Example sentences of "he [verb] [v-ing] for [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He found working for the Maharajah so enjoyable that he refused to accept one penny in payment for his 18 years ' service , although the Maharajah supplied all his material needs . |
| 2 | He stopped speaking for a moment , like a man walking who comes to a brink ; perhaps it was an artful pause , but it made the stars , the night , seem to wait , as if story , narration , history , lay imbricated in the nature of things ; and the cosmos was for the story , not the story for the cosmos . |
| 3 | He began digging for the pipe , which was expected to be about half a metre down . |
| 4 | He began working for a master 's degree , studying the language of medieval petitions in the Public Record Office . |
| 5 | The second day he started looking for a house to rent . |
| 6 | After all , Mozart was only five when he started composing for the piano and look what happened to him . |
| 7 | He started studying for the degree with in 1986 . |
| 8 | He went looking for a gas leak with a lighted match . ’ |
| 9 | Neither , though , does he regret re-signing for the club last summer after intense speculation that had him moving under freedom of contract to an assortment of clubs in England or the continent . |
| 10 | ‘ Hello , Gerald , ’ he said looking for a kind word from someone . |
| 11 | He continued surveying for the Earl of Radnor in Oxfordshire and for the Earl of Salisbury in Hertfordshire , among others . |
| 12 | He considered asking for the feather back but knew the request would sound foolish . |
| 13 | As he stood waiting for the kettle to boil , he reflected that he had nothing so good and lavish as he had observed through the open door of Mrs Farmer 's kitchen . |