Example sentences of "[adv] he [verb] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ice on the north coast of Spitsbergen made it impossible to pass Amsterdam Island , and so he made for Franz Josef Land , discovered only in 1873–4 , and partly mapped . |
| 2 | Soon he asked for payment and William complied . |
| 3 | Provided that the service is to be paid for , the accused is guilty whether or not he acted for gain . |
| 4 | But still he searched for ways to bring the conversation round to Tace . |
| 5 | He 's been to say that Bernard has put his wrist out , and it being Danny 's day off he went for Bill , but Bill 's gone over to see his mother in Consett , so he says , what about it , sir ? ’ |
| 6 | When he 's off he qualifies for unemployment benefit , which makes their joint income £49 a week plus child benefit . |
| 7 | As always he waited for Garry to decide what games were to be played . |
| 8 | Thereafter he lived for society and gossip , projecting a ‘ History of his Times ’ , the materials of which were to be his long , delightfully observant letters to his favourite stepdaughter , Elizabeth Ord . |
| 9 | In 1763 he was paid off and two years later he embarked for India . |
| 10 | ‘ Whenever he plays for Arsenal , there always seems to be so much pressure on him . |
| 11 | She felt that really he sang for Mrs Hunnard . |
| 12 | TOMORROW he heads for Bridport in Dorset — a real 26-mile marathon . |
| 13 | Today he appeared for sentence at Warwick Crown Court . |
| 14 | Sometimes he deputises for James Barlow , the butler , whose qualifications — his father is a baronet — are as impeccable as his Edwardian white gloves . |
| 15 | Early in life he went from school to school , sometimes half across Europe ; then he looked for patronage to give him a livelihood . |
| 16 | Then he waited for Louise Taylor to wake from her exhausted sleep . |
| 17 | Then he headed for home . |
| 18 | Then he waved for Mariana . |
| 19 | Then he called for Alvar Fañez and said unto him , Cousin , the poor have no part in the wrong which the King hath done us ; see now that no wrong be done unto them along our road : and he called for his horse . |
| 20 | In the notes at the back of the book Gordon explains how he waited for hours for that one photo . |
| 21 | How he longed for food and a drink . |
| 22 | Indeed he accounted for Alexandra 's own name but not , unfortunately , for her looks . |
| 23 | Instead he shouted for Lieutenant Doggett , then went to the kitchen where he sat and tugged on his boots . |
| 24 | P.S. I do n't know anyone famous from Leeds but I did know Mervyn Day when he played for West Ham . |
| 25 | If radical politics have provided one consistent thread in his career , cricket has been another — going back to his early days in Derbyshire when he played for Littleover in the Notts & Derby Border League and was taught to bowl legcutters by twice-capped county coach Denis Smith : ‘ I suppose I ultimately failed him because in my rebelliousness I refused to have a decent short haircut , ’ he recalls . |
| 26 | Thérèse dared to interrupt his strictures when he paused for breath . |
| 27 | Every day when he left for work , he would leave objects such as a scroll or a limestone flake , or his kohl-pot , a certain measured distance from the edge of the table on which they lay , and from each other . |
| 28 | One of the foremost Spanish Renaissance artists , Siloé executed the three panels between 1519 , when he returned to Italy , and 1528 , when he left for Granada . |
| 29 | He also fathered a child by Marevna ( Maria Vorobiev ) and abandoned both women when he left for Mexico in 1921 . |
| 30 | There 's the one when he scores against Sheff Utd a couple of years ago and takes the piss out of Vineyard , and the one when he scored for Scotland and tried to get his leg over ( oo-er ) the advertising boards . |