Example sentences of "for [adj] [noun] he " in BNC.
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| 1 | Is the Minister seriously saying that when he drew up the disposal scheme and the scheme for professional advice he had no consultation with the Secretary of State for Transport ? |
| 2 | When Edward invited Harry to Oxford for Eights Week he informed him of his expectations from Lincoln College . |
| 3 | Livermore said : ‘ For 70 minutes he showed tremendous enthusiasm . |
| 4 | It has been said that if each soil conservationist stopped the movement of one grain of soil for each word he has written on the topic , the problem of soil erosion would disappear . |
| 5 | The adventurers may ask other questions of the Oracle , but the questioner must make a Fel test for each question he asks . |
| 6 | All in all , he had been departmentally punished on twenty-seven occasions , an average of once for each year he had spent in the force . |
| 7 | To encourage rich men to bring out poor settlers like this , a ‘ head right ’ system was used to give land -50 acres a head in the case of Virginia — to the landowner for each immigrant he had brought across the Atlantic . |
| 8 | With his feeling for tall stories he 's a radio natural , though . |
| 9 | A notable exception to this was the adviser responsible for multicultural education who argued that since the school did not seem to have developed an overall policy for multicultural education he could not conduct an appraisal of it . |
| 10 | In August 1920 , almost by chance , he was attached for a year to the small peacetime signal intelligence organization in London , and was then posted to Simla in India , where for eight years he performed cipher-breaking duties with remarkable success . |
| 11 | Her exhausted captain had had to hand over the wheel to Arthur and for eight days he was scarcely relieved . |
| 12 | ULSTER Unionist MP John Taylor today refused to apologise for controversial remarks he made about the murder of Roman Catholics by loyalists . |
| 13 | If the debtor refuses to attend for oral examination he is liable to be committed to prison for contempt of court . |
| 14 | Although the City Council paid the bill for dry cleaning he never forgot the smell or the indignity of walking through the City streets on a summer evening drenched in manure . |
| 15 | For that purpose he had to determine whether they formed part of a highway . |
| 16 | For that purpose he went to Edward Wynn . |
| 17 | If Mr Dunn the debtor refused to be cowed by this threat , Mr Rich the creditor would tell the bailiffs to take the belongings out of the house — and for that service he paid the bailiffs a fixed fee . |
| 18 | Go and have a look , he proba probably for that price he might say oh , we 'll leave the curtains and the carpets . |
| 19 | For that right he must negotiate with the citizens of Hebron . |
| 20 | It was possible that recovery might be organised , and for that reason he would remain where he was at least until morning . |
| 21 | He wanted to settle , once and for all , the question of whether Riddle had made his last journey inside the Wheel and for that reason he was resolved to have it closely examined by an expert . |
| 22 | One day , he thought , we shall probably know each other , and for that reason he turned away from the window , not feeling quite equal to meeting the unashamed curiosity of their glances as they came nearer . |
| 23 | His sleep , he knew at once , must have been unusually deep , for he had no clear idea how long it had lasted nor where for that matter he was . |
| 24 | In the spring of 1648 , when the Second Civil War broke out in accordance with this plan , many of the principal officers of the Parliamentary Army , furious at the King 's conduct in deceiving them and plunging the nation into an unnecessary war , solemnly undertook ‘ to call Charles Stuart , that man of blood , to an account for that blood he had shed , and mischief he had done to his utmost , against the Lord 's cause and people in these poor nations ’ . |
| 25 | In place of the Organisation of American States and the Inter-American Treaty for Reciprocal Assistance he proposed that the Latin American and Caribbean states establish an agency of their own that would ‘ create mechanisms for [ mutual ] consultation and cooperation in the political field ’ and allow them ‘ to join our efforts in the defence of our common interest ’ . |
| 26 | When he was imprisoned in 1768 for sexual sadism he managed to secure an early release by the devious means of getting his wife pregnant while she visited him in jail . |
| 27 | Returning about tea time , he 'd then gone out once more to deliver some computer disks for another project he was running in Heanor . |
| 28 | , calorie and then for another meal he 'll have he 'll have this other stuff with a |
| 29 | For thirty-nine years he had devoted himself to the British public . |
| 30 | Bob Peckham has been juggling for 12 years he regularly entertains shoppers in Oxford city centre . |