Example sentences of "[noun sg] 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| 2 | ANDREW Fitton , the chief executive of Braithwaite , has withdrawn the consortium bid he was preparing for Eagle Trust , the Midlands mini-conglomerate currently under investigation by the Serious Fraud Office and the West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 | 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 ? " |
| 8 | 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 |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | For I have no doubt of the welcome he is preparing for Hector when they meet . |
| 11 | Any one of them could have been the girl he was looking for , with or without a bandage . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | It was some time before Jean-Claude found the place he was looking for . |
| 15 | The place he was making for was at the end of the spit of land and he was driving directly into the sun . |
| 16 | Is it not time the hon. Gentleman did the job he is paid for and stood up for British sport ? |
| 17 | Now he was doing the job he was trained for , treating real patients . |
| 18 | ‘ 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 . |
| 19 | Having looked at the studio from the outside he was prepared for squalor , but a basic orderliness surprised him . |
| 20 | She may just have vital information that will give Bob the lead he 's looking for . ’ |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Oxford old boy John Aldridge was looking for his 40th goal of the season … it came just two minutes after Durnin 's … and gave Aldridge the eclub record he was looking for . |
| 24 | The young health correspondent on a new glossy mag he was freelancing for said it could be one of three things . |
| 25 | But when she opened the door of her room he was waiting for her . |
| 26 | In this particular respect Morse ( suggesting the likelihood of the Botley Road area ) had got things quite wrong , for it was at the Hertz ‘ Rent-a-Car ’ offices at the top of the Woodstock Road where Dixon had finally spotted the name he was looking for with all the excitement of a young angler just hooking a heavyweight pike . |
| 27 | Then one day he was sent for by the refining director and given twenty-four hours to make up his mind about a posting to the United States . |
| 28 | The friend he 's looking for served with the Royal Military Police in Austria from . |
| 29 | The same actor , Tom Courtenay , plays the Borstal boy in Tony Richardson 's The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner ( 1962 ) who loses the race he 's trained for as a way to spite the governor . |
| 30 | Juul was undefeated by an opponent in his four scheduled rides although in heat 13 when he came out for an extra race he was disqualified for unfair riding when bringing down Donny Odom and Steve Regeling . |