Example sentences of "he [vb past] for [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | He made for the central entrance to the choir under the organ and almost collided with Dhani , who giggled . |
| 2 | Outside , the world was waiting for Mr Major 's victory oration and shortly after 1.00 he made for the front door . |
| 3 | While a good case can , in retrospect , he made for the national interest being served by higher prices , there were few at the time who argued against the interpretation of Citrine and Self that there was a long-run obligation to sell as much electricity as possible at as low a price as possible . |
| 4 | Scott inherited the family estate in 1596 , but from 1612 until towards the end of his life he lived for a good part of the year in Canterbury . |
| 5 | In 1902 he lived for a short period in Clerkenwell , east London . |
| 6 | Many of the pieces were purchased by Dubosc in Japan where he lived for the latter part of his life and much of his collection is now in the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ So you will not consider me , after all our friendship ? ’ he asked , and Emily moved restlessly ; he realised for the first time that all her movements were studied . |
| 9 | He recalled Blaney 's pallid and innocuous watercolours of the better-known beauty spots of Norfolk : Blakeney , St Peter Mancroft and the cathedral at Norwich , which he produced for the local shops . |
| 10 | In 1987 he argued for a beefed-up Neddy with the council meetings chaired by the industry secretary rather than by the chancellor . |
| 11 | For three seasons he rode for the Scottish millionaire George Baird ( ‘ Mr Abington ’ ) , training and riding Busybody . |
| 12 | He fought for a local government seat in Islington in 1982 and gained Stockton south from the SDP in 1987 . |
| 13 | Everything here fed his masochism — as he had known instinctively that it would when he applied for a similar position in the English coalfields some years before , only to be told that he was not mature enough . |
| 14 | In December 1937 he applied for a short-service commission in the RAF and to his evident amazement was accepted and sent for elementary flying training in 90 m.p.h . |
| 15 | Repeating a five-year-old falsehood about his nationality , he applied for a one-year renewal of his passport on 24 September 1938 and , on this occasion , repeated what he now knew to be false that he was British by birth . |
| 16 | He applied for the first chair and then thought better of it and withdrew the application ; refused to apply for the second despite the supplications of Cambridge friends ; and finally applied for the third , the chair of primacy , the regius chair made vacant by the retirement of Charles Raven . |
| 17 | In his later life he became for a few months nearly as famous as Ramsey , though in a different context . |
| 18 | Later still he became for a short time a professor at Cambridge . |
| 19 | ’ On the north-east corner he asked for a castellated bell tower in which to house the bell he had brought back from Lille . |
| 20 | The crew of the boat on which he was travelling attacked and were about to kill him when he asked for a last favour — to play a tune . |
| 21 | ‘ He had wanted to be a doctor since he asked for a medical bag for Christmas when he was six-years-old . |
| 22 | He said it was the government 's intention to privatize 30-40 per cent of state assets and he asked for a six-month moratorium on trade union pay demands . |
| 23 | ‘ It is coming ? ’ he asked for the fifth time since they had broken away from the Baglietto . |
| 24 | As he asked for the latest report , Marshka thought about the policeman and the Englishman . |
| 25 | In letters to both John Major and Ian Lang , the Scottish Secretary , he asked for the full cost to be disclosed and expressed concern over the waste of public money . |
| 26 | Sarazen was so sure that Daniels had been the key to his win that he asked for the old boy to be with him when he was presented with the claret jug , saying it was a ‘ team victory ’ . |
| 27 | ‘ What exactly did he take ? ’ he asked for the fourth time . |
| 28 | Obviously unwilling , he asked for an absurd sum for doing so , but eventually Omar settled with him for a reasonable amount . |
| 29 | He asked for an Irish song of love and loss . |
| 30 | He asked for an urgent meeting with Colonel Easterhouse . |