Example sentences of "[vb past] he [to-vb] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Friends invited him to apply for the Readership in Geometry at Gresham 's College , and a wealthy London merchant offered him £10,000 to take his daughter in marriage . |
| 2 | The Executive Council under Sir Paw Tun were inert and helpless , and later that morning I went to the Governor to say that I did not think we could hold the situation any longer without grave risk , and advised him to call for the resignation of the Executive Council . |
| 3 | When he first came into the Hampshire team , Greenidge 's natural inclination was to attack every ball , and it was Richards more than anyone who taught him restraint , taught him to wait for the bad ball . |
| 4 | The last heard of Gert was in 1943 when he tried and failed to join the RA F. Bloomsbury House urged him to settle for the Pioneers . |
| 5 | I was the one who recommended him to try for the job . |
| 6 | But he so impressed bosses they asked him to apply for the more senior post of general marketing director . |
| 7 | It was Ben Crenshaw who persuaded him to enter for the 1981 Open . |
| 8 | The revenues it generated — well over £2 million — were what enabled him to bid for the factory at Earby , only a couple of miles over the hill from Barnoldswick . |
| 9 | Before leaving London I had sent him , as requested , two questions about the U-boat war which I wanted him to answer for the programme . |