Example sentences of "and he [be] [verb] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His ankle is badly swollen and he is struggling for the weekend . ’ |
| 2 | Now the strings have gone slack , and he is waiting for the end . |
| 3 | He has kicked the booze , lost weight , and he is itching for the Italian League to get under way . |
| 4 | You 're in the nearside lane and you 're going uphill and er you 're trunking away quite nicely , you see a guy coming down in the fast lane , down the hill getting a bit of a roll on , fully laden , and he gets halfway up the hill , he runs out of steam and he 's looking for a hole to get into . |
| 5 | A decade on he wants to return to the islands and he 's advertising for a Herefordshire woman to accompany him . |
| 6 | He 's never given enough clean clothes and he 's chastised for the slightest thing . |
| 7 | Ooh , he was funny though , he was coming like that , and he 's dying for a stroke |
| 8 | I ask you : just twenty-one years old , leading the Open , six holes to go and he 's going for the green ! |
| 9 | The wild bohemianism of the life at Kisling 's was stimulating and hectic but a drain on Modigliani 's limited energy and he was looking for a change in his life . |
| 10 | I met the promoter at a party and he was looking for an opening act and I said that I had this dance band which would be a perfect opener for Gary Glitter and he took us on . |
| 11 | The famous Swedish Don Giovanni , John Forsell , declared that the young Tauber was the greatest Ottavio he had ever heard , and he was noted for the intense conviction with which he declaimed to his Donna Anna ( in the German text then still generally in use , even at festivals ) the solemn oath , ‘ Ich schwöre ’ . |
| 12 | It was said with a kind of embarrassed formality as if he , not Dalgliesh , were the host and he was apologizing for the unexpected absence of the hostess . |
| 13 | And he was waiting for the final match in the other group between Stefan Edberg and Boris Becker to see if his No 1 ranking could be threatened . |
| 14 | The Mr Universe competition brought him to London , and he was recruited for a tour of South Pacific which needed men for the chorus . |
| 15 | In the bronze medal fight against Axel Lobenstein , of East Germany , White appeared to start with more aggressive determination , but his attacks were way off target and he was thrown for a yuko ( five points ) as he got up off the ground . |