Example sentences of "he [vb past] for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It traces Alfie 's career on the field with Downpatrick and Ireland and his rise to the top of officialdom 's tree , highlighting the impact he made for essential change in promoting the game and in the need for better communication . |
| 2 | It traces Alfie 's career on the field with Downpatrick and Ireland and his rise to the top of officialdom 's tree , highlighting the impact he made for essential change in promoting the game and in the need for better communication . |
| 3 | It features new stone sculptures intended to be shown outdoors as well as in the gallery , a new red ‘ Void ’ from that continuing series of wall sculptures , one of which was shown in Kapoor 's pavilion at the Venice Biennale in 1990 , and material related to the stage designs which he made for recent performances by dancer Laurie Booth at the Queen Elizabeth Hall . |
| 4 | The congregation usually watched him with a perverse relish which he mistook for devout attention , but this Sunday afternoon there was palpably an added curiosity to see how well he managed to live down the shaming comedy he had enacted on horseback a few days before . |
| 5 | When he applied for judicial review he did not know whether his tariff exceeded 20 years , but on 10 April 1990 his solicitors were informed by the Home Office that it did not . |
| 6 | In 1959 , three years after he applied for German papers under his own name at the German embassy , he fled to Paraguay as the Frankfurt authorities issued the first warrant for his arrest . |
| 7 | ‘ Following the elections there has been less high profile security presence in the area , ’ he said , adding that some time ago he asked for extra security measures for the town . |
| 8 | He asked for streamlined procedures to sift out frivolous applications and allow individual board members greater discretion to reduce the number of full hearings . |
| 9 | Sir Rhodes urged Mr Patten to reduce poll tax levels in London by imposing a cap of £300 per adult , and he asked for special help for those people living in low rateable value homes built between 1860 and 1930 . |
| 10 | In his note he asked for medical help — some vitamins , eye-drops , ‘ as I ca n't go out ’ — and for some money . |
| 11 | In an attempt to recover prestige and to circumvent the Chancellor he tried for personal contact with King William , hoping desperately that , as he said , ‘ between sovereigns things can be arranged ’ . |
| 12 | IN THE JUDEO-CHRISTIAN tradition , human beings , closest to God , believed that they had dominion over all His other creatures , which He created for human benefit . |
| 13 | And there , on the top of his open bag , staring straight at him , was the white notepad he used for issuing prescriptions . |
| 14 | In front of the blue-and-white 707 , he stopped for final farewells . |
| 15 | His written work is average , he entered for 0-level English this year and obtained a C grade . |
| 16 | And he played for old Mrs Lark . |
| 17 | Deeply troubled by this experience , he sailed for Latin America in the late summer of 1886 in an attempt to save the firm . |
| 18 | He appealed for international support for Ukraine 's claim to an equivalent proportion of Soviet assets abroad , and criticized the inter-republican agreement of Dec. 5 on the division of debt , which Ukraine had refused to sign [ see p. 38656 ] . |
| 19 | He had given a speech earlier in the year on the subject of ‘ Constitution Reform in Trinidad and Tobago ’ , at the end of which he appealed for mass action and now he was testing the dedication and organisational abilities of his P.E.G . |
| 20 | He added for good measure : ‘ During the time she is in the shop her domestic duties are being neglected ’ . |
| 21 | In any case , he warned me , it 's what a rich man calls an asset and , he added for good measure , never invest in something new , especially when there 's a war on . |
| 22 | His thinking also took account of limited human rationality on the question of responsibility for offences ; unlike Beccaria he allowed for mitigating circumstances such as duress , infancy and insanity to reduce or even remove an individual 's liability to punishment . |
| 23 | Among the thousands of press cuttings he collected for possible inclusion in the dossier is the following story , clipped from L'Opinion nationale of June 20th , 1863 : |
| 24 | Mr Steinkühler 's dealings enrage the two groups he served for different reasons . |
| 25 | He campaigned for economic growth through direct government help to industry , financial discipline , individual rights and environmental protection . |
| 26 | He campaigned for free education , and for the introduction into Britain of the metric system . |
| 27 | ‘ He worked for British Intelligence , but he was a double agent . |
| 28 | He called for international reconstruction of Vietnam 's economy . |
| 29 | He called for international reconstruction of Vietnam 's economy . |
| 30 | He called for concerted action by governors head teachers and teachers to erm make sure that er young people appreciate the importance of having a set of values recognize the values held by others from whom they can learn . |