Example sentences of "he [vb past] [adv] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | When he came back from Livorno in the late summer of 1913 he made straight for the Café Rotonde , to be greeted rapturously by artists and models on the terrace . |
| 2 | He made straight for the big warhorse , mounted , said something to Will , and started along the street . |
| 3 | Collecting her ticket , she came up behind him again as he checked in for the flight . |
| 4 | Stage shows made Leonard Bernstein a very rich man , but he said he cared little for the money , his great love was for the music . |
| 5 | Friends say he cared deeply for the countryside and worked tirelessly to improve the public rights of way network through his job as footpath officer for the Richmondshire group of the ramblers ' association , which he helped to start . |
| 6 | He argued instead for the establishment of a small number of what he termed ‘ freeports ’ , within which unregulated free enterprise would be encouraged . |
| 7 | He fought again for the count of Aumale in his rebellion at the end of 1220 . |
| 8 | He applied unsuccessfully for the chair of technology at Edinburgh , and in 1862 was appointed keeper of minerals to the Royal Dublin Society , His meteorological output was confined to the translation of Dove 's book but in 1866 he was approached by his intimate friend ( Sir ) Edward Sabine [ q.v. ] , then at the height of his influence as president of the Royal Society and prospective chairman of the new meteorological committee , and was offered the directorship of the Meteorological Office . |
| 9 | Outdoors , he continued to carry the picture while walking bipedally , and he headed directly for the gorilla quarters which were located near the adult-ape house on a hill behind the language lab . |
| 10 | ’ The child was still crying as Alan sat down with him , but he grasped greedily for the milk . |
| 11 | When the Frenchman saw what was happening , he shouted angrily for the senator to stop . |
| 12 | He played mostly for the reserves , he was paid cash , it was said , while drawing the dole . |
| 13 | He played twice for the Republic of Ireland in 88–89 . |
| 14 | If anyone have seen pictures from our game against Poland he came on as a substitute for Fjortoft as lone attacker — and he played brilliantly for the 20 minutes he was on . |
| 15 | At about this time , the BBC offered him a World Service job based in London and , at the age of 30 , he came here for the first time . |
| 16 | He came on for the injured Mumby and headed in a perfect Measham cross to score his first goal for the club . |
| 17 | The 29-year-old Scot , a £225,000 summer capture from Millwall , has struggled to find his form on Wearside but all that changed when he came on for the injured Don Goodman after just 12 minutes of Saturday 's game against Barnsley . |
| 18 | ‘ The DJ took up the same line when he came on for the broadcast quiz interview , ’ she went on . |
| 19 | ‘ He came back for the church 's centenary , ’ Mr Hickman recalled . |
| 20 | When he came in for the night some hours later he was still agitated and fretting . |
| 21 | The problems do n't end there ; Kingsley Black had one of his best games for Northern Ireland in Tirana , when he came in for the injured Michael Hughes . |
| 22 | He turned up for the audition with his art teacher , Rose , who he was dating at the time . |
| 23 | He was also afraid that when he turned up for the next practice , Amber and Jeopardy 's argument would be resolved , and he would no longer be required . |
| 24 | The charter provides evidence of a surprisingly well-worked-out system to ensure castle-guard of the town : in April , May , June , July and August , it was the count 's responsibility , though he paid only for the first two months directly out of his own treasury ; , the inhabitants of the town produced a tax for the following three . |
| 25 | He pressed particularly for the granting of full British right of abode to Hong Kong 's civil servants , a category which , on the broadest interpretation , might embrace 180,000 public-sector employees . |
| 26 | Last week he walked upstairs for the first time in three years and just burst into tears . |
| 27 | Before he stepped up for the most nerve-shattering moment of his career Guennady Grishin had kept his nerve to fire the Russians into a 4-3 advantage . |
| 28 | He worked successively for the BBC World Service and for the news agencies Associated Press and Reuters . |
| 29 | Although a private man and somewhat of a loner , he worked tirelessly for the department both in a teaching and administrative capacity . |
| 30 | With the chairman , David Lindsay , Earl of Crawford and Balcarres [ q.v. ] , he worked tirelessly for the library at a critical period in its history . |