Example sentences of "he [verb] [adv] [verb] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then , as he goes on listening for a few weeks , looking carefully at ever-new pictures of different cases , a tentative understanding will dawn on him ; he will gradually forget about the ribs and begin to see the lungs . |
| 2 | After the South African War , he tried unsuccessfully to stand for the South African parliament before returning home to marry Lady Mary Douglas Hamilton . |
| 3 | It 's a route he has just retraced for the character of Fergus , the IRA man who attempts to re-make his life in The Crying Game ] , an experience Jordan understands well . |
| 4 | Sometimes when Tuffers has been hit for four , he has immediately asked for a fielder to be moved to plug the gap . |
| 5 | He has n't trained for a month and wo n't travel with the 18-man squad . |
| 6 | Taylor said : ‘ Freidle would n't meet the criteria for a work permit if he has n't played for the full international side of a country that does n't have a high standard of football . |
| 7 | He has already asked for a return match and when I have had a rest I shall try to accommodate him . ’ |
| 8 | And he has also argued for a tougher approach to environmental enforcement and development of environmental technology . |
| 9 | He has also called for an election to a constituent assembly to be held within two months , to restore ‘ institutional democracy … as soon as possible . ’ |
| 10 | He has also worked for a period , several years ago with the dye house production control at Templetons . |
| 11 | If there is a contract and the seller has delivered to the buyer , the latter obtains ownership even though he has not paid for the item . |
| 12 | When asked how he has chosen between the various versions of the same subject by Titian , Laclotte says that he has simply aimed for the best . |
| 13 | He 'd already asked for a copy of the calendars of the Carmelite , Nicholas of Lyn . |
| 14 | He 'd probably asked for the best sherry available , she rightly guessed . |
| 15 | Then , during the afternoon he put in a personal appearance at three of the funeral parlours that he 'd recently acquired for the company as part of his new expansion programme . |
| 16 | While Lee 's claims on Dickerson are evidently still large , perhaps he 'd better look for a new cinematographer now that his old pal has a director 's credit . |
| 17 | ‘ Do n't ever , ’ and Donald took another breath , through his mouth this time , as if he 'd only surfaced for a moment , ‘ do n't EVER eat my beans again . ’ |
| 18 | No rule of law or the profession , therefore , prevents him from entering into a contract by which he undertakes not to act for a specified class of person . |
| 19 | Now it belonged to Frankie , and while he secretly warmed himself in its folds he spared little thought for the comfort of its previous owner . |
| 20 | In the end , Coleman had to let it pass , although he contrived not to pay for the footage , and duly noted the DEA 's systematic corruption of the media in one of his back-channel reports to Donleavy . |
| 21 | Putting the thoughts out of his head , he settled back to wait for the next people who could keep the Americans busy . |
| 22 | He flew around hoping for a break in the visibility . |
| 23 | He chose not to read for a fellowship and once it became clear that he was no longer in the race for academic honours he was not required to take all the examinations . |
| 24 | He refused an invitation from the EC 's energy authority to investigate the possibilities of translating electricity , generated within green plants , into a new source of fuel : he did not care for the clause giving the EC the right to suppress anything in the eventual reports . |
| 25 | He did not press for an immediate renewal of Anselm 's homage ; and William Giffard stopped calling himself bishop of Winchester . |
| 26 | He was educated at Eton and Trinity College , Cambridge , where he did not sit for a degree . |
| 27 | There was only one way in , by the drawbridge and the gate-towers ; he had racked his brains for an alternative , but there was none , short of procuring an ally within the walls , and that idea he did not entertain for a moment . |
| 28 | Roger Kenyon started slightly , but he did not speak for a moment . |
| 29 | ‘ Was n't that terrific ? ’ she turned to Ven to eagerly exclaim — and felt her heart begin to race yet again when , his expression somehow gentle , he did not speak for a moment but just stood and looked at her . |
| 30 | He too listened closely to the arguments in the morning , but after a pub lunch with his staff , he did not return for the afternoon evidence . |