Example sentences of "he [verb] [to-vb] for the [noun] " 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 | Dr Mowlam said Jeffrey 's asthma and eczema were getting worse as a result of the stress and worry about the money he has to pay for the medication . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | He refuses to play for the moment , boldly pressing on where others tend to dwell ; yet , with those Philadelphians really turning it on for the composer with whom this orchestra is most indelibly associated , superbly captured in Decca sound of great sumptuousness and tonal allure ( even if not always ideally balanced ) , it all makes for compulsive listening . |
| 6 | Shaking his head sadly at the stark scene he turned to head for the Zoo 's exit . |
| 7 | Leaning back , he began to reach for the packet of cigars , then made a wry face and changed his mind . |
| 8 | He began to reach for the handle with a gloved hand and then pulled nervously back , remembering what had happened to Frye . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Neither the Bodleian nor the British Museum , however , would offer him a place , and in 1889 he began to read for the bar . |
| 11 | A ‘ Coronation ’ tram , No 1174 , swayed into view and he began to run for the stop . |
| 12 | 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 . ’ |
| 13 | It would have been very painful for Muldoon to have to pass on the bad news , so he decided to leave for the States and let the Detroit executive personnel Director handle Mark 's affairs . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | He decided to go for the label of being a careful writer . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | He argued that he has to persist with his Euro flops as he tries to qualify for the World Cup . |
| 18 | He continues to campaign for the right of Catholics to be openly gay . |
| 19 | He had to settle for the seat at Sladen 's right hand , opposite the Assistant Secretary . |
| 20 | In fact then he by that time he was living in Leeds , so he had to pay for the cost of removal from my store to Leeds . |
| 21 | They returned in March 1962 ; he at last finished his essay on George Herbert but , before he could start work on a new play , he had to prepare for the press his early graduate thesis on the work of F. H. Bradley . |
| 22 | He had to compensate for the waste of a visit with his encounters , and with the countryside around the town , the haystacks , the brown earth speckled with whitish spots where the mark showed , so unlike the black earth of Holland . |
| 23 | The only one interested at that time was Thornton , so he had to stay for the moment . |
| 24 | At Monaco , his drive-shaft failed and all he had to show for the race was his twenty-two laps in the lead . |
| 25 | And then , anyone who owed less than £200 had to wait for the start of the next law term in another four months if he wished to apply for the discharge which would come upon his delivering his whole property to the single creditor who had stayed with the process as long as that . |
| 26 | But though he continued to broadcast for the Nazis throughout the war , he was never to match the growth in fame of the new arrival at Charlottenburg . |
| 27 | He continued to play for the club until the age of 65 . |
| 28 | He attempts to account for the prevalence of the placement model despite its lack of apparent success and offers a number of suggestions for reversing the trend to identify and exclude ever-increasing numbers of pupils as deviant . |
| 29 | What was it that so introverted a man as Ludwig Wittgenstein thought he believed in , when he volunteered to fight for the Emperor ? |