Example sentences of "he was [vb pp] [adv prt] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Evans said they should get Jack Nicholson for the role and he was invited in for a try-out . |
| 2 | The Metropolitan Police have said that Courtney offered his services — but he was turned down for any work . |
| 3 | He was turned down for an insurance policy on the grounds that he was too old . |
| 4 | He was bound over for 12 months in the sum of £100 to be of good behaviour . |
| 5 | " He was bound over for two years in Leeds , but that ended last month . " |
| 6 | In the 10th round , he was ruled out for a foul , and lost his world championship . |
| 7 | It had been owned by the Turner family , and my aunt 's builder husband had bought it from them and was turning it into an apartment house when he was called up for service with the Army . |
| 8 | He cant be that bad cos he was called up for England last season if Im correct ? |
| 9 | MIDFIELDER Jamie Redknapp today received some compensation for Liverpool 's early exit from Europe when he was called up for England 's Under-21 international against Turkey at Brisbane Road on November 17 . |
| 10 | The way he was fired up for last season 's FA Cup semi-final against Portsmouth , despite knowing he was to have major heart surgery the next day showed his commitment . |
| 11 | And although Eliot was only one member of a jury which included among others Robert Lowell , W. H. Auden , Conrad Aiken and Katherine Anne Porter , he was singled out for abuse : in fact , he seemed to receive more than Pound himself . |
| 12 | In the first few years at Rangers , he was sent off for striking five different opponents . |
| 13 | In a game against Aberdeen , he was sent off for the 13th time in his career for fouling John McMaster , and the Pittodrie player was taken to hospital with neck injuries . |
| 14 | When Bud moved south to West Bromwich Albion in 1976 , he found himself in a deep trouble after a game against Brighton , when he was sent off for the unpardonable offence of kicking a referee . |
| 15 | Later in the game he was sent off for his part in a vicious brawl . |
| 16 | ‘ He was sent off for thumping me , then I broke his jaw . ’ |
| 17 | He took on a starring role in the Plough Lane Crazy Gang production and gained more notoriety when he was sent off for elbowing a village postman in a pre-season friendly on the Isle of Wight . |
| 18 | But in his next match he was sent off for twice attacking the goalie . |
| 19 | Then he was sent off for charging him . |
| 20 | It came as no surprise when he was sent off for a vicious headbutt to the hapless Hudd . |
| 21 | Rovers Defender , Dave Higgins punched the ball out ; he was sent off for deliberate hand ball as Jim Magilton slammed home United 's second . |
| 22 | THE FA have suspended Middlesbrough full back Jimmy Phillips for three matches after he was sent off for violent conduct in an off-the-ball incident against Southend last Saturday . |
| 23 | He expected to be there for only three or four days , but he was kept in for a fortnight . |
| 24 | In 1918 Sanders thought he had a chance to become Chief Secretary for Ireland , but was soon reduced to considering himself as a possible Speaker ; in 1921 he was passed over for Chief Whip because it did not suit the coalition to have such a partisan in so sensitive a post . |
| 25 | But , although winning a famous victory over ( Sir ) Winston Churchill to become Labour MP for Dundee in November 1922 , he was passed over for the foreign secretaryship of the first Labour government fourteen months later . |
| 26 | Although Clinton 's campaign chairman , Mickey Kantor , was among the transition team , he was passed over for the leadership after negative press reports and reservations from within the Clinton camp concerning his style and his role as a prominent lobbyist . |
| 27 | I recall my own final visit to the farm where he was allowed down for an hour and where the flame was rekindled for that period sufficiently for us to forget his illness and think only that the old Nye had been restored . |
| 28 | He was put up for sale before the start of this season . |
| 29 | He was taken in for a moment , and believed her . |
| 30 | Er , that same prophet Isaiah , in the same chapter , he says surely , our griefs he himself bore , and our sorrows he carried , yet we ourselves esteemed him stricken , smitten of God and afflicted but he was pierced through for our transgressions , he was crushed for inequities , the chastening for our wellbeing fell upon him . |