Example sentences of "[Wh det] he [verb] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had given a speech earlier in the year on the subject of ‘ Constitution Reform in Trinidad and Tobago ’ , at the end of which he appealed for mass action and now he was testing the dedication and organisational abilities of his P.E.G . |
| 2 | He managed this with the help of a flannel , some scented soap from England which he kept for special occasions and a kettleful of hot water that took five minutes to boil on the single electric ring that served as a cooker and , in winter , as a heater . |
| 3 | It features new stone sculptures intended to be shown outdoors as well as in the gallery , a new red ‘ Void ’ from that continuing series of wall sculptures , one of which was shown in Kapoor 's pavilion at the Venice Biennale in 1990 , and material related to the stage designs which he made for recent performances by dancer Laurie Booth at the Queen Elizabeth Hall . |
| 4 | The congregation usually watched him with a perverse relish which he mistook for devout attention , but this Sunday afternoon there was palpably an added curiosity to see how well he managed to live down the shaming comedy he had enacted on horseback a few days before . |
| 5 | IN THE JUDEO-CHRISTIAN tradition , human beings , closest to God , believed that they had dominion over all His other creatures , which He created for human benefit . |
| 6 | Following the imposition of sanctions and the freeze on official exchanges immediately following the Tiananmen Square massacre [ see pp. 36722 ; 36815 ] , Qian Qichen held " frank discussions " with US Secretary of State James Baker at a UN meeting in New York on Sept. 28 , in which he called for practical measures on the part of the USA to improve the situation . |
| 7 | As part of the process of opening up to the West , Kim used the occasion to give an interview to the Washington Times in which he called for improved relations with the USA and said that he wished to see a US embassy established in the capital , Pyongyang , " as quickly as possible " . |
| 8 | This is part of what makes his eventual faith in God ( which he reaches for other reasons ) a radical reliance on God alone . |
| 9 | He sat gazing into space , his unblinking stare which had compelled Harold Macmillan to shift him in Cabinet so as to avoid what he took for continual rebuke , unbroken by the throng that pressed about him . |
| 10 | Asked what he hoped for Soviet art and culture after long years of political oppression , he said there would be an enormous spiritual benefit , not least because of easier travel and contacts with the rest of the world . |