Example sentences of "he [vb -s] [adv] for [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And he waxes portentously for a moment . |
| 2 | Oh , shut up Ryan , and then he sits there for a bit , and she goes , yeah well , you used to wear national health spectacles . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | He lives only for the moment , and he is already a changed man . |
| 5 | They usually give him a 20 pence piece and he heads straight for the bar to buy his favourite ready-salted snack . |
| 6 | long time see , see such an impression of dodgy back acting , poor old William Roche who plays Ken Barlow in Coronation Street has been moaning and groaning and wincing and rising in the most frightful and indeed the most convincing of manners , he has even for the match of the |
| 7 | It is unknown to find any subject of Her Majesty who does not say , when asked , that he cares passionately for the Health Service , and believes that more money should be spent on it . |
| 8 | In fact , ultimately ( as " the most honest theoretical man " , Lessing , perceived ) he cares more for the search after truth than for truth itself . |
| 9 | I fully agree with my noble and learned friend 's observation that the dictum in Morris has led to confusion and complication where those in de facto control have been charged with theft from a company and I , too , consider , on the basis ( which he assumes only for the sake of argument ) that the Morris dictum is correct , that it would be wrong , when a person who by virtue of his position in the company constitutes ‘ the directing mind and will of the company ’ is accused of stealing from the company , to acquit that person on the ground that , in his capacity as the company , he has consented to the taking ( by himself ) of the company 's property , with the result that no appropriation , and therefore no theft , has occurred . |
| 10 | He stays there for the hour or so that is necessary for all the tadpoles to emerge and then returns to his hole . |
| 11 | Anyone who drinks 2½ pints of beer or ½ bottle of wine and then drives a car is almost certainly breaking the law unless he waits patiently for the liver to reduce blood alcohol levels . |
| 12 | However , he argues strongly for the claim that successful handling of aggressive impulses is culturally possible ( see also his paper in this volume ) . |
| 13 | ‘ Do you think his parents are going to be happy when he comes home for the holidays with a scar the length of his face ? ’ |