Example sentences of "he was [adv] [v-ing] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | According to Stanley Turner , curator of the Michael Peto archive at Dundee University , ‘ he was continuously searching for the vision of a monumental human form to epitomise the universality of whatever scene , situation or event he was out to capture … always intent on raising his workday subjects from fleeting , mundane , accidental movement into symbolic representatives of their class or profession . ’ |
| 2 | He was already acting for a number of young painters including Kisling , Hayden and Kremegne , and was determined to find a way of fostering Modigliani 's talent . |
| 3 | Winking broadly in Lindsey 's direction , he was already heading for the door . |
| 4 | He was just losing for the third time when Celia walked back in , Mitch behind her . |
| 5 | He was also working for the Department of Archaeology and the Museum and , greatest profit of all , teaching English to the daughter of a rich immigrant Hungarian Jewish family who paid him , for just two lessons a week , more money than his poor father had earned by a hard week 's slog in the docks . |
| 6 | He was also working for the British Council , writing for foreign magazines and attending functions organized by the Anglo-Swedish Society or the Norwegian Institute , as well as seeing American G.I.s stationed in London — it seemed to him on occasions that every American sergeant wrote verse . |
| 7 | He was always looking for the catch . |
| 8 | He was always looking for the beginning of something , and he had the energy of someone starting their career . |
| 9 | Today it was to be local aerobatics ; the war in Europe may have ended , but he was eagerly hoping for a posting to the Pacific Theatre . |
| 10 | We all imagined he had some secret new money-spinning idea and soon we 'd all be amazed at what he 'd done to the place , and coming here to marvel at the crowds he 'd managed to attract … but I do n't think he was ever looking for a site for some viable business venture ; I think he was just looking for somewhere suited to his burned-out , fed-up , pissed-off mood . |
| 11 | I wish it was true that he was actually studying for A levels though . |
| 12 | He was suddenly spoiling for a fight again . |
| 13 | She knew he was only pretending for the benefit of their audience . |
| 14 | ‘ Oh , God help him , poor gentleman , ’ Kate laughed , pleased at male incompetence , ‘ he was only looking for the oven when I got in . |
| 15 | He was only waiting for a chance . |
| 16 | I came out of the forces , he was only waiting for the time that I came out , for him to retire . |
| 17 | He was now acting for the two men accused of bombing the Pan Am jumbo jet in 1988 with the loss of 270 lives . |
| 18 | Assuming the Turkey Pens had been situated at the rear of the house , he reckoned he was now heading for the outer fence somewhere off to the north side of the grounds . |
| 19 | He was yesterday caring for the boys , aged four and six . |
| 20 | He was there looking for a place for her — ‘ and he had the children with him ’ . |
| 21 | He claimed that Ferrara and Faenza had been promised to papal authority in 757 as part of the Exarchate of Ravenna before Desiderius became king and while he was still struggling for the crown with his rival King Ratchis . |
| 22 | But , when asked whether he was still looking for a new goalkeeper despite Hitchcock 's form , Porterfield said : ‘ We are always looking to improve our squad of players and we will keep searching . ’ |
| 23 | Mr Parker said yesterday he was still looking for a replacement backer . |
| 24 | He was still looking for the end of the war and the land fit for heroes to live in . |
| 25 | While he was still searching for the right question to ask , the sound of a key in the padlock made them both jump . |
| 26 | Soon after the return of the Beagle , when he was still seeking for a mechanism for evolution , he began a series of notebooks , the M and N notebooks , which are in effect a search for a materialist theory of psychology : they are concerned with anything — for example , the effects of drugs , of ageing — which suggests that thoughts are influenced by the state of the brain . |
| 27 | He was still driving for the McLaren team , this time with the amiable German Jochen Mass , but the team had fallen on relatively lean times , and Emerson , a man short on patience and long on a sense of his own worth — and with two championships to his name — was a sometimes angry and often frustrated man . |
| 28 | When she put the glass down , she saw that he was still waiting for a reply . |
| 29 | Managing director Mike Widmer said he was still waiting for a decision from the transport department but he felt pressure to move had gone . |
| 30 | ‘ 'Then some asshole of a journalist printed a story that he was still working for the Company and a couple of weeks later the Red Brigade snatched both of them . |