Example sentences of "he [verb] [adv] [adj] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1853 he became a partner in Joseph Crosfield & Son ; and after the death of Morland and George 's move to London in 1875 , he became solely responsible for the firm . |
| 2 | He noticed too that for the first time since he had arrived at the Cages there was a total silence , as if all the eagles , and all the imprisoned creatures thereabout had instinctively understood that this old eagle 's troubled painful words marked an end to a terrible life ; and perhaps in some strange way the beginning of something none dared hope might come to pass . |
| 3 | Tim Roberts , defending , said : ‘ He feels so responsible for the injuries caused to the family and wants to admit the offence and be punished for it . ’ |
| 4 | He felt somehow responsible for the way she was behaving , as if he should have spotted it sooner , caught on sooner . |
| 5 | He remembered his wife mentioning to him that some immigrants had moved into the street , and , because he knew that neither Donna nor Mrs Stych would bother to call on immigrants , he felt vaguely sorry for the newcomers ' isolation . |
| 6 | He looked too big for the room as he seated himself in one of the armchairs . |
| 7 | In the eighteenth century he would have become prime minister before he was thirty ; as it was he appeared honourably ineligible for the struggle of life . |
| 8 | He served in the war with the Essex Yeomanry in France , where he was twice wounded ; he remained partially deaf for the rest of his life . |
| 9 | His willingness to rethink everything aroused the hostility of the left ; but he remained too leftwing for the right , and his shadow cabinet ratings sunk . |