Example sentences of "he [verb] [adv] for [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When he came back from Livorno in the late summer of 1913 he made straight for the Café Rotonde , to be greeted rapturously by artists and models on the terrace . |
| 2 | Noguchi tried in vain to construct an earthwork sculpture at a Japanese-American internment camp where he lived voluntarily for a time during World War II . |
| 3 | Collecting her ticket , she came up behind him again as he checked in for the flight . |
| 4 | And he waxes portentously for a moment . |
| 5 | Stage shows made Leonard Bernstein a very rich man , but he said he cared little for the money , his great love was for the music . |
| 6 | Friends say he cared deeply for the countryside and worked tirelessly to improve the public rights of way network through his job as footpath officer for the Richmondshire group of the ramblers ' association , which he helped to start . |
| 7 | He goes in for a sort of hall-of-mirrors self-impersonation , telling people how he would have done the murder if he had done it ( which he has ) . |
| 8 | The next morning he goes out for a walk round the town . |
| 9 | Oh , shut up Ryan , and then he sits there for a bit , and she goes , yeah well , you used to wear national health spectacles . |
| 10 | He argued instead for the establishment of a small number of what he termed ‘ freeports ’ , within which unregulated free enterprise would be encouraged . |
| 11 | In this he argued powerfully for a revival of social citizenship and the ‘ developmental state ’ . |
| 12 | He fought again for the count of Aumale in his rebellion at the end of 1220 . |
| 13 | He applied unsuccessfully for the chair of technology at Edinburgh , and in 1862 was appointed keeper of minerals to the Royal Dublin Society , His meteorological output was confined to the translation of Dove 's book but in 1866 he was approached by his intimate friend ( Sir ) Edward Sabine [ q.v. ] , then at the height of his influence as president of the Royal Society and prospective chairman of the new meteorological committee , and was offered the directorship of the Meteorological Office . |
| 14 | When he asked once for a volunteer bugler , a particularly blackguardly fellow stepped forward . |
| 15 | Grant 's mind was in a whirl as he sought desperately for a way out . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | He looks around for a moment , pleased as punch , then realizes that his fellow group members have all heard it a dozen times before . |
| 18 | Outdoors , he continued to carry the picture while walking bipedally , and he headed directly for the gorilla quarters which were located near the adult-ape house on a hill behind the language lab . |
| 19 | He lives only for the moment , and he is already a changed man . |
| 20 | They usually give him a 20 pence piece and he heads straight for the bar to buy his favourite ready-salted snack . |
| 21 | 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 |
| 22 | I know that my father did use it for a while , lighting the stove with it , but he has n't for a while . |
| 23 | Finding himself with nine months to kill between school and university he cast round for a job . |
| 24 | Smiling awkwardly , he cast around for a topic of conversation that was n't personal and had difficulty in finding one . |
| 25 | Blanche 's question woke Dexter from his reverie and he cast around for a photograph of Nicola in the room . |
| 26 | He cast around for a chair , shoved some papers aside with a foot and perched on the edge of an armchair . |
| 27 | ’ The child was still crying as Alan sat down with him , but he grasped greedily for the milk . |
| 28 | He wandered around for a while and ran into a few of the household busy with their duties . |
| 29 | He wandered around for a couple of hours having chats with any of the old fellows who were around the place . ’ |
| 30 | 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 . |