Example sentences of "he [vb past] [pron] [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Careful not to wake the others , he made his way for the third time to the lavatory . |
| 2 | KEITH JARRETT , a teenage centre with Newport , played out of position at full-back when he made his debut for Wales but scored 19 points in the 34–21 defeat of England at Cardiff Arms Park . |
| 3 | He made his debut for Palace on 27 October 1923 when Palace won 1–0 at Bradford City but he really came to the fore when an injury to Bob Greener left a vacancy in the half-back line for the 3rd Replay with Notts County at Villa Park , in Palace 's longest ever Cup-tie in February 1924 . |
| 4 | He made his debut for Gloucestershire in 1981 and has taken more than 400 first-class wickets . |
| 5 | He made his début for Essex in 1930 and during the 1930s was regarded as the most effective amateur bowler in English first-class cricket . |
| 6 | Edgar thanked the Danes for their support and allowed them to live under such laws as they might choose , and it must be significant that Swegen landed in Lincolnshire when he made his bid for the kingship in 1013 , and that in 1066 King Harald of Norway made for York , where he had hopes that the citizens would assist him in his endeavours . |
| 7 | He lowered his eyes for an instant to the parchments that littered the table . |
| 8 | Allan Roberts raised the issue because he realised its importance for lesbian and gay liberation , but he then tried to dismiss it because he also realised that even to articulate the question ran counter to Labour 's ‘ duty to win ’ . |
| 9 | He checked her face for sincerity before going to the other room , returning with a photograph in a fancy tin frame . |
| 10 | He was " worldly minded " ( Hebrews 12:16–17 ) — " he sold his birthright for a single meal " . |
| 11 | No , what he was saying was see he sold his house for two hundred and thirty thousand I think he said . |
| 12 | Adrian Gozzard , ex-Plessey , spoke for many executives responsible for recruitment in Britain 's largest companies when he argued his preference for broad-based search firms , rather than those specialising by functional discipline . |
| 13 | It turned out that he shared my liking for the more conventional kind of organ . |
| 14 | Davies said he ditched his girlfriend for Fiona and they went on holiday together to Tenerife where Paul took pictures of her topless . |
| 15 | Lance Buckmaster 's international colossus before he became your Minister for External Security . |
| 16 | He asked their Lordships for the forthcoming Proof before the Sheriff to be heard away from Orkney in mainland Scotland . |
| 17 | He asked his Chairman for a private chat they retired to the gents and Gould who had no contract said he was finished . |
| 18 | He asked his players for their loyalty to him , in return for which he would do his best to improve their conditions . |
| 19 | When Karl was five or six , bored with the village school , he asked his mother for French lessons , and continued with them after they went back to Hamburg . |
| 20 | Then , just before Christmas , he asked my father for my hand in marriage … |
| 21 | And he he got he got my hand for five seconds and then I I got I got his hand for ten something like that . |
| 22 | He played against the touring Western Samoa and Italy sides that same season and it was not until 1989 that he got his chance for a full tenure for the Five Nations games . |
| 23 | He had been at Cambridge , where he got his Blue for rowing . |
| 24 | And Goethe — although he retained his admiration for the Greeks , and not least for the three tragedians , right up to his death in 1832 — mostly looked in other directions for his inspiration after the unfinished drama Pandora of 1810 . |
| 25 | Like other intellectuals of his time , such as Isaac Newton , he retained his enthusiasm for investigating curious phenomena . |
| 26 | ‘ He swopped my mother for a younger woman when he was in his late sixties . |
| 27 | He played in 20 Test matches and his post-war service to Yorkshire included three years as Club president , a position he vacated sadly when he found his calls for moderation went unheeded at the height of the Boycott controversy . |
| 28 | ‘ So I see , ’ I said nervously , watching as he smacked his lips for fire to stream from his mouth , the top of his head to fly upwards on a jet of steam or his eyes to turn into Catherine wheels . |
| 29 | Sidonius depicts the scheme as madness ; nevertheless he maintained his friendship for Arvandus , and he may even have given up his office of prefect of the City of Rome in order not to be involved in sentencing his friend . |
| 30 | He wrung my hand for about five minutes and told me how much pleasure the meeting had given him , though God knows where he had extracted the pleasure from , and expressed the most fervent hope that we would become the firmest friends in the nearest possible future . |