Example sentences of "[vb past] he for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His seat is secure but he is also seeing the man who defeated him for the party leadership on the way to another victory for the Tories . |
| 2 | The Welshman kicked the ball away and referee Dangaard dismissed him for a second bookable offence . |
| 3 | Stoughton was even a friend of Matthew Arnold , who proposed him for the Athenaeum . |
| 4 | In September 1316 Edward retained him for a very large fee in return for the promise of his service with a commensurately large retinue ; and shortly afterwards he and Pembroke set off for the papal curia on a mission which had the repeal of the Ordinances as one of its objectives . |
| 5 | The first year that they obtained a vintage of acceptable quality , he sent a dozen cases to his old régisseur to lay down , and invited him for a tasting . |
| 6 | One afternoon I summoned up my courage and as casually as I could I invited him for a drink after work that evening . |
| 7 | And Sinatra punished him for the rest of his life . |
| 8 | Britain 's golden boy who lost his shine when newcomer David Grindley beat him for the final place in today 's 400 metres final is ready to take a year off from the track if it means he can beat the trouble . |
| 9 | It was in 1977 and ‘ 78 that McEvoy won this title before Ronan Rafferty beat him for the first ( and only ) time in nearly 30 matches for England . |
| 10 | In 1954 the publishing firm Methuen approached him for a Christmas card , as did the National Marriage Guidance Council , the latter printing 6,700 copies of his design . |
| 11 | Kevin detained him for a moment . |
| 12 | Prison officials , concerned about his poor health , referred him for a medical examination which confirmed widespread injuries , including marks around the wrist , apparently caused by the hanging , and burns ‘ possibly caused by electrical current . ’ |
| 13 | Her eyes beseeched him for the truth . |
| 14 | He said our flight had been delayed and he 'd spent the time in the bar , and then added , rather unconvincingly , that some woman had insisted on ‘ plying Phaeton with liquor ’ as he put it , but there was a hollowness in the way he said it , and I do n't think either Gill or I believed him for a moment . |
| 15 | ‘ He feels as if you played him for a fool . |
| 16 | To cover the fact that she had far too many feelings altogether , she ignored him for the first part of the morning . |
| 17 | ‘ We do n't want you to be neglected , ’ I told him for the umptieth time . |
| 18 | ‘ Not today , thank you , ’ I told him for the umptieth time . |
| 19 | Fraulein Winkelmann told him for the Good God 's sake to get the papers fast , and Bruno went away and came back and pointed the Luger yet again . |
| 20 | His great-uncle took Charles under his wing and prepared him for the job ahead . |
| 21 | Middlesex , who fined him around £750 for a foul-mouthed outburst earlier in the season , immediately dropped him for the game against Hampshire . |
| 22 | ‘ You dropped him for the Prime Minister . ’ |
| 23 | A journalist interviewed him for a book about his family , and when The Nielsons appeared , it made no mention at all of his professional life . |
| 24 | Two of his greatest performances came in 1979 , with 5 for 38 in the World Cup final and 6 for 29 in the Gillette final for Somerset , although both times Richards pipped him for the match award . |
| 25 | Time was the theme that fired his heart as a young student and affected him for the rest of his life . |
| 26 | It lifted him for a moment before it threw him down , so that for a second he saw what he wanted : that the sea had already overrun the beach and the rocks and the shingle and was advancing like a black wall rimmed with white over the slipways and grasslands of Orphir . |
| 27 | It was an experience which steeled him for the future task of having as many as a dozen major country houses under construction in any one year . |
| 28 | Sometimes he would be able to hire a premium artist , one who paid him for the privilege of playing . |
| 29 | He might be the key to her freedom , but she still hated him for the confusion he aroused in her . |
| 30 | Managing the boat , he was in total command , and she admired him for the ease with which he wove between the countless busy craft , the pleasure boats , gondolas and the small and large ferries , his eyes constantly alert . |