Example sentences of "and he [vb past] for [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ken Wolstenholme was never really lost to football after he left the Beeb and he commentated for a time on ITV 's Tyne Tees station and recently worked for Tottenham 's Clubcall line . |
| 2 | The author of The Jovial Cutlers , Joseph Mather , was himself a working cutler and he wrote for an audience of his fellows . |
| 3 | The question was direct and he blinked for a moment before answering : ‘ Yes , ’ he said , ‘ honestly yes , I will . |
| 4 | And he sent for the Bishop of Valencia , and took their vows and made them plight themselves each to the other according as the law directs . |
| 5 | I said I 'd be in any time after six that evening and he came for the key precisely on the hour . ’ |
| 6 | A real wanderer , and he looked for a sign of her inheritance in himself . |
| 7 | Then he arose in fear , and called for light , and it was brought him ; and he looked for the leper and could see nothing ; so he returned into the bed , leaving the light burning . |
| 8 | His confidence grew and he applied for a job at the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre at Stratford upon Avon . |
| 9 | And he pleaded for the public to write to Premier John Major to protest at the move . |
| 10 | A snow-covered hedge loomed up ahead of him and he made for the shelter of it . |
| 11 | It seemed as if it were coming from a long distance and he waited for a moment , and the moment went into a full minute , and then slowly he opened the door . |
| 12 | His wages in 1780 were 20 shillings ( £1 ) a week and he asked for an increase to 2 guineas ( £2.10 ) a week . |
| 13 | He tipped his seat back and zipped his jacket right up and he asked for the music to go on again , and he lay there in the dark with the music on , feeling warm in the middle of the freezing night , and he could feel himself smiling . |
| 14 | And he paused for a moment before adding wistfully , ‘ more 's the pity . ’ |
| 15 | Panels lit up and he reached for a number of X-ray plates which he attached to the luminescent plastic . |
| 16 | But when he tried to stand a cry of pain escaped him and he reached for the wall of the stables for support . |
| 17 | His food came — they do n't mess about here and he reached for the salt . |
| 18 | That left just one door , and he hesitated for a moment before opening it . |
| 19 | Perhaps she heard his steps before he knocked — she opened the door very quickly — and he wondered for a moment if she had been as she had when he last saw her , standing just inside the door , her head on one side , listening , as she had listened to the bombs , and to the siren she heard before it was sounded . |
| 20 | The crowd opened up and he headed for the gate . |
| 21 | At the LCY central committee plenum in October Simic also said that the new programme of reform could not be implemented by the LCY , and he called for a referendum on these questions and on the Constitution . |
| 22 | In a conference fringe speech which appeared to set out his own personal manifesto , the Leader of the Commons also echoed Mr Heseltine 's views on the need to take a more positive attitude to the European Community , and he called for a moderation of the Government 's confrontational style . |
| 23 | Estonian President Lennart Meri said that the suspension contradicted earlier agreements , and he called for the issue to be discussed by the foreign ministers of the Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe ( CSCE ) at their forthcoming meeting in Sweden . |
| 24 | Speaking after a visit to the Soviet Union , he said that the state of the Chernobyl plant was " shocking " , and he called for the closure of the three reactors still operational [ see Chernobyl article in this issue ] . |
| 25 | There was the fork ahead of him , and he slowed for a gap in the oncoming traffic . |
| 26 | Keller 's Zurich upbringing made him into a skiier and sculler , and he raced for the Grasshopper club . |
| 27 | Giving himself dialogue seemed to calm him and he stood for a moment , arms idle at his side , breathing slowly and heavily . |
| 28 | We were back in the bedroom then and he stood for a moment looking down at her . |
| 29 | He was , and he remained for the time being , a figure of comic relief . |
| 30 | The Magistrate 's eye moved from one doctor to the other over the passive rows of tattered skeletons and he forgot for a moment that he was as thin and ragged as they were . |