Example sentences of "[noun sg] he [verb] for [art] [noun] " 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | By the advice of his college he competed for a college research Fellowship , known as the Charles Kingsley Bye-Fellowship . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | One of the simplest and most elegant demonstrations of this was by Peter Lawrence , as part of the work he did for a Ph.D at Cambridge . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Like a man stepping out of a dream he woke for a moment . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | At the beginning of the First World War he sailed for the United States of America and spent the next ten years dividing his teaching between there and England . |
| 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 | Alex Brown & Sons financial analyst Mark Stahlman , who coined the phrase network computing , has charged IBM with leaning on The Harvard Business Review hard enough to make it pull a 10,000-word article he wrote for the January issue on ‘ Why IBM Failed . ’ |
| 16 | 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 ) . |
| 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 | But likely to be ruled out of the action is full-back Keith Proctor , who has suffered a reaction to his first game back after a six-week injury lay-off he played for the reserves last weekend and is now likely to have to see a specialist about his troublesome knee . |
| 19 | But likely to be ruled out of the action is fullback Keith Proctor , who has suffered a reaction to his first game back after a six-week injury lay-off he played for the reserves last weekend and is now likely to have to see a specialist about his troublesome knee . |
| 20 | When Major Burrows was stationed at a camp in a nearby suburb Mrs Burrows , Eva and Margaret would take a train each Sunday afternoon to help him with the evening service he conducted for the soldiers . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | The yield to the purchaser then depends on the difference between the price he paid for the bill and its redemption value . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | In the evenings he refused to talk — this was a vow of silence — and once a week he fasted for a day . |
| 29 | By nightfall he believed he was 30 miles from Lubeck , so next morning he headed for the port along with workpeople . |
| 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 . |