Example sentences of "he [verb] for the [adj] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | He made for the central entrance to the choir under the organ and almost collided with Dhani , who giggled . |
| 2 | Outside , the world was waiting for Mr Major 's victory oration and shortly after 1.00 he made for the front door . |
| 3 | While a good case can , in retrospect , he made for the national interest being served by higher prices , there were few at the time who argued against the interpretation of Citrine and Self that there was a long-run obligation to sell as much electricity as possible at as low a price as possible . |
| 4 | Many of the pieces were purchased by Dubosc in Japan where he lived for the latter part of his life and much of his collection is now in the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco . |
| 5 | He plays for the Whitehaven Tennis Club and is involved in their purchase of new tennis courts . |
| 6 | plays on , he plays for the first team normally I think . |
| 7 | RORY Underwood makes his last appearance of the season at Twickenham today when he plays for the Royal Air Force against the Army in the crucial final match of this year 's Inter Service tournament . |
| 8 | ‘ Limpar could play for Arsenal again the way he plays for the national team if only Graham had more faith in him . |
| 9 | Yohan , an old man , was moved to tears as he read a tract , as he realised for the first time how much God loved him . |
| 10 | ‘ So you will not consider me , after all our friendship ? ’ he asked , and Emily moved restlessly ; he realised for the first time that all her movements were studied . |
| 11 | He recalled Blaney 's pallid and innocuous watercolours of the better-known beauty spots of Norfolk : Blakeney , St Peter Mancroft and the cathedral at Norwich , which he produced for the local shops . |
| 12 | But here 's Rozario Gemmell Black Pearce is up in support but he goes for the long ball in and Hill met it first . |
| 13 | ‘ He goes for the older woman ! ’ |
| 14 | He has one rig in our room , another one in dad 's car and a third in the big truck he drives for the frozen meat company . |
| 15 | For three seasons he rode for the Scottish millionaire George Baird ( ‘ Mr Abington ’ ) , training and riding Busybody . |
| 16 | He applied for the first chair and then thought better of it and withdrew the application ; refused to apply for the second despite the supplications of Cambridge friends ; and finally applied for the third , the chair of primacy , the regius chair made vacant by the retirement of Charles Raven . |
| 17 | ‘ Now , you 're sure you feel well enough to make a statement ? ’ he asked for the second or third time . |
| 18 | ‘ It is coming ? ’ he asked for the fifth time since they had broken away from the Baglietto . |
| 19 | As he asked for the latest report , Marshka thought about the policeman and the Englishman . |
| 20 | In letters to both John Major and Ian Lang , the Scottish Secretary , he asked for the full cost to be disclosed and expressed concern over the waste of public money . |
| 21 | Sarazen was so sure that Daniels had been the key to his win that he asked for the old boy to be with him when he was presented with the claret jug , saying it was a ‘ team victory ’ . |
| 22 | ‘ What exactly did he take ? ’ he asked for the fourth time . |
| 23 | Her attacker got a 2 month suspended sentence ; the same as he got for the original theft . |
| 24 | Though he admitted for the first time he was the author of his own downfall , he spent much of his speech attacking the press . |
| 25 | In doing so , however , he admitted for the first time that he had made " every effort " to obtain the release of the hostages . |
| 26 | He sought for the right word . |
| 27 | He sought for the right phrase . |
| 28 | He qualified for the light-middleweight semi-finals by beating Norway 's Ole Klemetsen . |
| 29 | And that 's where engineering you know , knowledge , comes er to bear because an engineer looks for that , he looks for the easy , simplest you know er method of production er which gives him an effective er machining operation throughout the whole job . |
| 30 | When he came back , he tried for the Anglican priesthood and was rejected . ’ |