Example sentences of "he [verb] [vb pp] for a [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | He seeks more time and he has asked for a year or more . |
2 | If you do intend to use it , you register the program with the author , and pay whatever fee he has specified for a licence to continue using it . |
3 | He has appealed for a halt to the fighting , warning anybody who will listen that the Arab world is headed ‘ for a period of turbulence like never before ’ . |
4 | Even his genetic code was noted , from when he 'd applied for a work permit , but no matter how subtly Reynard interrogated , no matter how bright his ideas of lateral interrogation , every time he drew blank . |
5 | After that , he 'd headed for a street in north-west London that he had n't visited in over a year . |
6 | Well he told me he 'd gone for a count |
7 | He said he 'd gone for a count for a job |
8 | He fell asleep , but hours later he woke up and felt again — as he 'd felt for a moment in the hall when he 'd arrived — that he should n't be in this house . |
9 | He 'd thought for a moment that the fates had it in for him . |
10 | Gorelli , he 'd won for a while , but now he was losing , and he was losing big . |
11 | He bought groceries to last him the week , then popped next door to the frame shop to pick up the stainless steel frame he 'd ordered for a James Barker black and white print he 'd obtained in an auction some weeks before . |
12 | He seemed destined for a career as an engineer like his father , but with much brighter prospects . |
13 | He had suspected for a while that Nancy had become tired of Bill Sikes ' brutality and violence , and that she had found a new friend to take his place . |
14 | A little later from his bedroom , where he had retired for a rest , he watched through his daughters ' brass telescope as the grey shadow of what had once been the sleek and lively Hari moved slowly over to the sepoy lines with , as usual , the Prime Minister dodging along behind am . |
15 | Commander Michael Porter , Tory chairman of the council 's education committee , said he had hoped for a decision that would ‘ provide us with a way to achieve the best possible education for pupils in south Reading , allowing us to set up a super new school designed for the demands of the 21st century , and a sixth form college . ’ |
16 | He had hoped for a snort at least for this , but Rosie did not react . |
17 | He had lived for a time in England , and we discussed whether to conduct the session in English or German . |
18 | In his choice of contributor Lehmann was able to draw upon his wide-ranging contacts , for he had lived for a period in Vienna and had also travelled Europe in search of material . |
19 | He had applied for a grant but at the time Liverpool City Council was snowed under by applications . |
20 | And at Old Trafford yesterday , Cantona denied that he had asked for a transfer or that his working relationship with Wilkinson had suffered any breakdown . |
21 | He pushed the door open and wished he had asked for a candle . |
22 | It was n't as if he had asked for a fee , he had gone to the school for nothing , out of the goodness of his heart . |
23 | It struck me as odd at the time , and when Harry Collins told me that he had asked for a morning appointment it seemed even odder . ’ |
24 | On his way to the office he had asked for a thermos of coffee to be sent to him and two mugs and a bowl of sugar and some milk . |
25 | She stared at him defiantly , and after he had ranted for a minute or so , the chief superintendent felt vaguely ridiculous so he lowered his frame into a cowering chair , and resumed the final polish of his palms . |
26 | Like a little puppy dog , he had waited for a sign that he was forgiven . |
27 | He had sent for a copy , but the bureaucratic machine seemed to be taking its time . |
28 | It was a bay horse on its side , and the waving object he had taken for a branch was a leg which in its faint struggles to rise the beast threshed weakly in the air . |
29 | He had thought for a moment that Hoomey was going to ask him back , but he knew he was n't the sort of friend that nice mothers were all that pleased to see . |
30 | Until yesterday this was the nearest Mike Cratchley thought he was going to get to the chateau he had booked for a group holiday this summer . |