Example sentences of "he [be] [vb pp] for a [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | An earlier hero , in The Black Prince ( 1973 ) , is a failed writer who creatively fulfils himself only in the enforced loneliness of a prison cell when he is convicted for a murder he has not committed . |
2 | ‘ He 's played for a decade for his country , he 's been an inspirational player . |
3 | He 's confused for a bit . |
4 | He was hospitalised for a week . |
5 | He was remanded for a week . |
6 | This allowed Innocent in 1199 to intervene , as he was asked for a dispensation . |
7 | He was asked for a ride by another boy , who never returned the bike . |
8 | He was prepared for a battle if the porter turned out to be as difficult a customer as his wife . |
9 | He was tempted for a moment to leave his questioning till later , till a better time , but Holdfast had his own ideas . |
10 | He was born for a hanging , that one . |
11 | He was pressed for a date and told ‘ before tonight I always thought of you as a child — but you 're not . ’ |
12 | Hsu himself grew up in eastern China but his account is evidently a syncretic blend of what he learned as a child from personal experience and what he learned as an adult , several thousand miles away to the west , during fourteen months ' fieldwork in the Yunnanese city of Tali-fu , where he was employed for a while as a teacher in a local missionary college . |
13 | In the bronze medal fight against Axel Lobenstein , of East Germany , White appeared to start with more aggressive determination , but his attacks were way off target and he was thrown for a yuko ( five points ) as he got up off the ground . |
14 | He was marked for a fade-out long before the finish . |
15 | But he was banned for a year — because he was well over the alcohol limit at the time . |
16 | In August 1920 , almost by chance , he was attached for a year to the small peacetime signal intelligence organization in London , and was then posted to Simla in India , where for eight years he performed cipher-breaking duties with remarkable success . |
17 | The Mr Universe competition brought him to London , and he was recruited for a tour of South Pacific which needed men for the chorus . |