Example sentences of "he [adv] [vb past] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And , famously this time , he successfully campaigned for Mr Fallon who won the Darlington seat with a 3,437 majority . |
| 2 | ‘ Last year he mostly caddied for Lars Persson , who finished around twenty-fifth in the Order of Merit and so he probably made less than five thousand pounds . |
| 3 | He especially thanked for years of hard work , and this was received with strong acclamation . |
| 4 | Mr Sowerberry , the undertaker in Charles Dickens 's Oliver Twist , was in the middle of the funeral hierarchy , but towards the bottom end as he only catered for parish funerals — that is to say those from the workhouse or those receiving outdoor relief . |
| 5 | As he reached his door he found his thoughts turning once more to the urgent problem of putting food in his belly , and a part of his mind registered with pleasure that these thoughts were at last supplanting the ones in which he alternately pined for Aset and visited unholy vengeance upon her . |
| 6 | You leave a message like , and it 's like , erm , I 'll pop over and see you , and I was like , I mean , he just paused for breath , and I went , well , what time , and he went , well hang on , the message has n't finished yet . |
| 7 | When he finally paused for breath , I said , ‘ Hold on a moment ’ and explained that , although obviously nobody wants to spend more than they have to on anything , in my case it was a matter of principle , because I wanted my husband 's funeral to be a personal affair in which he would be ministered to by his loved-ones , not strangers . |
| 8 | In September of 1155 he finally departed for Germany , to embark upon a further programme of reorganisation in his homeland . |
| 9 | He had things to learn before he finally pushed for home . |
| 10 | He gave her his best smile , a greeting he normally reserved for waiters . |
| 11 | There is a curious sense in which the no-holds-barred style that Nizan adopted in this series of five articles , the last he ever wrote for Ce Soir , marked a return to the sectarian , aggressive , uncompromising Nizan of 1932 . |
| 12 | In spite of his bitter criticism of his father , he still asked for help from him . |
| 13 | In vacations he still went for interviews with his psychiatrist , who did not feel that he had quite got ‘ to the bottom of things ’ . |
| 14 | There was none of the carelessness with which he usually waited for Twomey to bring him his glass . |
| 15 | Instead of going to the Club as he usually did for lunch , Owen went to Zeinab 's apartment . |
| 16 | After Oliver Cromwell became lord protector , Bishop gradually turned over his duties to John Thurloe [ q.v. ] and retired to Bristol , where he unsuccessfully stood for Parliament in 1654 . |
| 17 | Pressing for the abolition of the pernicious fee system had been an obvious target but he also pressed for liquor taps to be banned and the sale of drink to inmates to be closely regulated ; for the gaolers to be resident at the gaol instead of offering only minimal supervision if they lived away from it ; for the provision of chaplains and doctors and the detailing and publishing of prison rules and regulations . |
| 18 | In addition to Wessels , he also accounted for Kirsten who diverted a sharp off-cutter into his stumps in the day 's 15th over , the fourth wicket of the morning and the decisive one . |
| 19 | During that time he also rode for Ferguson when he rode Lacken Beau for the Ballymena trainer at Downpatrick . |
| 20 | He also looked for signs of abnormal radioactivity in the vicinity while seeking for the source of the heat and gas but nothing significant turned up . |
| 21 | Alan 's by-line was to be seen as a foreign correspondent for a number of national papers including the Daily Express , Daily Sketch , Sunday Times and he also wrote for Mail on Sunday . |
| 22 | He also asked for $25m for Hungary . |
| 23 | * He also asked for swabs for drying balls and replacement brushes be made at certain tees and that a brushwood boot scraper be provided ‘ as the present iron one was ‘ impossible ’ ’ . |
| 24 | Signed by Ken Knighton for £10,000 from Newcastle Blue Star , he also played for Darlington and then commuted each Sunday between Wearside and VVC Kokciede in Belgium . |
| 25 | In 1388–95 he also worked for Wykeham at Bishop 's Waltham . |
| 26 | From about 1380 Master Hugh was in charge of the timber-work for New College , Oxford , and from 1387 he also worked for Bishop William of Wykeham [ q.v. ] at Highclere , Hampshire . |
| 27 | He also worked for Vanity Fair . |
| 28 | He also called for prayers for both victims and perpetrators of violence . |
| 29 | He also called for sanctions against South Africa to be maintained . |
| 30 | He also called for measures to favour lower-paid employees in respect of income tax , and for measures to help small businesses . |