Example sentences of "for [pron] he [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He could emulate neither the austere aristocracy of Pius XII , whom he revered and always defended , nor the comfortable geniality of John XXIII for whom he felt great affection ( dating back to 1925 ) . |
| 2 | He also ignored the extent to which the concrete policies of Derry Labour , as distinct from its rhetoric , were the common currency of all opponents of the Unionist Party , including the Nationalists , for whom he had boundless contempt . |
| 3 | Naturally , Eliot was pleased about my enthusiasm for Collingwood , for whom he had considerable regard ; but although he told me he liked the Essay on Philosophical Method , which had appeared in 1933 and concerning which I had attended Collingwood 's lecture-course in my first year , I could see that he was more interested in such works as A. E. Taylor 's Faith of a Moralist , or more directly theological works , such as those of Jacques Maritain . |
| 4 | This in turn brought him into contact with Owen Jones , the Superintendent of the Exhibition , for whom he wrote two introductions to Jones ' Grammar of Ornament , first published in 1856 . |
| 5 | Wing-half John was forced to retire from professional soccer with a back injury after a distinguished career with Luton , for whom he played 218 games from 1953–1962 , scoring 16 goals , and then Bournemouth . |
| 6 | Having entered the Merchant Navy at the age of fifteen , he had jumped ship into the US Navy and ended in the Royal Navy for whom he played seventeen seasons of rugby . |
| 7 | His desk is rimmed with pictures of prominent people — a senator , a Saudi prince , an ambassador — patients for whom he has retarded death by cancer . |
| 8 | One of Roche 's most famous clients was the mighty CBS , for whom he undertook four CEO searches in the nine years between 1971 and 1980 . |
| 9 | Back in Ireland he continued with his duties at the Society for which he made mineralogical tours of Galway and Mayo ( 1825 ) , Donegal ( 1826 ) , Antrim , Down , and Londonderry ( 1828 ) , and Londonderry and Tyrone ( 1829 ) . |
| 10 | There are also biographical details from the author 's life , especially the accidental shooting of his own wife in 1951 , for which he spent 13 days in a Mexican jail . |
| 11 | E7.93 The European Environmental Bureau : To note that the Director was nominated as the UK EEB members ' representative to an EEB conference on coastal protection development held in Denmark on 1st & 2nd May for which he received European Commission funding . |
| 12 | In late 1925 he was one of twelve leading communists arrested and tried on charges of sedition and incitement to mutiny , for which he received twelve months ' imprisonment . |
| 13 | My Lords , this is an appeal brought by the Director of Public Prosecutions with the leave of the Court of Appeal ( Criminal Division ) [ 1991 ] 1 W.L.R. 1334 from a decision of that court on 22 April 1991 allowing the appeal of the respondent defendant , Edwin Gomez , against his convictions on 20 and 24 April 1990 at Isleworth Crown Court on two counts of theft , for which he received concurrent sentences of two years ' imprisonment , and quashing those convictions . |
| 14 | His outstanding contribution was to the Dictionary of National Biography , for which he wrote 778 biographies covering the period from the eleventh to the twentieth centuries . |
| 15 | The would-be assassins missed their prey , and Phar Lap , unperturbed by the incident , duly won the Stakes and then ran one of his most brilliant races to lift the Cup , for which he carried nine stone twelve pounds and started at 11–8 on , the shortest-priced favourite in the history of the race . |
| 16 | He appeared regularly in the shop , invariably walking out with yet another purchase for which he had scant use . |
| 17 | Also in 1893 he undertook the restoration of St Peter 's Church , West Knighton , the only restoration for which he had sole responsibility , at a time when he was writing Jude the Obscure . |
| 18 | In place of God-consciousness , for which he had little time , he wanted to put on the one hand the revelation made in Jesus and recoverable through the historical study of the New Testament , and on the other the moral and spiritual response to Jesus which issues in Christian living and acting . |
| 19 | These attacks included sexually assaulting an elderly woman during a burglary ; heterosexual rape ; rape of women when their husbands , brothers or boyfriends were watching ; homosexual rape ( for which he got five times as long a prison sentence as for heterosexual rape ) ; as well as burglary . |
| 20 | Violence was the only crime for which he found any link with unemployment . |
| 21 | His rewards from the latter , over his long career , had included the manors of Whaddon ( Buckinghamshire ) and Ringwood ( Hampshire ) , the wardship of the land and heirs of Theobald Butler in Ireland ( for which he paid 3,000 marks ) , and ‘ for his immense and laudable service ’ the whole cantred of the Isles in Thomond . |
| 22 | Goody , then , sees the activities of Pythagoras and his followers as quite different from the flowering of logic , scientific clarity , lack of ambiguity , scepticism etc. for which he praises classical Greece . |
| 23 | But in Che soffre , speri his librettist took a bolder step for which he needed other composers , the younger Mazzocchi and Marazzoli . |
| 24 | As a young man , Gerald had suffered a severe bladder infection for which he needed prolonged treatment with antibiotics . |
| 25 | A Mr J. Franklin from Beachampton , who worked in the Smithy , used to trap and bring rabbits to work every Monday morning when they were in season , for which he charged 2s 6d ( 12. ½p ) each . |
| 26 | In the early part of his career he had made a number of smaller , better films such as The Stripper ( 1963 ) and The Best Man ( 1964 ) , before embarking on bigger and more portentous projects such as The War Lord ( 1965 ) and The Planet of the Apes ( 1967 ) , both with Charlton Heston baring his teeth and chest ; Patton ( 1969 ) , an ambiguous biopic about a modern war lord ( for which he won Best Director Oscar ) ; and Nicholas and Alexandra ( 1971 ) , a tedious and simplistic Tsar-trek . |
| 27 | ‘ He feels nothing but horror and shame for what he did that night ’ , said Mr Vass . |
| 28 | ‘ Dr Neil , or Dr Cochrane , if you please , ’ he said , remaining determinedly cool — to reproach her , no doubt , for what he considered misplaced pity . |
| 29 | Hughlings Jackson ( 1874 ) was of the opinion that though the left hemisphere was responsible for what he termed propositional speech the right hemisphere could undertake " the automatic revival " of words , particularly under conditions of great emotion . |
| 30 | Joanna said , ‘ I had an uncle — he 's dead now , but I used to spend a lot of time in his surgery — and , apart from the essentials , he never went in for what he called expensive gimmicks . |