Example sentences of "he [verb] [adv] for [art] [noun] " 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 | And he waxes portentously for a moment . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Oh , shut up Ryan , and then he sits there for a bit , and she goes , yeah well , you used to wear national health spectacles . |
| 7 | He argued instead for the establishment of a small number of what he termed ‘ freeports ’ , within which unregulated free enterprise would be encouraged . |
| 8 | In this he argued powerfully for a revival of social citizenship and the ‘ developmental state ’ . |
| 9 | He fought again for the count of Aumale in his rebellion at the end of 1220 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | When he asked once for a volunteer bugler , a particularly blackguardly fellow stepped forward . |
| 12 | Grant 's mind was in a whirl as he sought desperately for a way out . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | He lives only for the moment , and he is already a changed man . |
| 16 | They usually give him a 20 pence piece and he heads straight for the bar to buy his favourite ready-salted snack . |
| 17 | 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 |
| 18 | ’ The child was still crying as Alan sat down with him , but he grasped greedily for the milk . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | In fact , ultimately ( as " the most honest theoretical man " , Lessing , perceived ) he cares more for the search after truth than for truth itself . |
| 21 | When the Frenchman saw what was happening , he shouted angrily for the senator to stop . |
| 22 | He played mostly for the reserves , he was paid cash , it was said , while drawing the dole . |
| 23 | He played twice for the Republic of Ireland in 88–89 . |
| 24 | Not that he 'd ever for a moment think of … taking advantage , so to speak , of a young woman of loose morals like Mrs Heatherington-Scott . ’ |
| 25 | He rightly felt that in the age of nuclear weapons any future war in Europe would be an act of suicide and so from 1956 he appealed repeatedly for an improvement in East-West relations and for super-power disengagement in the continent 's central heartland . |
| 26 | He was forced to abandon his original plan for an arched bridge of cast iron by the need for ships to be able to pass through the strait , and he opted instead for a suspension bridge 100 feet above water level and with a span of 579 feet . |
| 27 | I think he ca I think he came tonight for a game of cards that 's all he came |
| 28 | From the very first , he painted professionally for a living and achieved fame primarily for his paintings of Nelsonian and Roman events . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | He stays there for the hour or so that is necessary for all the tadpoles to emerge and then returns to his hole . |