Example sentences of "[subord] he be [verb] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Messiaen began composing at the age of seven , entering the Paris Conservatoire four years later where he was to remain for the next 11 years , winning four premiers prix including that for composition in 1930 . |
| 2 | Total secrecy surrounded the morning surgery in Nottingham 's Queen 's Medical Centre where he was treated for an arm injury two years ago , after falling from his polo pony . |
| 3 | Hsu himself grew up in eastern China but his account is evidently a syncretic blend of what he learned as a child from personal experience and what he learned as an adult , several thousand miles away to the west , during fourteen months ' fieldwork in the Yunnanese city of Tali-fu , where he was employed for a while as a teacher in a local missionary college . |
| 4 | ‘ He 's worried about Gairloch so he 's waiting for the vet . ’ |
| 5 | We turn left at the foot and come panting onto a platform where there 's only one old man sitting in his grandfather 's overcoat and he looks like he 's settled for the night . |
| 6 | ‘ I 'll fly out to watch Gazza play against Parma next Sunday if he 's selected for the match . ’ |
| 7 | Erm for instance if he 's asking for the child to go to live with him and you oppose that then then court would make a decision as to where the child s should live . |
| 8 | He looks likely to run in Doncaster 's Flamborough Head Novices Hurdle tomorrow though do not be surprised if he is rerouted for the Grade 2 Berkshire Hurdle at Newbury . |
| 9 | Manipulating a lump of putty from finger to finger , hand to hand , he looked as if he was auditioning for the lead role in The Caine Mutiny . |
| 10 | Yeah that he just , he asked Gary this morning if he was looking for a job |
| 11 | Dad looked as if he was dying for a cigarette : he gave up smoking two years ago when his secretary-before-last got lung cancer . |
| 12 | If he was taken for the army , the light in their house would be damped out forever . |
| 13 | ‘ If he was working for the Private Office in South London on the afternoon in question I should be very surprised indeed . ’ |
| 14 | The bottom line is that whilst Wilko has made decisions which have upset , even annoyed us , if he were to leave for the England job there is no-one remotely capable of replacing him . |
| 15 | Manciple sounded as if he were apologizing for the other man 's rudeness . |
| 16 | It was as if he were preparing for the day he would be a big man himself in this town and wanted everyone on his side , wanted them all to think of him as a customer . |
| 17 | If the chattel has been purchased through a dealer or auction house or in market overt ‘ it can not be recovered from the first purchaser or any subsequent bona fide purchaser , unless he is compensated for the purchase-money paid ’ [ Art . |
| 18 | They could n't really disapprove of him , though they longed to , because he 's studying for the ministry . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ Because he 's studying for the priesthood , ’ said Betty . |
| 20 | Lee missed West 's win at Boroughmuir on Saturday because he was playing for the North under-21s on Sunday , and he scored the injury time try which completed the North 's clean sweep in the Divisional Championship . |
| 21 | The striker , perhaps because he was braced for the offside whistle ( it had looked a bit that way ) , was less than decisive and allowed Michael Watt to save at his feet . |
| 22 | Hayling had been excluded from becoming a Founder first because of his job policing the project for the GLC grant , and then because he was working for the company . |
| 23 | Mills was probably murdered because he was working for the KGB . |
| 24 | Er I remember it so vividly because it , at our house it was quite er an event because mother and father were so Labour and my brother , who erm he , I do n't know why , he 's not alive today and I ca n't so I , and I 've no idea , I do n't think I ever asked him because I 'd be too young , but I do know that the friction was in the house because he was working for the Conservative and she was the first woman that we ever elected er she , this , this lady did . |
| 25 | The most interesting binocular object is M15 , a globular cluster not far below naked-eye visibility ; it was discovered by Maraldi in 1746 , while he was looking for a comet . |
| 26 | Look at Carlos Lopes — I would n't compare myself with Lopes , but the fact is that he ran his fastest 10K while he was training for a marathon [ Lopes ran the then second fastest ever 10,000m , with 17:17.48 in July 1984 , just one month before winning the Olympic marathon in a record 2:09.21 ] . |
| 27 | While he was working for the K.K.K. , he sent the pips to frighten those three men . |
| 28 | Bukharin , since he was writing for a somewhat different purpose — at that point in his exposition — did not assume or leave implicit the equilibrium between society and nature , but instead desired to show that it is a necessary basis , precondition , for the situation that Marx dealt with . |
| 29 | I 've got some quotes here that I 've taken from the book which shows not only how Dickens thought women ought to behave , but how the readers , since he was writing for a public market , the readers too thought the ideal woman ought to behave . |
| 30 | He left the ruling Laban ng Demokratikong Pilipino ( LDP — Democratic Filipino Struggle Party ) after he was defeated for the party 's presidential nomination by Ramon Mitra , the Speaker of the House of Representatives . |