Example sentences of "when he [verb] for [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At an all-time low after the Mandela concert , when he cheered for the benefit of the TV cameras only |
| 2 | Wright pleaded guilty to all charges , and also admitted obtaining £207,000 from the Halifax Building Society by deception when he applied for a mortgage claiming , falsely , that he did not have one . |
| 3 | The company said standard vetting procedures were followed , which did not reveal any adverse information about him when he applied for the post . |
| 4 | When he started to dress in front of the fire the two older girls turned away and when he looked for a collar stud the boy ran to attend . |
| 5 | What a shame that Andy Nicol is not a few years younger , for he too showed himself to be of world class in last year 's celebration of New Zealand 's centenary , when he played for the World XV in Christchurch . |
| 6 | He was at his most sincere when he argued for the South and defended it ferociously against the feebleness of Yankee and British snobberies and prejudice . |
| 7 | And the gesture is Raskolnikov 's too , for example when he feels for the axe slung inside his overcoat . |
| 8 | When he went for the audition , playwright Bernard Kops and director David de Keyser had already cast Melvyn Hayes in the lead role and asked the star to read scenes with those trying for the other parts . |
| 9 | In the first week of January 1979 , President Giscard d'Estaing expounded his view when he met for a summit conference with Jimmy Carter , Hemut Schmidt , the West German chancellor , and James Callaghan , the British prime minister , on the French West Indian island of Guadeloupe . |
| 10 | I hope that a message will go out from my hon. and learned Friend the Minister when he replies for the Government . |
| 11 | His parents were not surprised when he asked for a lock on his bedroom door before he had reached his teenage years . |
| 12 | His Principal looked at him suspiciously when he asked for the day off , and he stuttered , ‘ She brought me up , you know . ’ |
| 13 | That was certainly the impression he gave to Taheb 's gatekeeper , a squat man with one wall-eye , who appraised him pessimistically with the other when he asked for the mistress of the house . |
| 14 | When he stopped for a moment to wipe the sweat from his brow , Trung laid a cautionary hand on his arm . |
| 15 | were you present when he defined for the benefit of my Lord and the jury , what was meant by management charges in that sentence |
| 16 | but when he pauses for the interpreter 's turn |
| 17 | Lord Apsley was nearly four times over the legal limit when he arrived for a function at an army barracks . |
| 18 | — ROBERT Wright will bank on keeping the adrenalin flowing when he bids for a Commonwealth welterweight title upset at London 's Grosvenor House Hotel tomorrow . |