Example sentences of "[Wh det] he [vb past] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Following the Emperor 's address , Prime Minister Toshiki Kaifu read a congratulatory statement on behalf of the Japanese people in which he appealed for the construction of a country which was energetic , culturally rich and dedicated to the promotion of international peace and co-operation . |
| 2 | Their small mission accomplished , Tennyson and Hallam sank back to being tourists , and Tennyson never forgot the scenery around Cauterets , which he associated for the rest of his long life with the happiness he had felt when travelling there with the beloved but now dead Hallam . |
| 3 | John was full of invention , always making up steps and sequences which he called by odd names : for instance a stamping step he called ‘ Sherman tanks ’ , which he devised for the zephyrs in Primavera and used again for the unicorns in Harlequin in April . |
| 4 | While one takes into account the concern of Calvin and the reformers for the balance between the light of scripture and the inner light and direction given to individuals an experience vouchsafe for countless times in both the Old and New Testaments also remembering our lord 's own use of silence in prayer and I believe the increasing use of silence in modern worship and may I also say how very impressed I was by Dr 's prayer at the opening of this assembly in which he asked for the guidance of God and indeed your own equally eloquent prayer on Sunday evening Moderator open to the prompting and leading and guiding of God 's spirit . |
| 5 | This article was followed by a reply from BC 's finance director , in which he argued for the appropriateness of the Board 's accounting policies . |
| 6 | In the editorial which he wrote for the last issue , he discussed the general political situation which had provoked in him a depression of spirit so different from anything he had experienced in the last fifty years as " to be a new emotion " ; but he also confessed to a feeling of staleness as editor . |
| 7 | The ‘ special areas ’ legislation of the prewar national coalition government stemmed partly from a series of unsigned articles — ‘ Places without a Future ’ — which he wrote for The Times in 1934 . |
| 8 | In August 1971 , the same year in which he married for the second time , Canetti 's brother , Georg , was dying . |
| 9 | President Bush had made it part of his re-election campaign to attacked the alleged incompetence and corruption of the Democrat-controlled Congress , which he blamed for the shortcomings of the Republican administration . |
| 10 | His visit , during which he apologised for the French role in the Rainbow Warrior affair , marked a considerable improvement in bilateral relations [ see p. 38153 ; but see also p. 38345 for New Zealand condemnation of the honouring of the French agent involved in the Rainbow Warrior affair ] . |
| 11 | He recalled Blaney 's pallid and innocuous watercolours of the better-known beauty spots of Norfolk : Blakeney , St Peter Mancroft and the cathedral at Norwich , which he produced for the local shops . |
| 12 | Although there was no other region which he dominated for the king , he did have other land which allowed him to exercise lordship on a more modest scale . |
| 13 | Little is known of Francis Wright 's early years , but in 1830 , on the retirement of his father , he became the senior partner in Butterley , which he dominated for the next forty-three years . |
| 14 | Although there was no other region which he dominated for the king , he did have other land which allowed him to exercise lordship on a more modest scale . |
| 15 | A well known right-wing extremist , Gottfried Küssel , was arrested on Jan. 7 after the broadcast of a television interview in the United States in which he called for the restoration of the Nazi Party to power and the creation of a Fourth Reich . |
| 16 | In 1938 he was elected president of the International Youth Hostel Federation , an office which he held for the next twelve years . |
| 17 | During World War I he was political agent with the Waziristan Frontier Force , and also held a temporary commission in the RAF as a pilot ( 1918 ) , an experience which evidently instilled an enthusiasm for flying which he retained for the rest of his life . |
| 18 | But when he argued over the great issues of human belief , he still did so in the tone which he reserved for the politics of the pavement and the public baths , the voice pitched somewhere between a sneer and a snarl . |
| 19 | But love was what he felt for the stranger who 'd thrust herself upon him . |
| 20 | Gabriel sold all his farm tools to pay what he owed for the sheep . |
| 21 | When he spoke to her she could scarcely hear what he said for the thudding of her lovesick heart and the chattering of her teeth . |
| 22 | But she had n't been able to hear what he said for the roaring in her ears . |
| 23 | It drew to an end in April 1964 with Mr Mandela 's four-hour speech from the dock , in which he defended the formation of Umkhonto we Sizwe and said he had done what he did for the ideal of a free and democratic society , ‘ an ideal for which I am prepared to die ’ . |
| 24 | And those who worked with him on ecumenical committees knew that this was nothing like so rigid an Anglo-Catholic as sometimes he was portrayed ; and remembered what he did for the Methodists and other non-Anglicans in Durham . |
| 25 | Does my right hon. Friend accept that there is much to be commended in general in his decision to reduce the infantry battalions by only 12 , 13 or 14 per cent. , which is a great deal better than what he did for the Regular Army ? |