Example sentences of "he [verb] [verb] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has called for secret police to track down those spreading rumours of early elections , and recently warned golfers ( who include many rich Kenyans ) against anti-government talk on the fairways . |
| 2 | He has prepared for civilian life by going on a butcher 's course . |
| 3 | But such is his love for the game he has adorned for close on a decade that he never gave up hope of a return to the big time . |
| 4 | Yet whatever Benn 's shortcomings , he deserves high praise for the service he has performed for recent political history . |
| 5 | He has worked for pharmaceutical company Pfizer , National Bank of Angola and on collaborative projects for the World Bank and is now representing Banco Espirito Santo in Luanda . |
| 6 | He starts to look for human girls to fuck , |
| 7 | Instead of the sexy bits he 'd opted for poetic descriptions of London at night and the philosophic chapter from his last book about the beauties of a relationship between a young girl and an older man . |
| 8 | he plans to sue for professional negligence . |
| 9 | It appears that he did search for 3-dimensional examples but could find none without divisors of zero . |
| 10 | On his arrival , he had asked for hot water to be brought up to his room at nine sharp the next morning , but the sight of one of the young servant girls struggling up the stairs from the kitchen with the huge kettle of boiling water had made him feel so guilty and ashamed he had not asked again . |
| 11 | The youth 's uncle , slightly pink , also laughing , accepted the turn in the argument : Idi Amin might be black , he said , but he was a Muslim and he had asked for Libyan aid . |
| 12 | Wood died 19 December 1865 at 49 Sussex Gardens , Hyde Park , London , where he had gone for medical advice , and was buried in the churchyard at Hetton . |
| 13 | He sat at the head of the table carefully scrutinising the document in front of him as if it were a religious text which he had to examine for scriptural errors . |
| 14 | A great mimic , he had developed for English society an accent which outclassed the Brits around him . |
| 15 | In the mid-term congressional elections ( November 1918 ) he had appealed for wide popular support for his peace policy , but the voters , mostly influenced by domestic affairs , had given his Republican opponents a majority in both the Senate and the House of Representatives . |
| 16 | Debts had swallowed up most of the money he had got for Carinish Court . |
| 17 | He had worked for various firms doing all sorts of jobs , for he was nothing if not adaptable , and recently , just as he was approaching retirement , the firm he worked for in Deptford had become bankrupt . |
| 18 | An indemnity committee considered that he had spied for political reasons and was thus eligible for release under the government 's indemnity programme . |
| 19 | He did not want to believe that it was so , but he had to know for certain . |
| 20 | Ince is a good player ( even if he does play for Utd . ) . |