Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] he [verb] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is selected from the pages of the BDN , to which he was a frequent contributor and on whose editorial board he served for a long period : A combined system is one which includes all useful methods and techniques and adapts them and uses them according to the particular needs of the child . |
| 2 | His high profile as a comedian , poet , singer and musician has a lot to do with the regular weekly poem he writes for the Weekend Guardian , recent appearances on radio in ‘ Kaleidoscope ’ and ‘ Loose Ends ’ and the ‘ Time Out ’ Cabaret Award , but it is in his live stage act that he can best be appreciated as an hilarious dead-pan comic . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | In the Critique of Pure Reason he called for a ‘ Copernican revolution ’ in our ideas about knowledge . |
| 5 | In a very matter-of-fact voice he apologised for the shut down , due to engine failure , adding laconically that he had left ten thousand pounds worth of tyres on the runway . |
| 6 | Jessica was besotted with his crooked organ , and Rory discovered two moles inside her fine , rich pubic hair he claimed for the Pope in Rome . |
| 7 | Towards the end of his long life he married for the second time . |
| 8 | ‘ That philosopher , ’ said Scarlet , who seemed to have forgotten about going home , ‘ the one I was telling you about , he used to go galloping after women all over the place when his hair and his teeth were all falling out , and he used to write about the terrific compassion he felt for the human race , and his breath was foul . |
| 9 | His churches showed an equally acute awareness of changing fashions : the neo-perpendicular of his fan-vaulted church of St John , Edinburgh ( 1818 ) , which challenged comparison with anything in England at that date , was superseded by the elegant Early English and neo-Norman of the numerous churches he built for the Duke of Buccleuch in the 1830s , and in 1843 by the mid-Decorated of his St Mary 's , Dundee , in which he reproduced in a much richer form the arcades and clerestory of the burned-down medieval church instead of building the usual preaching box desired by presbyterian divines at that time . |
| 10 | By adopting a text-based approach he searches for an explicit and comprehensive communicative theory which can account for the psychological effects created by poetic texts . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | He has one rig in our room , another one in dad 's car and a third in the big truck he drives for the frozen meat company . |
| 13 | As he hung about the Red Anchor he noticed for the first time that its character was changing . |
| 14 | To confirm that it was due to free radical production he searched for a less complicated generator of oxygen radicals . |
| 15 | In the main street he paused for a rest . |