Example sentences of "he [verb] for many " in BNC.
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| 1 | He lived for many years at Brockham , Betchworth , Surrey , and died there 10 April 1935 . |
| 2 | An Oxford rugby blue in 1959 and 1960 and a keen sailor , Sir Robin , 54 , is remembered by many Whitehall contemporaries as the shrewd captain of the Mandarins cricket team which he led for many years . |
| 3 | And our Lord in the words that we 've read gives a very solemn answer to that question in the , in those words that we read a few moments ago and his immediate answer to the question you know are there few that be saved , was to say many , this was in the following verse , many shall not be able to be saved , now does that mean that only a few will be saved , that there 's only a few people who are gon na be in heaven that Jesus Christ came and died on the cross for about a handful of people , a small percentage does that what it , is that what it means , well lets look and see what the bible has to say , in Matthew chapter seven in verse thirteen and verse fourteen , this is what Jesus says enter by the narrow gate for the gate is wide and the way is broad that leads to destruction and many of those who enter by it , for the gate is small and the way is narrow that leads to life , but few of those who find it any way in the same book , in , in Matthew in , in , in chapter twenty two and in , in , in verse fourteen , listen again to what it says there Jesus is speaking he says for many a called , but few are chosen |
| 4 | An incident at dinner on Sunday night became part of the Reverend Mr Grant 's conversational furniture , a story he told for many years later . |
| 5 | In an unmarked police car equipped with a speed detection computer , Peter Joslin , Warwickshire 's Chief Constable and head of Britain 's police traffic committee , showed us the type of driving which he blames for many fatal road crashes . |
| 6 | Although he allows for many areas of uncertainty in the study of catharsis , Scheff nevertheless accepts the universality of the need to handle destructive emotions , and proposes that ritual , as a cathartic experience , be reinstated in the West as ‘ a dramatic form for coping with universal distress ’ ( 1979 : 114 ) . |
| 7 | He served for many years as examiner for the London water supply and held strong views on sewage purification . |
| 8 | He served for many years on the boards of the Animal Diseases Research Organisation and the College of Agriculture . |
| 9 | He worked for many years with Darlington firm Paton and Baldwin , rising to the position of chairman of sales before his retirement . |
| 10 | A strain of independent socialist thinking runs through his courses , pamphlets , and articles for Plebs , the NCL journal he edited for many years . |
| 11 | Barnacles were a fit subject for Darwin to work on , as he did for many years , because of their curious metamorphosis ; and also because of the way in which males have regressed to become merely vestigial in some species . |
| 12 | He sat for many hours in front of a mirror , moving his joints , detecting stiffness in a knee , juggling with cakes of soap to see if he could still do it . |
| 13 | 8 , when , for some reason , perhaps some personal misconduct , he was dismissed ; he decamped to York , where he resided for many years . |