Example sentences of "he [verb] for [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | She thought his Catholicism , the emotion he mistook for faith , was a pity . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The Basquiat estate is after twenty or so paintings , which Baghoomian says he sold for cash immediately after Basquiat 's death . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Water filled his mouth as he fought for air . |
| 10 | Her father was choking for breath , clutching his throat as he fought for air . |
| 11 | He fought for air — his lungs were bursting — the pain was unbearable — he knew that he was drowning … . |
| 12 | … screaming as he lurched from his bed , his hands groping for his throat , his chest heaving convulsively as he fought for air . |
| 13 | Harding was looking at him now all right , voice shaking as he fought for control : ‘ Firstly … |
| 14 | John Fleg 's chest heaved as he fought for breath . |
| 15 | When he applied for immigration into Australia he had to undergo a routine medical examination . |
| 16 | From Germany , they travelled by train to Sweden , where he applied for asylum , the first American citizen to do so since the Vietnam War . |
| 17 | He applied for discovery of certain internal police reports . |
| 18 | Further honours awaited him at Bologna , where he applied for membership of the Accademia Filarmonica . |
| 19 | The landlord was aware of the fact that she had made that application but , notwithstanding that , on 4 December 1989 he applied for execution . |
| 20 | He applied for job after job , unsuccessfully , for weeks : he was in his early fifties , and this was the era of ‘ too old at forty ’ , let alone fifty . |
| 21 | He claimed that customers were appalled by the players ' language and that when he asked for order they threatened to punch out his lights . |
| 22 | Soon he asked for payment and William complied . |
| 23 | He asked for prayer about the journey to Jerusalem , knowing the tensions that existed between the Christians who had been of the Jewish faith , and those who were converted Gentiles . |
| 24 | Before kiln operator Steve Kelly died at 55 , he asked for help to be given to the team of Macmillan nurses who cared for him in his last months . |
| 25 | Mrs Stevens eventually gave him 5/ and when he asked for clothing suggested that he look in a nearby workman 's shed . |
| 26 | Although Kirk does not record that he raised any specific objection to this , or that he asked for confirmation that the Cossacks were all Soviet nationals within the terms of allied policy , he nevertheless includes the exchanges about the Cossacks among the points on which he requests the State Department 's views . |
| 27 | Secondly , he asked for authority to begin negotiations with Tolbukhin for the hand-over of the Cossacks . |
| 28 | He demurred , he asked for time to think , to consult his wife , to put the proposal to his daughter . |
| 29 | He asked for time to consider , but this was brushed aside and Nu , willy-nilly , became MP for Mergui , a place he had never previously visited . |
| 30 | He asked for coffee and fresh cake . |