Example sentences of "[noun sg] he [vb past] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Among his patrons was Lord Conway , a wealthy Irish peer whose agent he became for the purchase of rare books in London . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Gong show VIC REEVES , the big lummox , was on television the other night dropping the gong he received for the most original programme . |
| 4 | Walter climbed in beside him , trying hard not to show the fear he felt for the mechanical monster . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | On leaving Oxford without a degree he studied for the stage at the Embassy Theatre School , and made his London début at the Queen 's Theatre on 6 September 1937 with ( Sir ) John Gielgud in Shakespeare 's Richard II . |
| 7 | When I went to live in the attic , Jean-Claude still took it for granted that the wood he needed for the stove should be filched from the railway sidings . |
| 8 | At the beginning of the First World War he sailed for the United States of America and spent the next ten years dividing his teaching between there and England . |
| 9 | As he hung about the Red Anchor he noticed for the first time that its character was changing . |
| 10 | This was very well attended and a committee , with himself as chairman ( a post he held for the next thirty-six years ) , was elected and set to work . |
| 11 | Alex Brown & Sons financial analyst Mark Stahlman , who coined the phrase network computing , has charged IBM with leaning on The Harvard Business Review hard enough to make it pull a 10,000-word article he wrote for the January issue on ‘ Why IBM Failed . ’ |
| 12 | When he left Serbia in 1813 he joined the South Slav community in Vienna , where he came to the notice of the imperial censor for Slavonic languages as a result of an article he wrote for the newspaper Srpske Novine ( Serbian News ) . |
| 13 | Well I know the article he wrote for the Society 's Quarterly . |
| 14 | Certainly the saw he bought for the mill I think that has great prospects and you know there 's no two ways about it , it could help production and ease the work of the workforce . |
| 15 | But likely to be ruled out of the action is full-back Keith Proctor , who has suffered a reaction to his first game back after a six-week injury lay-off he played for the reserves last weekend and is now likely to have to see a specialist about his troublesome knee . |
| 16 | But likely to be ruled out of the action is fullback Keith Proctor , who has suffered a reaction to his first game back after a six-week injury lay-off he played for the reserves last weekend and is now likely to have to see a specialist about his troublesome knee . |
| 17 | When Major Burrows was stationed at a camp in a nearby suburb Mrs Burrows , Eva and Margaret would take a train each Sunday afternoon to help him with the evening service he conducted for the soldiers . |
| 18 | He described himself as the ‘ natural son ’ of his parents on his baptism certificate , and this may explain the affinity he felt for the boy . |
| 19 | The yield to the purchaser then depends on the difference between the price he paid for the bill and its redemption value . |
| 20 | In 1849 Holford purchased the freehold of the old Dorchester House , with its 100 yards of frontage to Park Lane : he chose Lewis Vulliamy [ q.v. ] as his architect to design the Italianate palazzo he planned for the site . |
| 21 | ‘ That philosopher , ’ said Scarlet , who seemed to have forgotten about going home , ‘ the one I was telling you about , he used to go galloping after women all over the place when his hair and his teeth were all falling out , and he used to write about the terrific compassion he felt for the human race , and his breath was foul . |
| 22 | By nightfall he believed he was 30 miles from Lubeck , so next morning he headed for the port along with workpeople . |
| 23 | Hoving proved his own worst enemy , and eventually his taste for the tinsel and show of the art world overtook whatever feeling he had for the art itself , and he left the museum after his cherished Arts Communication Center ( to be funded by Walter Annenberg , with Hoving as its head ) , a nebulous film-studio-cum-information centre to be built in gallery space reserved for the European decorative arts department , was dissolved after much local criticism . |
| 24 | How much of this delightfully frank list of requirements the Earl passed on to the man he approached for the job of chairman , the art historian Sir Kenneth Clark ( Winchester and Oxford ) , is not recorded . |
| 25 | A highly publicised press conference launched his return match with the man he defeated for the world title in 1972 , Boris Spassky . |
| 26 | Leaving at midday he headed for the Tunisian coast in bad weather . |
| 27 | Towards the end of his long life he married for the second time . |
| 28 | In a very matter-of-fact voice he apologised for the shut down , due to engine failure , adding laconically that he had left ten thousand pounds worth of tyres on the runway . |
| 29 | Lane , by way of having a metaphorical dig at the greens , would later speak of how the 20-footer he needed for the outright lead had looked ‘ good in the air . ’ |
| 30 | The tenderness he felt for the child was equal to , if different from , the tenderness he felt for his mother . |