Example sentences of "[coord] he [verb] for [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Ken Wolstenholme was never really lost to football after he left the Beeb and he commentated for a time on ITV 's Tyne Tees station and recently worked for Tottenham 's Clubcall line .
2 The author of The Jovial Cutlers , Joseph Mather , was himself a working cutler and he wrote for an audience of his fellows .
3 The question was direct and he blinked for a moment before answering : ‘ Yes , ’ he said , ‘ honestly yes , I will .
4 And he sent for the Bishop of Valencia , and took their vows and made them plight themselves each to the other according as the law directs .
5 I said I 'd be in any time after six that evening and he came for the key precisely on the hour . ’
6 He is 16 — around the age Roy was when he became a star — and he plays for the Melchester youth team .
7 A real wanderer , and he looked for a sign of her inheritance in himself .
8 Then he arose in fear , and called for light , and it was brought him ; and he looked for the leper and could see nothing ; so he returned into the bed , leaving the light burning .
9 His confidence grew and he applied for a job at the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre at Stratford upon Avon .
10 Chatam had not been seen in public since finishing fourth to Sibton Abbey in the Hennessy at Newbury in November , and Pipe said yesterday : ‘ It was a fine run considering he had been off the course for so long and he goes for the Gold Cup with every chance .
11 And he pleaded for the public to write to Premier John Major to protest at the move .
12 A snow-covered hedge loomed up ahead of him and he made for the shelter of it .
13 Inevitably , he came under the scrutiny of the bigger clubs and Spurs and Brentford made offers , but he eventually moved rather suddenly in October 1935 to Norwich City , when the Canaries paid their record fee to obtain his services , and he played for the Carrow Road club until the war .
14 It seemed as if it were coming from a long distance and he waited for a moment , and the moment went into a full minute , and then slowly he opened the door .
15 He had known it would not satisfy them , and he waited for the rumbles to grow before he said : ‘ Very well .
16 His wages in 1780 were 20 shillings ( £1 ) a week and he asked for an increase to 2 guineas ( £2.10 ) a week .
17 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 .
18 And he paused for a moment before adding wistfully , ‘ more 's the pity . ’
19 Panels lit up and he reached for a number of X-ray plates which he attached to the luminescent plastic .
20 But when he tried to stand a cry of pain escaped him and he reached for the wall of the stables for support .
21 His food came — they do n't mess about here and he reached for the salt .
22 That left just one door , and he hesitated for a moment before opening it .
23 Perhaps she heard his steps before he knocked — she opened the door very quickly — and he wondered for a moment if she had been as she had when he last saw her , standing just inside the door , her head on one side , listening , as she had listened to the bombs , and to the siren she heard before it was sounded .
24 And he prepares for the axe every time boss Walter Smith names a European Cup squad .
25 The crowd opened up and he headed for the gate .
26 At the LCY central committee plenum in October Simic also said that the new programme of reform could not be implemented by the LCY , and he called for a referendum on these questions and on the Constitution .
27 In a conference fringe speech which appeared to set out his own personal manifesto , the Leader of the Commons also echoed Mr Heseltine 's views on the need to take a more positive attitude to the European Community , and he called for a moderation of the Government 's confrontational style .
28 Estonian President Lennart Meri said that the suspension contradicted earlier agreements , and he called for the issue to be discussed by the foreign ministers of the Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe ( CSCE ) at their forthcoming meeting in Sweden .
29 Speaking after a visit to the Soviet Union , he said that the state of the Chernobyl plant was " shocking " , and he called for the closure of the three reactors still operational [ see Chernobyl article in this issue ] .
30 ‘ Michael ran a cab and he worked for the bookies on the side .
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