Example sentences of "he [vb past] [verb] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You 've got to be kidding ! ’ yelped Margaret Lenham , as much astonished as afraid at the sight of what he planned to use for the operation : a knitting needle . |
| 2 | ALAIN Prost captured his sixth consecutive pole position of the Formula One season as he led qualifying for the Monaco Grand Prix today . |
| 3 | He failed to allow for the fact that Lucasta Redburn could not bear to throw away anything that might one day come in useful . |
| 4 | yeah , he got charged for the commander |
| 5 | He got paid for the work that erm |
| 6 | He tried to relax for the first time . |
| 7 | He found underpricing for the first third of his data period , and overpricing for the remainder . |
| 8 | He found working for the Maharajah so enjoyable that he refused to accept one penny in payment for his 18 years ' service , although the Maharajah supplied all his material needs . |
| 9 | William Joyce did the same , without such assistance , and entered his name for Battersea Polytechnic , where he proposed to study for the intermediate examination of the London University BSc degree . |
| 10 | ‘ That he 'd arranged for the bank to cash cheques on his and my signature until all this is settled . ’ |
| 11 | He reached for one of the sticks he 'd collected for the pheasant trap . |
| 12 | The act he 'd devised for the Easter Fete was a black mass . |
| 13 | He 'd trusted for the last time . |
| 14 | So I called back again and the number was engaged , so I called back again and got through and he 'd left for the day |
| 15 | Both highly desirable , the one on the left especially ; both looked as if they would n't get on their backs for anything less than Edouard de Chavigny himself ; both had the kind of accent that made his toes curl , and made him wish he 'd opted for the more costly tailor . |
| 16 | Mike Towers , with a background of newspaper journalism — he 'd worked for the Evening World in Bristol — assumed control of " Here Today " and he went for a harder , more newsy approach . |
| 17 | There , he 'd worked for the Corps ' news service , been wounded , gone home to study journalism at college and ended up with the Associated Press . |
| 18 | ‘ Although I 'm almost certain Mills was murdered because he 'd worked for the KGB . ’ |
| 19 | When I asked him to itemize the price , so I could add it up for myself , the total came to over £100 less than he 'd quoted for the bundle . |
| 20 | All he 'd got for the mite was a tatty old kite |
| 21 | Soon after the Second World War , in which he worked with ENSA ( or ‘ Every-Night-Something-Awful ’ , as he called it ) , he came to work for the music publishing firm of R. Smith and Co Ltd and served as editor of British Bandsman ( the brass band world 's leading newspaper since 1887 ) for 15 years . |
| 22 | Shaking his head sadly at the stark scene he turned to head for the Zoo 's exit . |
| 23 | He happened to work for the same paper which stitched Botham up some eight years ago . |
| 24 | He began to reach for the handle with a gloved hand and then pulled nervously back , remembering what had happened to Frye . |
| 25 | Leaning back , he began to reach for the packet of cigars , then made a wry face and changed his mind . |
| 26 | As they passed the alimentari ( shut , as it might be forever ) and then plunged off the road into the shadows of the bramble-lined single track , Haverford quoted , as he had been waiting to do ever since they left Heathrow : ‘ ‘ In the middle of the journey of our life , I found myself lost in a dark wood , ’ ’ he began to translate for the benefit of the children , but they were all , including the baby , asleep now and Molly thought that for her father to pretend to be in the middle of his life was a bit of a cheek anyway . |
| 27 | He had written for the ‘ Manchester Guardian ’ on the subject during the seasons of 1933/4/5 , then in 1937 he began writing for the ‘ Glasgow Herald ’ — not reporting on county cricket as he had for the ‘ Guardian ’ but instead turning his impeccable knowledge of the game to the study of the nature of the game itself . |
| 28 | He began digging for the pipe , which was expected to be about half a metre down . |
| 29 | In 1828 he began to write for the fledgling Record newspaper and subsequently became its chief proprietor and the dominant influence on editorial policy for half a century . |
| 30 | As the sopranos of the WI soared off into the upper atmosphere he began to feel for the first time that this Christmas had meaning . |