Example sentences of "he [verb] for [noun sg] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those that he produced for sale through the Redfern Gallery were usually printed in editions of fifty and include Thames-side , Bull Fight , Spain , Tropical Landscape , Horse Guards in their Dressing Rooms at Whitehall and Working Men 's College , this last relating to his association with the Working Men 's College in Crowndale Road , Mornington Crescent , where he gave a lecture , ‘ The Painter 's Intention ’ , in 1952 , taught lithography and also acted as Art Adviser . |
| 2 | Further honours awaited him at Bologna , where he applied for membership of the Accademia Filarmonica . |
| 3 | He asked for prayer about the journey to Jerusalem , knowing the tensions that existed between the Christians who had been of the Jewish faith , and those who were converted Gentiles . |
| 4 | A docker was never sure what to expect when he reported for work in the morning . |
| 5 | In 1946 he reported for duty in the English Department with another young lecturer , a modernist called Henry Gifford . |
| 6 | He goes up every year and nicks what he wants for Christmas for the kids . |
| 7 | It was Maradona 's first appearance against an Italian outfit since he played for Napoli in a 4–1 defeat by Sampdoria in March 1991 . |
| 8 | He yearned for escape to a place and an audience which would appreciate his talents to the full . |
| 9 | He adds that to one he received for work during the Hungerford massacre five years ago . |
| 10 | During a mass in Cape Verde on Jan. 25 , he said that the developments in Eastern Europe should not lead to the international community forgetting the plight of the Third World , while in Mali on Jan. 28 he appealed for harmony between the Christian and Moslem religions . |
| 11 | Further , he appealed for action in a field he wished to make his own , the " war on poverty " . |
| 12 | He appealed for leniency on the grounds that nothing had been touched . |
| 13 | In Oman on April 3 he appealed for intervention by the Arab League and the Organization of African Unity . |
| 14 | He arrived for work at the Army School of Physical Training at 0730 hours . |
| 15 | Peter Gallagher , a 44-year-old Catholic , was killed as he arrived for work at the West Link Enterprise Centre off the Grosvenor Road . |
| 16 | He returned for work at the normal hour without it . ’ |
| 17 | He prayed for help to the Virgin and was released unscathed . |
| 18 | ‘ He worked for Abwehr for a while . |
| 19 | He worked for Abwehr for a while . |
| 20 | While publishing Dawson on ‘ Religion and the Totalitarian State ’ , he selected for notice in the 1934 Criterion a book highlighting persecution of European Jews ; he wrote to Pound speaking of his offence at Pound 's antisemitic remarks ; with regard to the Vichy government in 1941 he wrote in The Christian News-Letter of his ‘ greatest anxiety ’ at news ‘ that ‘ Jews have been given a special status , based on the laws of Nuremberg , which makes their condition little better than that of bondsmen . ’ |
| 21 | He went for advice to a firm of solicitors . |
| 22 | He spent the black hours best in the writing of hopelessly happy propositions to her that he kept for comfort in a drawer , as if they were love letters received from her instead of dead ones from himself that he saw no good in posting . |
| 23 | As with his architectural assaults , he trawled for information from a wide range of experts in the environmental field , including the pressure group Friends of the Earth , whose director at that time was Jonathon Porritt . |
| 24 | He looked for fulfilment in the complete dedication of his being to the vocation which pushed him irresistibly towards painting and painting with joy . |
| 25 | He shivers for feel of the world licking his side . |
| 26 | So when a chaplain goes to war as he did for example in the Falklands , he goes with his men erm and he 's erm not armed at all . |
| 27 | I will tell my steward that I am taking you on to the staff as — ’ he paused for thought for a moment' — as a tax consultant . |
| 28 | Ensign Piper had been only a short time in Australia when he volunteered for duty in the convict settlement on Norfolk Island . |
| 29 | I shall telephone him at home before he leaves for work in the morning . |
| 30 | In April 1688 he stood for election to the Camden chair of history , but was beaten by his High Church rival , Henry Dodwell [ q.v. ] , whose canvasser Proast was . |