much as your sin and the person who will be born in ten years time their sin also , all our sins er as Gloria just read there from , from one John to two they were all of him he has died for every one , well that 's his humiliation , hurry along quickly now his exhortation , the period from Jesus 's resurrection onward is referred to as to the , as the state of exhortation , now what does that term mean , well as Jesus according to his divine nature has always been , he was always every where , now in his human nature , before , be , sorry it 's not , it 's not on that one , but before he , he came to earth , he was every where , he was God , he was , he was omnia present that means he was every where at the same time , but he takes upon himself he 's su , he 's , he 's human nature and he takes upon himself the limitations and when Jesus is walking down second avenue in , in Jerusalem he 's not in Nazareth that 's why there were times when people came to er , to , to , came rushing out because they heard that Jesus was passing by , see he was n't there resident with them , he passed by , now he 's gone back to heaven and where is he , he 's in heaven , he , er whereabouts , where do you think Jesus is now , that resurrected body that was glorified that has gone back to heaven , where do you think it is |
| 19 | His texts were like epic editions of the famous WFMT Chicago radio show he has hosted for the past 35 years , in which he encourages but never intrudes . |
| 20 | That the miller 's knives substitute for his sexual potency rather than reflect it is indicated by the superiority of the clerk 's performance in bed with his wife to anything he has managed for a long time : He has fathered two children , but , like Bayard , his sexual energy is now exhausted . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | It was a request from a colleague : he 'd be grateful if she could cast her eye over an article he 'd written for a quarterly journal , by Friday if possible . |
| 23 | And although her slenderness gave her an air of fragility , Guy had felt the gentle curves of her body when he 'd searched for a concealed weapon . |
| 24 | He 'd trusted for the last time . |
| 25 | Was he going to give her some note on performance , some idea he 'd had for a new bit of business in the play ? |
| 26 | It was as if , having goaded her to the point of total capitulation , he 'd opted for a wary cooling-off period . |
| 27 | Etheridge , English-born with Irish parentage , replaces Neil Francis , who withdrew last week because of business commitments , and he intends to play for the Irish Exiles side in their provincial championship debut next season . |
| 28 | He happened to work for the same paper which stitched Botham up some eight years ago . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |