Example sentences of "[pron] he be [verb] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The most comprehensive survey of Nicholson 's art since the exhibition held at the Gulbenkian Foundation , Lisbon , and the Fondacion Juan March , Madrid , in 1987 , it is Lewison 's dress rehearsal for the major retrospective of more than one hundred works which he is organising for the Tate Gallery in the autumn of1994 . |
| 2 | Sir John Wolfenden , the then vice-chancellor of Reading University , was chosen to be its Chairman , a job which he was to hold for the three years that the Committee took to produce its Report . |
| 3 | Philip of France had sent a force of Brabançons to help his brother-in-law , the opening shot in a campaign which he was to wage for the next thirty years . |
| 4 | It is perhaps not by chance that the first Greek book to speak extensively about the Jews was written by an adviser of Ptolemy I in the years in which he was campaigning for the conquest of Palestine . |
| 5 | Then , while under contract to both RKO and David O Selznick , he was cast by director William Wellman as a tough army captain in The Story of GI Joe ( 1945 ) , for which he was nominated for a Best Supporting Actor Oscar . |
| 6 | The movie was quickly forgotten but director Martin Scorsese remembered Pesci and hired him to play Joey La Motta in Raging Bull , for which he was nominated for an Oscar . |
| 7 | He directed the Orchard Gallery in Derry , ( 1978–84 ) for which he was nominated for the Turner prize . |
| 8 | ‘ Perhaps it is saying something when I tell you he was aiming for the optician 's and ended up in the carpet shop , ’ he said . |
| 9 | I knew then that what I was telling him he was hearing for the first time . |
| 10 | I told him he was looking for the mother he 'd never had , but of course he would n't listen . |
| 11 | Heydrich did not need to file a flight plan — had no intention of so doing-but he strolled to the control tower to tell them he was going for a spin . |
| 12 | I think Wilko is the best we could have possibly gotten in a manager and people ( including me unto recently when I was put right ) are ready to forget what he 's done for the club . |
| 13 | ca n't do anything about it David we 're getting in touch with Blackpool , summat 's gone wrong somewhere along the line , that 's what he 's waiting for a call |