Example sentences of "he [verb] [noun prp] for [noun prp] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 In the early 1730s , he left Scotland for London to become the pupil of Hans Hysing , a Swedish portrait painter .
3 John had conceived the idea of staging The Soldier 's Tale even before he left Johannesburg for Cape Town .
4 She took over from him when he left Grampian for Strathclyde in 1978 .
5 Although he said he would remain active in Polish politics , he left Poland for Canada on Dec. 12 .
6 About 1122 he left England for Paris , at that time the goal of many young Englishmen who aimed to study the arts and theology .
7 But in 1749 he committed a greater indiscretion when he left Cambridge for London , to live on his wits .
8 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 ) .
9 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 .
10 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 .
11 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 .
12 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 .
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