Example sentences of "and he [vb past] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | And he sent for the Bishop of Valencia , and took their vows and made them plight themselves each to the other according as the law directs . |
| 2 | I said I 'd be in any time after six that evening and he came for the key precisely on the hour . ’ |
| 3 | Then he arose in fear , and called for light , and it was brought him ; and he looked for the leper and could see nothing ; so he returned into the bed , leaving the light burning . |
| 4 | And he pleaded for the public to write to Premier John Major to protest at the move . |
| 5 | A snow-covered hedge loomed up ahead of him and he made for the shelter of it . |
| 6 | Inevitably , he came under the scrutiny of the bigger clubs and Spurs and Brentford made offers , but he eventually moved rather suddenly in October 1935 to Norwich City , when the Canaries paid their record fee to obtain his services , and he played for the Carrow Road club until the war . |
| 7 | He had known it would not satisfy them , and he waited for the rumbles to grow before he said : ‘ Very well . |
| 8 | He tipped his seat back and zipped his jacket right up and he asked for the music to go on again , and he lay there in the dark with the music on , feeling warm in the middle of the freezing night , and he could feel himself smiling . |
| 9 | His food came — they do n't mess about here and he reached for the salt . |
| 10 | But when he tried to stand a cry of pain escaped him and he reached for the wall of the stables for support . |
| 11 | The crowd opened up and he headed for the gate . |
| 12 | We quickly downed ours and he called for the same again . |
| 13 | Estonian President Lennart Meri said that the suspension contradicted earlier agreements , and he called for the issue to be discussed by the foreign ministers of the Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe ( CSCE ) at their forthcoming meeting in Sweden . |
| 14 | Speaking after a visit to the Soviet Union , he said that the state of the Chernobyl plant was " shocking " , and he called for the closure of the three reactors still operational [ see Chernobyl article in this issue ] . |
| 15 | ‘ Michael ran a cab and he worked for the bookies on the side . |
| 16 | Keller 's Zurich upbringing made him into a skiier and sculler , and he raced for the Grasshopper club . |
| 17 | Creed had requisitioned an open car , and he stood for the entire procession , as a mark of his own personal respect for the deceased . |
| 18 | He was , and he remained for the time being , a figure of comic relief . |