Example sentences of "he [adv] [verb] for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | John phoned him up looking for a bass player and Cliff gave him my number . |
| 2 | This might throw light on his uncomplimentary nickname too , and on how , as the charter S 933 of 1014 reveals , " the attacks and plunderings of the evil Danes " gave him possession of a Dorset estate of the church of Sherborne , which he eventually sold for a great price in gold and silver to a friend of the monks , who returned it to them . |
| 3 | His coaching duties with the Scotland sevens squad concluded for the day , he duly appeared for the second half of the semi-final against the relatively fresh-faced youths of White Hart Marauders — inspired by England internationalists , Dewi Morris and Jeremy Guscott , and B caps , Damian Hopley and Justyn Cassell . |
| 4 | Midst all this , Atherton , who had fought desperately hard for almost 4½ hours , made an allowable mistake when he wearily felt for a rare straightish and wider ball from Waqar . |
| 5 | He rarely went for a tightframed shot , but instead honed in on whatever it was the subject had and made them give him more . |
| 6 | Isambard had halted and turned in the passage , frowning a little , in two minds whether to go back to him , but in the end he did not ; he merely waited for a little while , listening until the torrent of defiance had grown strangely shaken and softened with moments of entreaty . |
| 7 | He only entered for the Foreign Office and the block plan , with a total of ten drawings , and was awarded one of the fifth prizes for his Foreign Office design . |
| 8 | He had no strong views on fox hunting , he just went for a cheap day out . |
| 9 | In addressing them he utters no words of condemnation as he does in the case of the scribes and Pharisees , yet he nevertheless looks for an unconditional and wholehearted response from them . |
| 10 | Housekeeper Anne Jackson told how Mr Elton had turned the sitting room of his £750,000 London flat into an office as he desperately hunted for a new job . |
| 11 | He never gives his name , and he always asks for the same dedication . |
| 12 | He always looks for the best in people or in any given situation . |
| 13 | He once sung for an international audience of 1,000 , in the middle of a moat in Israel . |
| 14 | He wisely asked for the downward transition after a circuit and the mare came down to trot , threw her head up briefly and then rounded again . |
| 15 | If he also asks for a large deposit , the alarm bells should be ringing . |
| 16 | He also asked for a similar offence to be taken into consideration . |
| 17 | He also called for a full investigation into Orkney 's Social Work Department , and the RSSPCC whose involvement was turning out to be very much more fundamental than had at first been supposed . |
| 18 | He also called for an early announcement of a balanced energy policy to stimulate the heavy engineering sector . |
| 19 | He also answered for the general practitioner , dental and pharmaceutical services . |
| 20 | He was so tall and masculine that he probably went for the dainty feminine types . |
| 21 | But I would make clear to Mr if he looks at the minutes of the budget review sub-committee , that the suggestion of the director of property services wastes his time fully exploring all options for the disposal of all or any part of the County Farms estate , for which he probably asks for a large amount of money , since it involves an enormous amount of wasted time , is not been agreed , it 's a non-delegated item , it was a recommendation of this committee which has not been moved at this committee , and it was a most unfortunate and woolly form of words . |
| 22 | That makes me think he must have connections with the Jordanian Government — he probably works for the Jordanian Secret Service , either full time or in some ad hoc capacity . |
| 23 | Downing Street yesterday firmly rejected bitter criticism by President Clinton of ‘ unfair ’ subsidies towards the European Airbus which he partly blamed for the threatened loss of 28,000 Boeing jobs . |
| 24 | NEIL KINNOCK yesterday declared himself fit to be Prime Minister , by claiming in an end-of-conference message that he now speaks for the British people . |
| 25 | A graduate in urban and regional planning , he originally worked for the Urban Wildlife Trust in Birmingham and also spent a period as an environmental planning consultant . |
| 26 | A six-iron second shot reduced the 15th to an easy birdie , he narrowly missed for a two at the next and then finished three , three with first a seven-iron and then a nine-iron which landed close to the flags . |
| 27 | In 1900 he went to St Thomas 's Hospital to study medicine , qualifying in 1906 as MRCS and LRCP , and he then went for a short time to Brompton Hospital and Convalescent Centre . |
| 28 | He then surveyed for a French company a number of railway lines in Italy and Switzerland , before returning to England , where he worked on the Birmingham and Wolverhampton Railway and the Kennet and Avon and Stourbridge canals . |
| 29 | He then waited for the next major religious festival — Whitsuntide — and made the translation into a great occasion , although with troops at hand in case of trouble . |
| 30 | He then fainted for a few seconds . |