Example sentences of "he [adv] [vb past] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | As he kissed her again he slowly felt for the gusset of her panties , pulled them to one side and entered her expertly . |
| 2 | His coaching duties with the Scotland sevens squad concluded for the day , he duly appeared for the second half of the semi-final against the relatively fresh-faced youths of White Hart Marauders — inspired by England internationalists , Dewi Morris and Jeremy Guscott , and B caps , Damian Hopley and Justyn Cassell . |
| 3 | The first of these , which formed part of Gloucester 's original endowment , was the manor of Kingston Lacy in Dorset , which he apparently held for the rest of the reign . |
| 4 | The first of these , which formed part of Gloucester 's original endowment , was the manor of Kingston Lacy in Dorset , which he apparently held for the rest of the reign . |
| 5 | As it turned out , he only came for the funeral . ’ |
| 6 | He only entered for the Foreign Office and the block plan , with a total of ten drawings , and was awarded one of the fifth prizes for his Foreign Office design . |
| 7 | He just came for the money every day . |
| 8 | Electrician , you know he still worked for the the electricity board . |
| 9 | ‘ He always changed for the evening meal regardless of whether anyone was coming or not ’ . |
| 10 | He screamed back at her some choice words that he usually saved for the rent collector . |
| 11 | He wisely asked for the downward transition after a circuit and the mare came down to trot , threw her head up briefly and then rounded again . |
| 12 | He also arranged for the Tanager Gallery , a co-op that enlivened the 10th Street scene for many years , to move there . |
| 13 | He also made for the grotto at Stourhead in Wiltshire the figure of a river god which , painted white to resemble marble , glows splendidly in the cavernous gloom . |
| 14 | He also called for the passage of measures to outlaw " religious hypocrisy " . |
| 15 | He also called for the UN to arrange a vote on self-determination for Punjab . |
| 16 | He also called for the removal of limits on the assets of industrial houses covered by the Monopolies and Restrictive Trade Practices ( MRTP ) . |
| 17 | He also called for the abolition of the CAC . |
| 18 | Like the young men in Paris , he also designed for the opera and ballet , and then went on to design the famous stained glass windows of the new Coventry Cathedral . |
| 19 | He also answered for the general practitioner , dental and pharmaceutical services . |
| 20 | He was so tall and masculine that he probably went for the dainty feminine types . |
| 21 | Between 1511 and 1522 he probably worked for the Duke of Buckingham on Thornbury Castle , Gloucestershire . |
| 22 | Ironically , it was the Government which he partly blamed for the affair that gave him the chance to return to work after retirement . |
| 23 | Downing Street yesterday firmly rejected bitter criticism by President Clinton of ‘ unfair ’ subsidies towards the European Airbus which he partly blamed for the threatened loss of 28,000 Boeing jobs . |
| 24 | He automatically reached for the cheque-book . |
| 25 | He now worked for the Water Board as a clerical officer . |
| 26 | A graduate in urban and regional planning , he originally worked for the Urban Wildlife Trust in Birmingham and also spent a period as an environmental planning consultant . |
| 27 | On March 30th he implicitly called for the economy minister 's resignation , and the next day he got it . |
| 28 | He even posed for the newspaper photographers , insisting only that they refrain from taking behind-the-bars type pictures . |
| 29 | He then waited for the wasps to leave on bee-hunting expeditions , and while they were away he moved the cones a yard or so away from the entrances ( Figure 4.4 ) . |
| 30 | He then waited for the next major religious festival — Whitsuntide — and made the translation into a great occasion , although with troops at hand in case of trouble . |