Example sentences of "he [vb past] [adv] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | When he came back from Livorno in the late summer of 1913 he made straight for the Café Rotonde , to be greeted rapturously by artists and models on the terrace . |
| 2 | He made straight for the big warhorse , mounted , said something to Will , and started along the street . |
| 3 | Noguchi tried in vain to construct an earthwork sculpture at a Japanese-American internment camp where he lived voluntarily for a time during World War II . |
| 4 | Stage shows made Leonard Bernstein a very rich man , but he said he cared little for the money , his great love was for the music . |
| 5 | Friends say he cared deeply for the countryside and worked tirelessly to improve the public rights of way network through his job as footpath officer for the Richmondshire group of the ramblers ' association , which he helped to start . |
| 6 | My initial impressions of George was that he was quite harsh to Lennie but inside , I felt that he cared deeply for him . |
| 7 | In the brief second session ( January 1658 ) he argued strongly for transacting with the new ‘ other House ’ as a House of Lords , expounding the virtues of government by a single person and a bicameral Parliament . |
| 8 | He argued instead for the establishment of a small number of what he termed ‘ freeports ’ , within which unregulated free enterprise would be encouraged . |
| 9 | In this he argued powerfully for a revival of social citizenship and the ‘ developmental state ’ . |
| 10 | Furthermore , as Robertson-Glasgow wrote , ‘ one puff of victory sighted on the horizon and he rode straight for it . ’ |
| 11 | He fought again for the count of Aumale in his rebellion at the end of 1220 . |
| 12 | He applied unsuccessfully for the chair of technology at Edinburgh , and in 1862 was appointed keeper of minerals to the Royal Dublin Society , His meteorological output was confined to the translation of Dove 's book but in 1866 he was approached by his intimate friend ( Sir ) Edward Sabine [ q.v. ] , then at the height of his influence as president of the Royal Society and prospective chairman of the new meteorological committee , and was offered the directorship of the Meteorological Office . |
| 13 | When he asked once for a volunteer bugler , a particularly blackguardly fellow stepped forward . |
| 14 | In 1182 , he asked formally for pardon , prostrating himself before Barbarossa . |
| 15 | When the Golden Fish offered this man a reward he asked only for bread , which the creature promptly provided . |
| 16 | He gazed calmly for a few seconds before he lifted his hand in greeting . |
| 17 | He sought desperately for other examples , but the best he could come up with was , ‘ Things . ’ |
| 18 | Grant 's mind was in a whirl as he sought desperately for a way out . |
| 19 | After three years of more or less benevolent autocracy , Valery Gergiev is happy with the facts about his Kirov company : the fact that for the 1989–90 season , very much against the malingering influence of Leningrad 's cultural bureaucrats and an army of silently disapproving critics , he headed straight for uncut Mussorgsky ( original Boris , Shostakovich- orchestrated Khovanshchina , Sorochinsky Fair , The Marriage , Salammbô ) ; and the fact that the following year , with the situation in newly-renamed St Petersburg worsening day by day , he set about four Prokofiev operas within a matter of months . |
| 20 | Outdoors , he continued to carry the picture while walking bipedally , and he headed directly for the gorilla quarters which were located near the adult-ape house on a hill behind the language lab . |
| 21 | ’ The child was still crying as Alan sat down with him , but he grasped greedily for the milk . |
| 22 | Auguste was pontificating in that voice he used solely for discussing cuisine , a mixture of reverence , excitement , practicality and anticipation . |
| 23 | Serious-minded and highly practical , he trained hard for everything he did . |
| 24 | He trained specifically for Just Do it . |
| 25 | When the Frenchman saw what was happening , he shouted angrily for the senator to stop . |
| 26 | He staggered inside for help , but although staff and later ambulancemen fought to save him , he died later . |
| 27 | His knees ached as he knelt there for hours . |
| 28 | He played mostly for the reserves , he was paid cash , it was said , while drawing the dole . |
| 29 | After detailing his career in the Royal Naval Air Service , the RAF and in civil aviation , the report concludes : He played both for Yorkshire and Northampton County Cricket Clubs , and on one or two occasions by his batting achievements saved the Champion County from defeat . |
| 30 | He played twice for the Republic of Ireland in 88–89 . |