Example sentences of "he [vb past] [verb] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the face of it , the shooting looked like another bloody event in Irish history , but perhaps it was its timing — on the same day that the government had sat for the first time — that intrigued him , or perhaps it was Joe 's words : that his father and the men like him had died for Ireland were being betrayed . |
| 2 | There were other , smaller tasks which he wished to complete : when he had finished the play , he planned to revise for publication the lectures which he had given on education at the University of Chicago . |
| 3 | He drew up a very elaborate Writer 's Guide to explain what he had in mind to the authors he planned to canvass for Doctor Who . |
| 4 | If Labov 's interpretations were suspect ( and of course they are not ) , this would not arise from the fact that he failed to test for significance . |
| 5 | A police search is under way for a businessman accused of attempting to export a military camera to the Soviet Union after he failed to appear for committal proceedings at Rugby Magistrates Court . |
| 6 | Rather than reject Marxism on the grounds that it had been disproved by history , as Merleau-ponty had done , he sought to account for Stalinism through a dialectical analysis of the specific history of the Soviet Union since the Revolution : theory and practice , he argued , had become separated with the result that the former had become ‘ sclerosed ’ while the latter had become ‘ blind ’ and ‘ unprincipled ’ ( I , 50 ) . |
| 7 | The leader of the opposition National Democratic Party of Georgia ( NDPG ) , Georgi Chanturia , was arrested at Tbilisi airport as he tried to leave for Moscow on Sept. 16 , together with his wife Irina Sarishvili and another NDPG leader Vakhtang Talakhadze ( who was released the following day ) . |
| 8 | The next day he tried to beg for money , but large signs in some villages warned him that anyone caught begging would be sent to prison . |
| 9 | He tried to shout for help , but was too weak to raise even the feeblest of cries . |
| 10 | He tried to run for help straight after the crash but then he saw Jason on the road and collapsed with the shock . |
| 11 | In 1990 he moved to work for Wimpey Minerals in the US as chief financial officer . |
| 12 | The elder brother was shot in the stomach as he knelt pleading for mercy . |
| 13 | Pouring the wine , just as he 'd done for Marianne Novaks . |
| 14 | I 'd make it me business to er yes and course it was to his trade good jobs as he 'd done for customers , had it done so well , they told somebody else and it brought in trade , see what I mean ? |
| 15 | His bedroom was the Sleeping Beauty scene he 'd done for Biba 's children 's department and the kitchen area was full of artificial trees — which his party guests used to piss against . |
| 16 | When I asked Lee what 's going on , he told me this guy had met him at the airport and that he had a letter and had said he 'd caddied for Henry Cotton . |
| 17 | He tried to deny he 'd been to the village at first , but when I told him I 'd watched his every move he said he 'd gone for toothpaste and avoided our constables because he did n't think they 'd allow him to go out . ’ |
| 18 | There 's a photograph of him standing in front of the cabbages that he 'd grown for victory wearing his Home Guard uniform . |
| 19 | Gulls picked at the mudbanks where once he 'd searched for jewellery . |
| 20 | He knew that he 'd fallen for bait like a fool . |
| 21 | Ivan had given it to him , with the wooden doll he 'd made for Valeria . |
| 22 | He 'd waited for Lucy but then , when she had n't come out alone , he 'd stayed well back in the shadows . |
| 23 | Dowd had stayed out of the Retreat all the time he 'd waited for Godolphin ( a wearisome three days ) even though it would have given him some measure of protection against the bitter cold . |
| 24 | Mediterranean , perhaps , if the skin colour that he 'd taken for suntan was natural . |
| 25 | Just three years ago a French doctor , Professor Etienne-Emile Baulieu of the University of Paris , saw the launch of the pill he 'd researched for years . |
| 26 | As she 'd returned everything he 'd given her before he 'd left for Japan this was quite a surprise . |
| 27 | Laura almost groaned out loud as she recalled Ross 's reassuring words when he 'd left for London two days ago . |
| 28 | But by that time , of course , it was well and truly over between us and he 'd left for Australia . ’ |
| 29 | He could remember the distant past and his family and friends , but ask him where he 'd just been , what he 'd had for lunch and which room he 'd just come out of , and he was stumped . |
| 30 | He 'd worked for firearms makers Springfield and Samuel Colt before beginning his own company in 1890 , and knew that identical parts could be made to a standard that meant they were interchangeable . |