Example sentences of "[conj] [subord] he [verb] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was told that his legal advisers were concerned that if he applied for a taxation this would amount to an adoption of the bills and prejudice his other objections to the bill . |
| 2 | If he asked him to pass the screwdriver he passed the hammer and if he asked for the hammer , he passed the nearest broomhandle , which was usually in another room altogether . |
| 3 | Terry had to go back on Sunday night and before he left for the station hugged his mother and looked fearfully into her drawn face . |
| 4 | When he started to dress in front of the fire the two older girls turned away and when he looked for a collar stud the boy ran to attend . |
| 5 | But if he springs for the Savoy , he 's going to want to try out the stuff he saw in Swedish Au Pairs Get Raunchy . ’ |
| 6 | Perhaps the most significant intellectual advance of the mid-20th century was indeed made by Karl Popper , not because he provided any kind of method for scientists to pursue ( as he decidedly did not ) but because he showed for the first time in formal philosophy , that science is inescapably a human activity , and that if its underlying human-ness is ever shelved it is only temporarily , and for convenience , to ameliorate human frailty . |
| 7 | Soon Godwin was to sell the shop to Collins — and trigger its slow decline — but before he quit for a job as chief editor with Penguin Books he decided to open a paperback section in Old Compton Street . |
| 8 | But after he browsed for a while staff in the Los Angeles shop , told Jacko , above , they were out of stock . |
| 9 | He had not been at Eton himself but when he played for the masters his volleying in the Field Game — the Eton form of football — was long remembered . |
| 10 | but when he pauses for the interpreter 's turn |
| 11 | But as he departed for the pantry the bell rang for afternoon tea to be served . |