Example sentences of "[noun] he be [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hands tightly clenched , Gina broke into the slow , seductive future he was forecasting for them . |
| 2 | ANDREW Fitton , the chief executive of Braithwaite , has withdrawn the consortium bid he was preparing for Eagle Trust , the Midlands mini-conglomerate currently under investigation by the Serious Fraud Office and the West Midlands fraud squad . |
| 3 | He 's got five in six games for Newcastle this season and has scored at every club he 's played for . |
| 4 | Cyril Hollinshead has never been renowned for his batting — but he has taken almost 700 wickets for Gloucestershire Gipsies , the club he 's played for since 1938 . |
| 5 | A car he was heading for to draw his next breath suddenly drove off . |
| 6 | As a result he was suspended for two years , which of course delayed his entry into first-class cricket ; but it taught him a lot . |
| 7 | Together with his twin brother Ronnie he was jailed for life in 1969 for the killing of Jack ‘ The Hat ’ McVitie and is currently serving his sentence at Blundeston Prison near Lowestoft . |
| 8 | At a later interview he was asked for what the Nobel had been awarded ; Eliot replied that he assumed it was for " the entire corpus " and the reporter asked , " When did you publish that ? " |
| 9 | In fact no one knows where it is registered — except of course Noel Smyth and whatever parties he is fronting for . |
| 10 | Lancaster had even told Jane he was searching for his wife . |
| 11 | Sect leader David Koresh , who claims he is Jesus Christ , has told negotiators he is waiting for a ‘ message from God ’ before deciding what to do next . |
| 12 | Thinking about the past , helping to build a cupboard , playing in the village band or photographing the bootmaker and the carpenter , Mr Spender seems contented and within the Tuscany he was looking for when he was , as he says , tired of the ‘ thin blue light of London ’ . |
| 13 | That 's right the tenth replacement depot in Lichfield and they used to come round to Walsall looking for absentees and deserters and they there was actually a shooting match in Street the MPs started firing the guns at these fellas who 'd gone absent without leave , and , but as I understand I remember at the time there was a lot of racism in America then and they , they picked these coloured fellas up and apparently the C O at Lichfield was very much a southern colonel and he was a racist and they used to chain these coloured guys up behind the trucks and make them walk all the way back to Lichfield behind the trucks driving the trucks at walking pace and I understand there was a , a salver , a commemorative salver in the Town Hall to be presented to him , and some an MP in the Council he were looking for this colonel , but as I understand he was court-martialled after the war for racism and so I do n't think he 'd be wanting , wanted to be connected with Walsall any more , so but this was |
| 14 | And I heard Monks say that he 'd seen Oliver in the street , and that he knew at once Oliver was the child he was looking for , although I could n't hear why . |
| 15 | For I have no doubt of the welcome he is preparing for Hector when they meet . |
| 16 | Any one of them could have been the girl he was looking for , with or without a bandage . |
| 17 | After his return he was sent for by the Mamluk sultan who wished to learn from him the state of affairs in Rum ; and he entered Cairo on either 4 Safar 823/19 February 1420 ( Ibn Hajar and al-Sayrafi ) or Tuesday 4 Rabi'I 823/Tuesday 19 March 1420 ( al-Makrizi . |
| 18 | And the stone seats beside the fire would be replaced with benches , once Cameron brought the rest of the spare timber he had promised from the linen mill he was building for the Flemyngs at Aberfeldy . |
| 19 | In all his court appearances he was noted for his calmness and composure . |
| 20 | Because he had actually found the cut wires he was grilled for several days , as were several other suspects , all electricians . |
| 21 | It was some time before Jean-Claude found the place he was looking for . |
| 22 | The place he was making for was at the end of the spit of land and he was driving directly into the sun . |
| 23 | Is it not time the hon. Gentleman did the job he is paid for and stood up for British sport ? |
| 24 | Now he was doing the job he was trained for , treating real patients . |
| 25 | ‘ The point is , ’ he continued firmly , ‘ if Kemp is locked up he obviously is n't going to be available to do the job he was hired for . |
| 26 | Having looked at the studio from the outside he was prepared for squalor , but a basic orderliness surprised him . |
| 27 | She may just have vital information that will give Bob the lead he 's looking for . ’ |
| 28 | Mr Major will now face a rough ride when he reports to the Commons on the summit tomorrow instead of the cheers of approval he was hoping for . |
| 29 | Edward 's trouble was that the tell-tales he was looking for , the subtle marks of treachery , were the main — and open — subject of the conversation . |
| 30 | That day he came into Frank Green 's shop he was looking for me , and his seeing me with you nearly blew the whole thing . |