Example sentences of "he [verb] [verb] for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Watch him wobble onto the dance floor as he goes looking for a decent record collection ( ie no Alice Cooper or Frank Zappa ) in CodeMasters ' happenin' hit … |
| 2 | The badges of honour he sports on his veteran 's beret when he goes dining for the old soldiers ' vote gave his plea a sort of authority . |
| 3 | Wright is not that much of a loss — in the games he has played for the national team which i have seen he has not been up to par . |
| 4 | He is nevertheless expected to have an easy win in the Lyons constituency he has represented for the past 13 years . |
| 5 | He has called for the compulsory registration of all property transactions in an attempt to stop the use of secret deals . |
| 6 | Forest want an answer from Keane by the end of this week and he has asked for an extra couple of days to iron out the finer details . |
| 7 | He has to leave for an important luncheon party in a few minutes . ’ |
| 8 | On the contrary , he has pressed for a centralised federation in which Serbia would presumably play a dominant role . |
| 9 | In a wide ranging and at times overtly anti-communist speech , described by the Guardian of March 30 as " more measured and specific than any he has given for a long time " , Yeltsin pilloried central government policy , labelling perestroika the " last phase of the stagnation period " . |
| 10 | Since he resigned as defence secretary over the Westland helicopter affair in 1986 , he has campaigned for an active industrial policy . |
| 11 | Not only is the seat he has held for the past 15 years , in the Yvelines to the west of Paris , now under serious threat , but so too is the whole political future and his dream of a new social democratic movement . |
| 12 | After all , the Minister is always returning to the House to tell us what a wonderful deal he has got for the British farmer and consumer . |
| 13 | His texts were like epic editions of the famous WFMT Chicago radio show he has hosted for the past 35 years , in which he encourages but never intrudes . |
| 14 | That the miller 's knives substitute for his sexual potency rather than reflect it is indicated by the superiority of the clerk 's performance in bed with his wife to anything he has managed for a long time : He has fathered two children , but , like Bayard , his sexual energy is now exhausted . |
| 15 | William Joyce did the same , without such assistance , and entered his name for Battersea Polytechnic , where he proposed to study for the intermediate examination of the London University BSc degree . |
| 16 | It was a request from a colleague : he 'd be grateful if she could cast her eye over an article he 'd written for a quarterly journal , by Friday if possible . |
| 17 | And although her slenderness gave her an air of fragility , Guy had felt the gentle curves of her body when he 'd searched for a concealed weapon . |
| 18 | Was he going to give her some note on performance , some idea he 'd had for a new bit of business in the play ? |
| 19 | It was as if , having goaded her to the point of total capitulation , he 'd opted for a wary cooling-off period . |
| 20 | Etheridge , English-born with Irish parentage , replaces Neil Francis , who withdrew last week because of business commitments , and he intends to play for the Irish Exiles side in their provincial championship debut next season . |
| 21 | In 1828 he began to write for the fledgling Record newspaper and subsequently became its chief proprietor and the dominant influence on editorial policy for half a century . |
| 22 | But it was when he began finding the 26 mile 385 yard distance — which he can complete in two hours and 57 minutes — ‘ about right for starters ’ , that he began to look for a new challenge . |
| 23 | His pacifism was couched in the violent language of subversion and revolution , and long before 1917 he began to look for a distinctive Scottish way out of the war . |
| 24 | He began to look for a safe stance for the night … |
| 25 | He started racing for a small local manufacturer . |
| 26 | He did not feel that he would want to return to university , so he decided to apply for an unclassed ‘ War Honours ’ degree — ‘ probably not worth the paper it 's written on ’ , but perhaps enough to get him started in some profession , such as colonial service or , possibly , journalism ; he rather liked the idea of becoming a parliamentary correspondent for a newspaper . |
| 27 | The solicitor confirmed in his affidavit that he had photocopied the documents which he sent to counsel for the sole purpose of obtaining legal advice from him . |
| 28 | ‘ He chose to look for the spiritual through the physical , like Rimbaud and Kerouac . |
| 29 | When Charles de la Tremoille was mortally wounded in the battle of Marignano in 1515 , his death brought pride for his family since he died fighting for the public good in an engagement at which the king of France himself had been present . |
| 30 | Graham brought proceedings to a standstill , arguing that he was within his rights to declare even though the rules stated he had to bat for the full 10 overs . |