Example sentences of "he [verb] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He made for London , where he resumed his former way of life , a mixture of study and worldly pleasures , but never losing sight of the main objective . |
| 2 | Ice on the north coast of Spitsbergen made it impossible to pass Amsterdam Island , and so he made for Franz Josef Land , discovered only in 1873–4 , and partly mapped . |
| 3 | The 50-minute film he made for Arena suggests why : Last Supper — Frank on Frank looks like a parody of the excesses of Sixties avant-garde film-making . |
| 4 | Thereafter he lived for society and gossip , projecting a ‘ History of his Times ’ , the materials of which were to be his long , delightfully observant letters to his favourite stepdaughter , Elizabeth Ord . |
| 5 | He plays for Rovers now . |
| 6 | well the thing is I mean he plays for England under twenty ones |
| 7 | ‘ Whenever he plays for Arsenal , there always seems to be so much pressure on him . |
| 8 | Nearer home , he is a stalwart of the chess club at his present school , Yarm School junior department , and he plays for Stokesley in the senior division of the chess league . |
| 9 | Before losing out to Northampton who were bullies , I was at that match at Buckingham Road and I thought they were bullies , especially Bobby Barnes , not the wrestler , used to play for West Ham , but he plays for Northampton now , he 's gone now , but they were , they , they were naughty . |
| 10 | The Lithuanian back division , as Liubinskas was a little suspect against Northern Ireland but this was primarily due to the absence of 32-year-old central defender Vlacheslavas Sukristovas who was unable to obtain a visa from Israel where he plays for Maccabi Netanya . |
| 11 | He checked for Lawton and Forster , saw them pass the entrance again . |
| 12 | If the Sabbath was a day of rest from labour , Sunday , Rabbi Moishe sometimes thought — but it was not a thought he voiced for fear of being misunderstood — was a day of rest from the Sabbath . |
| 13 | ‘ I was n't sure that I 'd find you in , ’ he drawled for openers — and suddenly Fabia did n't like his tone . |
| 14 | The following year he registered for study in philosophy and theology at the University of Leyden and , apart from a brief return to Rostock , remained in The Netherlands until he took up a post at the University of Copenhagen in June 1648 . |
| 15 | She thought his Catholicism , the emotion he mistook for faith , was a pity . |
| 16 | Elinor felt privileged to be one of his girlfriends for she was aware how little he cared for women and how he would sometimes wince when sitting next to one . |
| 17 | He cared for Noah , freely and very , very closely . |
| 18 | Pound did not reach Washington , however , until the middle of November 1945 and the first real chance Eliot had to acquaint himself with the situation was on the business trip to the United States which he planned for June and July of 1946 . |
| 19 | However , he got better results in his own TV film , The Ewok Adventure ( aka Caravan of Courage , 1984 ) , which he produced for Lucas , by shooting some action sequences with most of the picture area on the negative blocked off , then — working from a test strip just before the main action — matching the matte painting to the unexposed area and finally compositing action and painting together . |
| 20 | Those that he produced for sale through the Redfern Gallery were usually printed in editions of fifty and include Thames-side , Bull Fight , Spain , Tropical Landscape , Horse Guards in their Dressing Rooms at Whitehall and Working Men 's College , this last relating to his association with the Working Men 's College in Crowndale Road , Mornington Crescent , where he gave a lecture , ‘ The Painter 's Intention ’ , in 1952 , taught lithography and also acted as Art Adviser . |
| 21 | Breaking the five-figure mark again , he sold for 10,800gn to the judge , Roger Hazard , Grantham , Lincolnshire . |
| 22 | The Basquiat estate is after twenty or so paintings , which Baghoomian says he sold for cash immediately after Basquiat 's death . |
| 23 | He 's a very bright man , Michael Howard , but it 's quite clear that he 's much more concerned with grabbing the headlines and finding scapegoats , than with taking action through law that will actually improve the chance , both of preventing crime and of detecting crime , and then even more so , deterring people from re-offending , and it 's most distressing to see that when research showed that a particular non-custodial method of punishment is effective in perhaps fifty or seventy or eighty percent of cases , whereas prison is not , he goes for prison , he goes for picking on squatters , he goes for picking on the defendants right to silence so that we can see more people like er , jailed when they were innocent . |
| 24 | He goes for walks with the boys and they talk about fishing and tractors . ’ |
| 25 | erm , because she 's , she 's quite big for her age , but like Louise she 's quite tall now , she 's nearly too tall for him even though there 's nothing of her she must only be about seven stone , erm , but this little Vicky she 's oh thinking she 's really good now and she 's improved so much and getting confident as well , and the dad takes in , he puts the bridle on him , he takes the dog in one hand and Min in the other he goes for walks for miles with the , with the horse and the dog Dave does |
| 26 | Newlands 's tables did contain errors and anomalies , but after 1869 , when more accurate and comprehensive studies by Mendeleyev and J. Lothar Meyer began to appear , he argued for recognition of his priority . |
| 27 | He rode for Boro Bears at 16 , before he joined Bradford for a £20,000 fee . |
| 28 | Water filled his mouth as he fought for air . |
| 29 | Her father was choking for breath , clutching his throat as he fought for air . |
| 30 | He fought for air — his lungs were bursting — the pain was unbearable — he knew that he was drowning … . |