Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] he [verb] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not all the crew was impressed with the wild beauty however , although Dave Scadding , my number one really fell in love with Scotland , so much so that he applied for a transfer to Kirkwall on our return to Southampton . |
| 2 | Perhaps if he listened for a bit and then jeered , he would at least be able to jeer from a better-informed position . |
| 3 | Zacchaeus was a tax-collector and was very unpopular with the Jews , not only because he worked for the Romans but also because he was very rich through cheating people , as he himself admitted ( Luke 19:8 ) . |
| 4 | Maxim wondered if he dressed that way only because he worked for The Firm , and decided probably not . |
| 5 | He taps his pencil up and down as he waits for the finance director to finish . |
| 6 | Among Fianna Fail members , Mr MacSharry is seen as the man with the courage and determination to revive the party 's flagging fortunes , just as he did for the Irish economy four years ago . |
| 7 | BRITAIN 'S loudest man revealed yesterday that he competed for the title after neighbours complained about his singing in the bath . |
| 8 | Everyone hastened to stand aside as he made for the door . |
| 9 | ‘ It was the talk of the set — the rumour monitors were working overtime , ’ Jim said yesterday as he talked for the first time about the couple 's whirlwind romance . |
| 10 | But Gloucester also insisted throughout that he stood for the continuance of Edward IV 's regime , an emphasis which inevitably played down the political significance of the ‘ outs ’ . |
| 11 | But Gloucester also insisted throughout that he stood for the continuance of Edward IV 's regime , an emphasis which inevitably played down the political significance of the ‘ outs ’ . |
| 12 | Panels lit up and he reached for a number of X-ray plates which he attached to the luminescent plastic . |
| 13 | He tipped his seat back and zipped his jacket right up and he asked for the music to go on again , and he lay there in the dark with the music on , feeling warm in the middle of the freezing night , and he could feel himself smiling . |
| 14 | The crowd opened up and he headed for the gate . |
| 15 | I do believe , however , that he proceeded in considerable apprehension in his dealings with the lady ; in fact , that he was plainly frightened of her because of her quick temper and also because he had for a number of reasons formed a most favourable view of her judgement . |
| 16 | Better though that he simmered for a while , Carrie thought as she stirred the greens and tested the potatoes with a fork . |
| 17 | Alec Stewart ran himself out as he tried for a sharp single to cover and found Atherton unwilling to budge at the non-striker 's end . |
| 18 | Meanwhile , former Tottenham player Gary Lineker 's Japanese adventure got underway when he trained for the first time with his Grampus Eight teammates at Nagoya yesterday . |
| 19 | In so far as he argued for the separation of economics from politics for the purpose of analysis , in a theoretical examination of the Soviet economy he seemed to be following in the footsteps of Marx . |
| 20 | His lips clamped together and he raised one corner of his thin mouth in a spiteful leer , his large bald head nodding deliberately to and fro while he waited for the younger man 's response . |
| 21 | In a year or two he should have a decent sized flock — of course he 's not normally down here this early , he only has a bit of a stable down here that he rents for the summer along with his few acres of grass and his bit of land for cultivation . |
| 22 | Toby was a well-known golf writer , even if he wrote for a newspaper that was rarely , if ever , seen in the boardrooms of Britain . |
| 23 | Even if he aims for a gross profit 5–10% less than a competitor , Mendoros believes , overheads are such that he should come out better at the net level . |
| 24 | His food came — they do n't mess about here and he reached for the salt . |
| 25 | But even as he reached for the man he lost his footing . |
| 26 | Well it must be ten years ago when he worked for the B B C and that , he must have been in his late twenties then |
| 27 | It seems to have been about then that he mentioned for the first time that he thought he was being poisoned with acqua toffana ( a notorious Italian poison ) . |
| 28 | We were back in the bedroom then and he stood for a moment looking down at her . |
| 29 | Alan left him howling in the cot again while he went for a bowl of water . |
| 30 | In Wilson 's first defeat by a British competitor over this distance for 2½ years the two swam neck and neck for just over half the race before Akers suddenly pulled ahead as he searched for an Olympic qualifying time . |