Example sentences of "he [vb past] [adv] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I must admit I kept him tied up for longer than I was advised as I wanted to make sure he was capable of moving about safely as he invariably would want to look out of the door and then go back to his food . |
| 2 | Having failed English Alevel , five years on he made up for this by getting a first for his thesis and a fine arts degree from Portsmouth Polytechnic . |
| 3 | Harry himself scored 53 League goals for Palace and two in the FA Cup ; how many he laid on for other forwards we can only guess at . |
| 4 | He sought desperately for other examples , but the best he could come up with was , ‘ Things . ’ |
| 5 | After three years of more or less benevolent autocracy , Valery Gergiev is happy with the facts about his Kirov company : the fact that for the 1989–90 season , very much against the malingering influence of Leningrad 's cultural bureaucrats and an army of silently disapproving critics , he headed straight for uncut Mussorgsky ( original Boris , Shostakovich- orchestrated Khovanshchina , Sorochinsky Fair , The Marriage , Salammbô ) ; and the fact that the following year , with the situation in newly-renamed St Petersburg worsening day by day , he set about four Prokofiev operas within a matter of months . |
| 6 | He wandered around for fifteen minutes examining the piping , whistling quietly to himself , stopping occasionally to put his ear to a joint , and then pulled a hammer out of his tool-bag and tapped smartly on one particular valve . |
| 7 | He paced about for some time , looking agitated . |
| 8 | Jesus said he came not for such ‘ virtuous ’ people but to give hope to those who were aware of their need of God . |
| 9 | He came on for one match at least . |
| 10 | For all his undoubted talent Grayson may not have been a budding Ian Rush but he turned out for one of the country 's most famous clubs , perhaps not the best but certainly one of the best known — Accrington Stanley . |
| 11 | He served there for many years , ultimately becoming chairman . |
| 12 | Cos he signed up for five , five years did n't he ? |
| 13 | He signed up for three years with an option |
| 14 | He insisted on trying to go it alone and lurched against the bannister where he hung on for dear life . |
| 15 | The new gravestone was already in place , and he worked solidly for several hours in the churchyard , putting the plants carefully into the soft earth of her grave . |
| 16 | He worked contentedly for some time and was deep in the intricacies of a genealogy when the telephone rang . |
| 17 | I used to work with him in my mother 's shop — he worked there for twenty-five years , until he died a few years ago . |
| 18 | Grasmere was paradise to him and he settled here for several years at Dove cottage ( which is open to the public ) . |
| 19 | A great camaraderie and friendship evolved and miracle of miracles , he settled down for some years before a dark-haired , dark-eyed endomorph stole his heart for good . |
| 20 | He singled out for particular attention the concepts of cause and effect , which we use and take for granted in everyday life , which are central to scientific study , and which were also essential to the theological argument from causality . |
| 21 | He singled out for special criticism two specific objectives which had figured so prominently in the application of Keynesian ideas : ( a ) the notion that the proper focus of attention for monetary policy was the attainment of targets for the rate of interest as opposed to targets for the supply of money ; ( b ) that demand management policies could be adjusted in such a way as to achieve a target combination of inflation and unemployment which was sustainable indefinitely . |
| 22 | Asked the highlight of this lifetime on the Indian-Pacific , he thought deeply for several stations , before deciding that it was the night a passenger dropped his dentures down the lavatory . |
| 23 | She lifted a lined face to him , and he reached over for another Kleenex and smoothed the wetness away , so that she was almost without makeup . |
| 24 | And there was a coupon in , he sent off for fifteen pound off . |
| 25 | Sometimes it is through a mysterious inner constraint that he makes his presence felt , as when he guided Paul 's evangelistic direction away from the province of Asia in 16:6,7 and towards the hardships and opposition he realised he would have to face if he went up for that last journey to Jerusalem ( Acts 20:22,23 ) . |
| 26 | But he went out for three days , never for an hour and a quarter . |
| 27 | He went in for some pretty awful names , Robbie decided — first Sybil , now Petula . |
| 28 | Burton describes being ‘ between the two men I most feared ’ but nevertheless , and with all that was hanging on the part , he went back for more . |
| 29 | Charles reappeared , after half an hour 's absence , and threw himself into an armchair , where he lay back for some time with his eyes shut . |
| 30 | He lay there for several hours , sleeping fitfully , having occasional nightmares , trying to galvanise himself into getting up , and failing because of the absolute exhaustion that appeared to have gripped his limbs . |