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

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1 A photographer from Spanish Cosmo tries unsuccessfully to get him to go outside for a shoot .
2 Well we 're gon na try get him to go out for a drink er one evening with that tape recorder so we 're gon na record the conversation on the side of that .
3 ‘ Tell you what , see if you can persuade him to come down for an X-ray .
4 For the last hour his progressively alcoholised brain had reminded him of the consequences of justice ( small ‘ j ’ ) : of bringing a criminal before the courts , ensuring that he was convicted for his sins ( or was it his crimes ? ) , and then getting him locked up for the rest of his life , perhaps , in a prison where he would never again go to the WC without someone observing such an embarrassingly private function , someone smelling him , someone humiliating him .
5 So I had a er I got him set up for the morning jobs and then I did the afternoon jobs with him .
6 She could just imagine him closing in for the kill .
7 ‘ Good , Fox is on remand in Saughton , I 'll get him brought down for an ID parade , Strathclyde will bring Dalton through for us .
8 Do you think there 's any chance of him coming back for the opening of — ? ’
9 Does not he recognise that it is a broadly based representative body in which it was open to the Conservative party to participate and that for him to call now for a debate , once its work is completed , is extraordinary ?
10 When he fell ill in 1857 he was granted £30 to enable him to get away for the winter , and six months ' leave of absence shortly afterwards .
11 office place and give him a bag of plaster and tell him to plaster there for a day either that or send him up
12 When he came back from Livorno in the late summer of 1913 he made straight for the Café Rotonde , to be greeted rapturously by artists and models on the terrace .
13 Noguchi tried in vain to construct an earthwork sculpture at a Japanese-American internment camp where he lived voluntarily for a time during World War II .
14 Collecting her ticket , she came up behind him again as he checked in for the flight .
15 And he waxes portentously for a moment .
16 Stage shows made Leonard Bernstein a very rich man , but he said he cared little for the money , his great love was for the music .
17 Friends say he cared deeply for the countryside and worked tirelessly to improve the public rights of way network through his job as footpath officer for the Richmondshire group of the ramblers ' association , which he helped to start .
18 He goes in for a sort of hall-of-mirrors self-impersonation , telling people how he would have done the murder if he had done it ( which he has ) .
19 The next morning he goes out for a walk round the town .
20 Oh , shut up Ryan , and then he sits there for a bit , and she goes , yeah well , you used to wear national health spectacles .
21 He argued instead for the establishment of a small number of what he termed ‘ freeports ’ , within which unregulated free enterprise would be encouraged .
22 In this he argued powerfully for a revival of social citizenship and the ‘ developmental state ’ .
23 He fought again for the count of Aumale in his rebellion at the end of 1220 .
24 He applied unsuccessfully for the chair of technology at Edinburgh , and in 1862 was appointed keeper of minerals to the Royal Dublin Society , His meteorological output was confined to the translation of Dove 's book but in 1866 he was approached by his intimate friend ( Sir ) Edward Sabine [ q.v. ] , then at the height of his influence as president of the Royal Society and prospective chairman of the new meteorological committee , and was offered the directorship of the Meteorological Office .
25 When he asked once for a volunteer bugler , a particularly blackguardly fellow stepped forward .
26 Grant 's mind was in a whirl as he sought desperately for a way out .
27 So neither one has a right to a decision in his or her favour , and the judge must decide the case according to whichever rule he thinks best for the future , all things considered .
28 He looks around for a moment , pleased as punch , then realizes that his fellow group members have all heard it a dozen times before .
29 Outdoors , he continued to carry the picture while walking bipedally , and he headed directly for the gorilla quarters which were located near the adult-ape house on a hill behind the language lab .
30 He lives only for the moment , and he is already a changed man .
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