Example sentences of "he [verb] [noun prp] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Management consultancy not only made him rich ( he sold Telesis for $1m and has just forked out $1.25m for a Washington house ) ; it also convinced him that America 's ludicrously wasteful health-care system was undermining the nation 's competitiveness abroad . |
| 2 | Minton , with teasing flattery , referred to his new friend , six years his junior , as his ‘ property consultant ’ , for he asked Goff for advice when he began thinking and talking about moving . |
| 3 | I would class him as one of the promising youngsters ( he is only about 21 and on the verge of the Norway team ) Remember Standli is Wilko 's ‘ most exciting ’ signing since he got Hirst for Sheff Wed . |
| 4 | On May 25 he visited Kiev for talks with his Ukrainian counterpart , Vitold Fokin . |
| 5 | Why should he thank God for anger ? |
| 6 | He criticized Bevin for lack of imagination — surely an inverted compliment given its implication of positive contributions in the past . |
| 7 | In the early 1730s , he left Scotland for London to become the pupil of Hans Hysing , a Swedish portrait painter . |
| 8 | John had conceived the idea of staging The Soldier 's Tale even before he left Johannesburg for Cape Town . |
| 9 | She took over from him when he left Grampian for Strathclyde in 1978 . |
| 10 | Although he said he would remain active in Polish politics , he left Poland for Canada on Dec. 12 . |
| 11 | About 1122 he left England for Paris , at that time the goal of many young Englishmen who aimed to study the arts and theology . |
| 12 | But in 1749 he committed a greater indiscretion when he left Cambridge for London , to live on his wits . |
| 13 | Early in 1568 he left Cambridge for London , where he was reported to be a preacher and schoolmaster , attending the Italian Protestant church , and married to Anne , with one son , Isaac , and two daughters ( one perhaps called Judith ) . |
| 14 | Curran referred later to his ‘ Irish birth without an Irish upbringing ’ , since after three weeks he left Dublin for Aberdeen , his mother 's native home . |
| 15 | Just when it seemed that a try would be too much to hope for after 30 tedious minutes , the crowd were treated to two first-class efforts , from Ledger and Fox , playing his first game at Hilton Park since he left Leigh for Leeds three years ago . |
| 16 | When he left Williams for Ferrari , I remember Frank Williams reminiscing at his annual press luncheon that he had fond memories of Alan Jones and Keke Rosberg , but that it would be some time before he had similar memories of Nigel . |
| 17 | Maybe ever since he left Vera for Imogen — which was disastrous for him . |
| 18 | One of the craft was in a mighty hurry when he set Judas for Jesus at John vi.67 , as happened in 1609 ; and so was his descendant in 1653 when , at Corinthians vi.9 , he pronounced that ‘ the unrighteous shall inherit the kingdom of God ’ , which must have been a great comfort to a considerable number of citizens under the Commonwealth . |