Example sentences of "he [verb] [adv] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the last hour his progressively alcoholised brain had reminded him of the consequences of justice ( small ‘ j ’ ) : of bringing a criminal before the courts , ensuring that he was convicted for his sins ( or was it his crimes ? ) , and then getting him locked up for the rest of his life , perhaps , in a prison where he would never again go to the WC without someone observing such an embarrassingly private function , someone smelling him , someone humiliating him . |
| 2 | So I had a er I got him set up for the morning jobs and then I did the afternoon jobs with him . |
| 3 | She could just imagine him closing in for the kill . |
| 4 | Do you think there 's any chance of him coming back for the opening of — ? ’ |
| 5 | When he fell ill in 1857 he was granted £30 to enable him to get away for the winter , and six months ' leave of absence shortly afterwards . |
| 6 | A curt note arrived shortly afterwards from Mauve , telling him to stay away for the next two months . |
| 7 | You go to the most wonderful places , you STAND in Soweto outside Nelson Mandela 's little house and watch him come home for the first time in 25 years . |
| 8 | When he came back from Livorno in the late summer of 1913 he made straight for the Café Rotonde , to be greeted rapturously by artists and models on the terrace . |
| 9 | He made straight for the big warhorse , mounted , said something to Will , and started along the street . |
| 10 | Collecting her ticket , she came up behind him again as he checked in for the flight . |
| 11 | He skips over for the bloody |
| 12 | He has received a card with drawings of gangsters on it and threats of a ‘ warm welcome ’ if he turns up for the second-round tie . |
| 13 | Stage shows made Leonard Bernstein a very rich man , but he said he cared little for the money , his great love was for the music . |
| 14 | Friends say he cared deeply for the countryside and worked tirelessly to improve the public rights of way network through his job as footpath officer for the Richmondshire group of the ramblers ' association , which he helped to start . |
| 15 | GARY ARMSTRONG will take another giant step towards reviving his Scotland career when he lines up for the Barbarians at Leicester on December 28 . |
| 16 | But he lines up for the Welsh All-Blacks today , hoping to take another step towards erasing the memory . |
| 17 | He argued instead for the establishment of a small number of what he termed ‘ freeports ’ , within which unregulated free enterprise would be encouraged . |
| 18 | He fought again for the count of Aumale in his rebellion at the end of 1220 . |
| 19 | He applied unsuccessfully for the chair of technology at Edinburgh , and in 1862 was appointed keeper of minerals to the Royal Dublin Society , His meteorological output was confined to the translation of Dove 's book but in 1866 he was approached by his intimate friend ( Sir ) Edward Sabine [ q.v. ] , then at the height of his influence as president of the Royal Society and prospective chairman of the new meteorological committee , and was offered the directorship of the Meteorological Office . |
| 20 | So neither one has a right to a decision in his or her favour , and the judge must decide the case according to whichever rule he thinks best for the future , all things considered . |
| 21 | Outdoors , he continued to carry the picture while walking bipedally , and he headed directly for the gorilla quarters which were located near the adult-ape house on a hill behind the language lab . |
| 22 | He lives only for the moment , and he is already a changed man . |
| 23 | They usually give him a 20 pence piece and he heads straight for the bar to buy his favourite ready-salted snack . |
| 24 | long time see , see such an impression of dodgy back acting , poor old William Roche who plays Ken Barlow in Coronation Street has been moaning and groaning and wincing and rising in the most frightful and indeed the most convincing of manners , he has even for the match of the |
| 25 | ’ The child was still crying as Alan sat down with him , but he grasped greedily for the milk . |
| 26 | He cares neither for the broad sweep of grand strategy nor for the narrow focus of specific campaigns , so he ignores both government archives and the memoirs of the great and the good . |
| 27 | It is unknown to find any subject of Her Majesty who does not say , when asked , that he cares passionately for the Health Service , and believes that more money should be spent on it . |
| 28 | In fact , ultimately ( as " the most honest theoretical man " , Lessing , perceived ) he cares more for the search after truth than for truth itself . |
| 29 | When the Frenchman saw what was happening , he shouted angrily for the senator to stop . |
| 30 | He played mostly for the reserves , he was paid cash , it was said , while drawing the dole . |