Example sentences of "as he [verb] for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 'd have quite liked to have spent the night on the couch in Polly 's living room , as he had for the last few months of their marriage , but it had not been offered as an option and he supposed it was just as well . |
| 2 | In Wilson 's first defeat by a British competitor over this distance for 2½ years the two swam neck and neck for just over half the race before Akers suddenly pulled ahead as he searched for an Olympic qualifying time . |
| 3 | The cello concerto swelling through the house , the briny tang of the scallops in their marinade , doors opening and closing as he searched for the missing due . |
| 4 | As he asked for the latest report , Marshka thought about the policeman and the Englishman . |
| 5 | As he leaped for the null-grav shaft , he caught sight of the prisoner thrashing through the air two storeys above . |
| 6 | One night as he waited for a young man to find him a cab , I saw my chance . |
| 7 | A POLICEMAN was injured in his patrol car yesterday in an accident as he waited for a nuclear weapons convoy to pass through Glasgow , writes Alan Forbes . |
| 8 | Team captain Linford Christie will lead from the front as he goes for an unprecedented fourth successive 100m crown , while Colin Jackson ( 110m hurdles ) and Eamonn Martin ( 10,000m ) are also selected as defending champions . |
| 9 | Her attacker got a 2 month suspended sentence ; the same as he got for the original theft . |
| 10 | And , as he reached for the pale , fleeing figure of his cousin , he looked like a man with murder in his heart . |
| 11 | As he lay for a few seconds recovering from his efforts , Grant ran his eye along the expanse of the steeply sloping roof . |
| 12 | Yesterday , as he prepared for a new TV series starting on Sunday , Sir David said he was ‘ truly blessed ’ with an honour . |
| 13 | Yohan , an old man , was moved to tears as he read a tract , as he realised for the first time how much God loved him . |
| 14 | ‘ Well , ’ said Jane one afternoon as he emerged for the first time , blinking in the sun , ‘ how 's life in Lotus land ? ’ |
| 15 | In his slow crawl from the corner as he peered for the right number through the flooding windscreen , it had seemed an odd neigh-bourhood for the Fight Game : well-weeded drives , well-painted houses , the cars as recommended by Which ? and Ratepayers ' Association posters in several windows . |
| 16 | Alec Stewart ran himself out as he tried for a sharp single to cover and found Atherton unwilling to budge at the non-striker 's end . |
| 17 | Yes once again the Village Fete sees our Fanciful Pretender ready to join the procession as he has for the past 15 years . |
| 18 | Hankin could bring in another new face as he prepares for the 15-match survival fight . |
| 19 | Sheffield Wednesday 's John Harkes is one of five players with European clubs wanted by United States coach Bora Milutinovic as he prepares for the friendly match against Ireland in Dublin on April 29 . |
| 20 | All the testing at the Yamaha camp in Spain and in Australia , all the preparation , and all the homework are behind him now , and what he has left is the adrenalin pumping in his veins as he prepares for the biggest day of his sporting life . |
| 21 | Among Fianna Fail members , Mr MacSharry is seen as the man with the courage and determination to revive the party 's flagging fortunes , just as he did for the Irish economy four years ago . |
| 22 | In the case of natural language , natives ' pre-formal agreement on the boundaries of grammatical division is the most important kind of evidence the linguist can glean as he searches for the grammatical recipes and ingredients of sentence meaning . |
| 23 | You play Indy , who takes on the Nazis as he searches for the precious power-giving material , Orichalcum . |
| 24 | ‘ It was the talk of the set — the rumour monitors were working overtime , ’ Jim said yesterday as he talked for the first time about the couple 's whirlwind romance . |
| 25 | Wilkinson will now try to qualify for the British Open as he aims for a European tour card later in the year . |