Example sentences of "he was [adv] [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was conditionally discharged for two years |
| 2 | He was conditionally discharged for twelve months and had to pay £15 compensation . |
| 3 | He was conditionally discharged for 12 months . |
| 4 | He was finally accepted for treatment about eighteen months after his accident . |
| 5 | By now , having experienced the sensation of flying , he felt that his future was in flying the aircraft rather than servicing them on the ground ; in April 1934 he was finally accepted for pilot training . |
| 6 | He had eighteen previous convictions when he was finally arrested for murder , including assault and bodily harm , and three charges pending . |
| 7 | Central Office had great difficulty finding seats for the candidates of the National Democratic Party ( NDP ) , as the BWL had become by 1918 , and it took some time even to find a place for Victor Fisher himself before he was finally installed for Stourbridge . |
| 8 | I always thought he was largely to blame for the relegation in 1982 . |
| 9 | Eventually the law caught up with him and he was heavily fined for caging protected species . |
| 10 | At the same time , John was made Earl of Gloucester , and awarded the lands of Mortain in Normandy — to which he was instantly banished for a term of three years , Richard 's clearest vote of no confidence in his brother . |
| 11 | He was duly reprimanded for his arrogance , providing him years later with another memory that would help make him a sympathetic captain . |
| 12 | He was duly cited for contempt , received a thirty-day sentence to jail and a fine , which were quashed two years later on appeal . |
| 13 | According to Stanley Turner , curator of the Michael Peto archive at Dundee University , ‘ he was continuously searching for the vision of a monumental human form to epitomise the universality of whatever scene , situation or event he was out to capture … always intent on raising his workday subjects from fleeting , mundane , accidental movement into symbolic representatives of their class or profession . ’ |
| 14 | In April 1981 he was again arrested for articles he had written in association with democracy activist Xu Wenli , tried in May 1982 and sent to prison . |
| 15 | In April 1770 he was again arrested for debt , and this time wrote to an unknown friend : ‘ After being six times arrested : nine times in a spunging house ; and three times in the Fleet-prison , I am at least happily arrived at the King 's Bench [ Prison ] ’ . |
| 16 | He was best known for rebuilding the Milagres Chapel in Machico . |
| 17 | Outside Italy he was best known for La Maniera italiana ( 1962 ) and I Bamboccianti ( 1983 ) . |
| 18 | Again , a ruthless party would have ditched the leader once the job he was best suited for , left-smashing , was completed . |
| 19 | Initially important for his courageous preservation of papal and episcopal authority against royal depredation , he was best remembered for his generosity to the poor , simplicity of life , devotion to parochial cares and his miracles . |
| 20 | Probably he was already dressed for the part in a brown peat-carrier 's suit : he had been anticipating the trip for at least a month . |
| 21 | He knew full well that the only circumstances in which a regional planning manager would not be expected personally to present his Ten Year Business Plan to the President of the Corporation was if he was already earmarked for promotion and it was desired to give visibility to his successor , or if he was on his way out . |
| 22 | He was already acting for a number of young painters including Kisling , Hayden and Kremegne , and was determined to find a way of fostering Modigliani 's talent . |
| 23 | He was already reaching for his phone , jabbing an extension number . |
| 24 | This suggests that he was already intended for a career in the Church . |
| 25 | Winking broadly in Lindsey 's direction , he was already heading for the door . |
| 26 | This famous agriculturalist , influenced by the Duke of Bedford and dismissive of the Norfolk and Suffolk breeds that later combined to become the Red Poll , brought the small , thrifty Devons to his estates , where he was already known for experimenting with sheep such as the Southdown , the Norfolk Horn and Bakewell 's new Leicester . |
| 27 | When Lamb played five balls of an over defensively and then ran two off the last , it was clear that he was just settling for his hundred , and since Terry immediately succumbed Lamb was criticized for exposing him , rather than trying to keep the strike . |
| 28 | We all imagined he had some secret new money-spinning idea and soon we 'd all be amazed at what he 'd done to the place , and coming here to marvel at the crowds he 'd managed to attract … but I do n't think he was ever looking for a site for some viable business venture ; I think he was just looking for somewhere suited to his burned-out , fed-up , pissed-off mood . |
| 29 | She gasped at this admission , then realised he was just looking for ways to beat himself up . |
| 30 | I wondered if he was trying to hide from the Eladeldi , but he was just nosing for something somebody else had dropped . |