Example sentences of "[noun] he [verb] for [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Without showing any sign of emotion he stood for a while at the head of the bier . |
| 2 | Among his patrons was Lord Conway , a wealthy Irish peer whose agent he became for the purchase of rare books in London . |
| 3 | ‘ So you have to keep at him because like all kids he lives for the telly and various electronic gadgets and he 'd be quite happy eating crisps and playing for the rest of his life . |
| 4 | On the advice of Lyell and Hooker he arranged for an account of his own theory to be published alongside Wallace 's paper by the Linnean Society of London . |
| 5 | By the advice of his college he competed for a college research Fellowship , known as the Charles Kingsley Bye-Fellowship . |
| 6 | It is unfortunate that Dustin did not similarly mime the songs he sings while strumming a guitar ( an instrument he studied for the part ) , because his singing voice is strained and uncomfortably high . |
| 7 | Indeed , he thinks that whereas the master fails to gain a proper sense of himself from the slave , because the slave merely carries out his ( the master 's ) will , the slave does gain a certain degree of self-consciousness by means of the work he performs for the master . |
| 8 | Having marched from Inverness along the side of Loch Ness he waited for a day in the hope that more pack-horses would turn up , but when none were forthcoming left behind most of his supplies and provisions , though his men were still heavily burdened as they crossed the mountains in search of the enemy ; roads in the Highlands , and local sources of supply , were almost non-existent . |
| 9 | On leaving Oxford without a degree he studied for the stage at the Embassy Theatre School , and made his London début at the Queen 's Theatre on 6 September 1937 with ( Sir ) John Gielgud in Shakespeare 's Richard II . |
| 10 | Once when Guntram was out hunting he paused for a rest , and while he was sleeping a dragon climbed out of his mouth , crossed a neighbouring stream , vanished , returned and climbed back . |
| 11 | Like a man stepping out of a dream he woke for a moment . |
| 12 | When I went to live in the attic , Jean-Claude still took it for granted that the wood he needed for the stove should be filched from the railway sidings . |
| 13 | In the hallway he called for a cab for her , going to Islington . |
| 14 | Well I know the article he wrote for the Society 's Quarterly . |
| 15 | When he left Serbia in 1813 he joined the South Slav community in Vienna , where he came to the notice of the imperial censor for Slavonic languages as a result of an article he wrote for the newspaper Srpske Novine ( Serbian News ) . |
| 16 | As soon as we had cleared customs he made for a bank of telephones , and when he rejoined me he was smiling . |
| 17 | Certainly the saw he bought for the mill I think that has great prospects and you know there 's no two ways about it , it could help production and ease the work of the workforce . |
| 18 | When they acquired holes he applied for a clothing grant . |
| 19 | He described himself as the ‘ natural son ’ of his parents on his baptism certificate , and this may explain the affinity he felt for the boy . |
| 20 | The yield to the purchaser then depends on the difference between the price he paid for the bill and its redemption value . |
| 21 | Put very simply , the retailer 's profit is the difference between the price he pays for an item ( cost price ) and the price he charges the customer . |
| 22 | For John Lawer — three-wheeled and proud of it — being treated like a second-class motorist is the price he pays for the car he drives . |
| 23 | For John Lawer — three-wheeled and proud of it — being treated like a second-class motorist is the price he pays for the car he drives . |
| 24 | As he stepped back into the circle of dimming green light issuing from the door of the transmat booth he looked for a moment like some bizarre demon that Francis had summoned . |
| 25 | In 1849 Holford purchased the freehold of the old Dorchester House , with its 100 yards of frontage to Park Lane : he chose Lewis Vulliamy [ q.v. ] as his architect to design the Italianate palazzo he planned for the site . |
| 26 | In the evenings he refused to talk — this was a vow of silence — and once a week he fasted for a day . |
| 27 | A few weeks later he scored the first of three hat-tricks he hit for the Palace when we toppled his former club , Watford , by 4–1 at Vicarage Road . |
| 28 | By nightfall he believed he was 30 miles from Lubeck , so next morning he headed for the port along with workpeople . |
| 29 | To Miss D'Arcy he was Colonel Hope ; to Mary he had for a moment been Augustus ; to his new self , John alone ; with Joanna he had no name and experienced the inscrutable animal comfort of brief blank joy . |
| 30 | Professor Williams 's views on the proper scope of the crime of rape coupled with the limited role he advocates for the offence of procuring by threat suggest that he does not consider that the criminal law should be over-active in protecting the sexual autonomy of women . |