Example sentences of "[noun sg] he [verb] for " in BNC.

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1 ‘ Until very recently the bedroom he intended for Inez and himself was fully furnished , the bed made , pyjamas laid out , fresh flowers and a ticking clock on the bedside table .
2 She thought his Catholicism , the emotion he mistook for faith , was a pity .
3 Without showing any sign of emotion he stood for a while at the head of the bier .
4 He would accept 20% of these offerings insisting that the bulk he kept for children and dependents .
5 I asked him what future he foresaw for our civilization .
6 Officials of the club he plays for , Brynamman , contacted the WRU yesterday to explain his position after speaking to him .
7 ‘ He told me to look out of the window — he had stolen my car , the car he bought for me .
8 The character of X. Trapnel , for which he served as model , in Anthony Powell 's A Dance to the Music of Time ( 12 vols. , 1951–75 ) gives an impression of the persona he created for himself .
9 Among his patrons was Lord Conway , a wealthy Irish peer whose agent he became for the purchase of rare books in London .
10 Then , during his three years in exile he came for the first time into close contact with the main exponents of the Gregorian ideal , and we must ask how far and in what circumstances he adopted the phraseology of the Gregorian reformers ; then , whether he adopted the theoretical structure which their favourite phrase libertas ecclesiae expressed , or adopted the phrase for use only in exceptional circumstances and for special reasons .
11 After that result he disappeared for a short while , but he returned in time to be included in Wilson 's government , initially as Secretary of State for Economic Affairs , a post he held between 1964 and 1966 .
12 Perhaps he thought powerful attacks on her might produce the result he longed for .
13 On the advice of Lyell and Hooker he arranged for an account of his own theory to be published alongside Wallace 's paper by the Linnean Society of London .
14 No , it was not really disgust he felt for people like Alexai Ybreska ; it was pity .
15 Gong show VIC REEVES , the big lummox , was on television the other night dropping the gong he received for the most original programme .
16 The 26-year-old University of Natal graduate , credited his god with giving him the concentration he needed for his marathon .
17 ‘ Ground Reconnaissance From Public Transport ’ is the title of the pamphlet he produced for our last AGM .
18 Hartlepool was the only candidacy he applied for , or ever intended to .
19 By the advice of his college he competed for a college research Fellowship , known as the Charles Kingsley Bye-Fellowship .
20 COMIC Lenny Henry rivals the grin on the trophy he won for best TV comedy at the Radio Times Comedy and Drama Awards in London yesterday .
21 When it got dark he looked for somewhere else to sit and went to the back of the aircraft by way of the communication tunnel , but quickly got bored .
22 Now , however , Freud expands that concept as well and interestingly enough he goes back to the first term he used for repression .
23 The practice he worked for in Bolton , Lancashire , did not notify the area health authority or tell patients of his illness .
24 Walter climbed in beside him , trying hard not to show the fear he felt for the mechanical monster .
25 The unnerving grey-green eyes narrowed slightly , and as Tara appeared with a tray he gestured for Virginia to sit at the table , his gaze not leaving her as she reluctantly did so .
26 One of the founders so admired the puritan he stood for Parliament in 1968 under the banner of the John Hampden New Freedom Party .
27 It is unfortunate that Dustin did not similarly mime the songs he sings while strumming a guitar ( an instrument he studied for the part ) , because his singing voice is strained and uncomfortably high .
28 The steersman 's platform , with the huge horizontal rudder bar he used for steering , was right beside them .
29 To quote the memoirs : ‘ … on Sunday the 4th August 1793 , after having finished the morning duty he always performed in person , of visiting , prescribing for , and superintending the dressing of the wounds of the horses in the infirmary , he sat down to continue his treatise on the outward conformation of the horse , a work he intended for publication : in a short time he informed Mrs. Vial that he felt himself extremely ill complaining of cold to a degree of shivering , attended with a violent headach [ sic ] , and great thirst .
30 Indeed , he thinks that whereas the master fails to gain a proper sense of himself from the slave , because the slave merely carries out his ( the master 's ) will , the slave does gain a certain degree of self-consciousness by means of the work he performs for the master .
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