Example sentences of "he [verb] for a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Scott inherited the family estate in 1596 , but from 1612 until towards the end of his life he lived for a good part of the year in Canterbury . |
2 | In 1902 he lived for a short period in Clerkenwell , east London . |
3 | ‘ He plays for a mixed side in his spare time and is well up with the rules which is pretty useful because they seem to change every couple of months . ’ |
4 | Catching sight of her , the boy Charles — see him now ! — wants To follow his father 's model : he asks , he begs for a keen horse , Urgently demands weapons , quiver and swift arrows , And craves to go chasing after the doe , just as his father himself would do . |
5 | In 1987 he argued for a beefed-up Neddy with the council meetings chaired by the industry secretary rather than by the chancellor . |
6 | He fought for a local government seat in Islington in 1982 and gained Stockton south from the SDP in 1987 . |
7 | Everything here fed his masochism — as he had known instinctively that it would when he applied for a similar position in the English coalfields some years before , only to be told that he was not mature enough . |
8 | In December 1937 he applied for a short-service commission in the RAF and to his evident amazement was accepted and sent for elementary flying training in 90 m.p.h . |
9 | Repeating a five-year-old falsehood about his nationality , he applied for a one-year renewal of his passport on 24 September 1938 and , on this occasion , repeated what he now knew to be false that he was British by birth . |
10 | In his later life he became for a few months nearly as famous as Ramsey , though in a different context . |
11 | Later still he became for a short time a professor at Cambridge . |
12 | ’ On the north-east corner he asked for a castellated bell tower in which to house the bell he had brought back from Lille . |
13 | The crew of the boat on which he was travelling attacked and were about to kill him when he asked for a last favour — to play a tune . |
14 | ‘ He had wanted to be a doctor since he asked for a medical bag for Christmas when he was six-years-old . |
15 | He said it was the government 's intention to privatize 30-40 per cent of state assets and he asked for a six-month moratorium on trade union pay demands . |
16 | Obviously unwilling , he asked for an absurd sum for doing so , but eventually Omar settled with him for a reasonable amount . |
17 | He asked for an Irish song of love and loss . |
18 | He asked for an urgent meeting with Colonel Easterhouse . |
19 | When he asked for an artificial leg for his newly amputated right leg he was told not only that he could n't have one , but he 'd also have to give up his existing left false leg , which he 'd had for six years . |
20 | His home is presently in Kidderminster from where he weekly commutes while he looks for a new house in the local area . |
21 | Alec Stewart ran himself out as he tried for a sharp single to cover and found Atherton unwilling to budge at the non-striker 's end . |
22 | Former Z-Cars and Softly Softly star Frank Windsor starred in and as Headmaster , written by John Challen and featuring characters he created for an earlier Play for Today slot . |
23 | He stopped for a red light , prepared to make a right-hand turn as soon as the arrow flicked green . |
24 | He stopped for an early beer at a roadside pub in Surrey , then dropped the car off in its lock-up garage and strolled to a cafe for lunch . |
25 | ‘ Go ! ’ she hissed at Ember , but he stopped for an agonizing moment to cover her better . |
26 | Last night he played for a hand-picked team of personal friends against the national side after recent appearances to help out injury-hit Bayern Munich . |
27 | He played for a few seconds with the animal 's jewelled collar then turned his eyes on me . |
28 | Yesterday , as he prepared for a new TV series starting on Sunday , Sir David said he was ‘ truly blessed ’ with an honour . |
29 | I mean he came for a flying visit and he went back did n't he ? he came for a flying visit and went back |
30 | I mean he came for a flying visit and he went back did n't he ? he came for a flying visit and went back |