Example sentences of "he was [verb] [to-vb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | What if she had thought he was beginning to care for her ? |
| 2 | On several occasions , he was invited to play for the Roman Catholic Holy Cross football team in charity matches to raise funds for it . |
| 3 | When in July , for example , he was asked to testify for the London Library against a rating valuation , he was visibly nervous before giving his testimony ( it seems , according to Rupert Hart-Davis , that he had been awake the whole night before ) . |
| 4 | Instead , he was asked to train for the 400m , and won in world record time . |
| 5 | Though he 'd come along , white carnation , wedding-ring and all , I reckon , if he was asked to play for the Firsts . |
| 6 | He was asked to stand for parliament , but declined , having no particular relish for party-politics ; he was too large-hearted a man for that . |
| 7 | It started when Count Humbert of Maurienne gave his daughter into Henry 's custody and asked him what provision he was intending to make for her future husband . |
| 8 | He was sent to jail for three years ) |
| 9 | One more story about O : he told me ( it was as if he was trying to explain the oddity of his lovemaking to me , as if he was trying to account for or apologise for the way he 'd treated me , or perhaps to reassure me concerning the effect he 'd had on me , I do n't know ) , in the morning he told me that there was one man , this had been just a couple of years previously , there was one man who had summoned him to his bedside to be counted amongst a farewell gathering of lovers , dear friends and great passions . |
| 10 | I think he was trying to call for help . |
| 11 | He was trying to qualify for the Spring Satellite , but he returned in time to defeat Simon Bramwell ( Herts ) , in the final round . |
| 12 | Furthermore , he was elected to serve for 48 months , of which barely 5 have elapsed . |
| 13 | However , at Rigby 's instance , the Royal Navy afforded Majid the necessary support and the insurrection failed , Barghash being sent to Bombay where he was compelled to remain for eighteen months . |
| 14 | By the time his original classification as a ‘ contested registration ’ was rescinded there were no vacancies for the hard-hitter from Keighley , and he was compelled to settle for league cricket and Minor Counties appearances for Cumberland . |
| 15 | Another day he was sent from Washington to a Chinese vegetable stand on the Lower West Side in Manhattan , where he was told to ask for a person with the code name ‘ Mooey ’ ; Mooey went behind the counter , rolled up his trouser-leg and pulled out a wad of hundred-dollar bills , which Owen thought ‘ I had better count anyways . ’ |
| 16 | He was told to strip for a medical examination but he was n't up to scratch and failed , and so never got his chance . |
| 17 | At the end of 1942 , out of work , he was advised to apply for the Pioneer Corps and was accepted . |
| 18 | But he was ordered to return for more question-ing in November as a ‘ lengthy investigation ’ was launched . |
| 19 | BRITISH snooker champion John Parrott yesterday revealed what he was doing to prepare for his title defence next week washing the dishes . |
| 20 | Leeds coach Doug Laughton last night denied he was set to swoop for Widnes 's former Welsh union star Jonathan Davies . |
| 21 | LEEDS rugby league coach Doug Laughton last night denied he was set to swoop for Widnes 's former Welsh union star Jonathan Davies . |
| 22 | But she had been rash enough to believe he was starting to care for her . |
| 23 | He telephoned Jean , who already knew the news and had cancelled several of his local appointments , including the one with Chief Inspector Salter who had been ‘ so anxious to see him ’ and who was probably even more anxious now , and told her he was preparing to leave for London and his meeting . |
| 24 | A man who was in the car park at the time said he was forced to dive for cover . |
| 25 | Sadly , the forty-five-year-old 's rotund physique proved too much and he was forced to retire for an early bath . |
| 26 | The jury awarded him the libel raspberry — a halfpenny — so he was forced to pay for the whole action . |
| 27 | His activities in the Peloponnese may have been provocatively anti-Spartan ( p. 25 ) ; in any event , he was forced to look for a permanent home in the king 's Asia . |
| 28 | It was as a bowler that he was chosen to play for England , making his début in 1924 , and thereafter winning 39 caps . |
| 29 | He was laughed to scorn for returning with tales of people who actually ate the nests of birds , which they boiled over fires of burning black stones — seven centuries before the same black stones were discovered and harnessed in Europe to fuel the Industrial Revolution . |
| 30 | Each young gentleman was provided with his own chamber-pot , which he was expected to empty for himself on the common midden , situated behind the houses . |