Example sentences of "he [adv] [vb past] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a spell in private practice , Vial was made equerry to Louis XVI and chef de manège of the Lyons riding academy , a post he apparently held for some years , but could not retain . |
| 2 | He just asked for more erm , one thing that is disturbing , what he does very causally mention is what is going on all the time |
| 3 | Every night that Madame stepped up onto the stage in her dress , Boy would be watching her ; he always stayed for that . |
| 4 | He gives up a day job to write down the stories — of the Secret Mountain , the Sound that could be Seen , the Slow Children and the Magic Duvet — that he once told for free to a rabble of offspring and other kin and friends . |
| 5 | Just as he once battled for supreme fitness , he has poured his energy into learning to speak again . |
| 6 | The next year he also served for six weeks in Kuwait , with the 2nd Battalion of the Parachute Regiment , to counter an Iraqi threat . |
| 7 | He also asked for 21 other offences to be taken into consideration . |
| 8 | He also worked for several years with the Lutheran World Federation . |
| 9 | He also called for existing club members to provide greater public access to their clubs . |
| 10 | He also called for further tax changes which would encourage research and development activity , and a regional aid system with incentives for training . |
| 11 | He also called for urgent medical treatment and compensation for local residents , official estimates on the following day stating that the health of up to 120,000 people could have been endangered , principally by a beryllium oxide gas cloud which had settled over Ust Kamenogorsk for five hours after the accident ( beryllium contamination could cause disfunction of the lungs , liver , kidneys and central nervous system ) . |
| 12 | He also called for those hit hardest by VAT rises to be compensated , urged that the wealthy be called on to pay more and warned Chancellor Norman Lamont against aiming at a general tax level of 20p , saying it was ‘ not manageable ’ . |
| 13 | He also called for those hit hardest by VAT rises to be compensated , urged the wealthy be called on to pay more and warned Chancellor Norman Lamont against aiming at a general tax level of 20p , saying it was ‘ not manageable ’ . |
| 14 | Surviving reports show that he also acted for other litigants during the same period , both in the Common Bench and in eyres . |
| 15 | He told the reporter that he later lived for two years on a barge near Shrewsbury , during which time he suffered a stroke but refused to go to hospital . |
| 16 | He had a number of set speeches which he frequently rehearsed for such occasions . |
| 17 | He then served for three years as Secretary General of the Islamic Conference Organization . |
| 18 | In Cairo on Oct. 24 , he then went for one day to Damascus , meeting President Assad of Syria , and returned unexpectedly to Egypt on Oct. 26 . |
| 19 | He then worked for eighteen months in the Southampton naval works before returning to Glasgow late in 1891 as an assistant lecturer in naval architecture and marine engineering at the university , and it was soon after this that his intensive study of the design of bird-like gliders began . |
| 20 | He then worked for many years as a country doctor , during which time his son Robert nearly died from smallpox inoculation performed by a ‘ surgeon of his acquaintance ’ . |
| 21 | He then worked for three years for Alexander Cowan & Co. at Musselburgh Paper Mills . |
| 22 | And he did train , he actually trained for five years , and instead of holiday he got , and something he 'd like to have done is learnt to compete in the Whitbread Round the World . |
| 23 | And what if he never discovered for certain who had sent that letter ? |
| 24 | Certainly , he never looked for one moment as though there were a dose of castor oil beneath his nose . |
| 25 | His majorities were not always as big as he would have liked , notably in 1923 , his first election as Prime Minister , when he rashly asked for 10,000 and got 6000 ; but he was never in remote danger of losing the seat . |
| 26 | He occasionally went for lonely walks on the moors , and regularly visited his wife 's grave . |