Example sentences of "[noun] he [verb] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Without showing any sign of emotion he stood for a while at the head of the bier . |
| 2 | Among his patrons was Lord Conway , a wealthy Irish peer whose agent he became for the purchase of rare books in London . |
| 3 | Then , during his three years in exile he came for the first time into close contact with the main exponents of the Gregorian ideal , and we must ask how far and in what circumstances he adopted the phraseology of the Gregorian reformers ; then , whether he adopted the theoretical structure which their favourite phrase libertas ecclesiae expressed , or adopted the phrase for use only in exceptional circumstances and for special reasons . |
| 4 | ‘ So you have to keep at him because like all kids he lives for the telly and various electronic gadgets and he 'd be quite happy eating crisps and playing for the rest of his life . |
| 5 | After that result he disappeared for a short while , but he returned in time to be included in Wilson 's government , initially as Secretary of State for Economic Affairs , a post he held between 1964 and 1966 . |
| 6 | He and Tasker were chosen by Bonington to be members of the 1982 British Everest Expedition , and shortly before he left Leysin he wrote for the Parents ' Association Newsletter an account of his schooldays , affectionately remembered : |
| 7 | On the advice of Lyell and Hooker he arranged for an account of his own theory to be published alongside Wallace 's paper by the Linnean Society of London . |
| 8 | Gong show VIC REEVES , the big lummox , was on television the other night dropping the gong he received for the most original programme . |
| 9 | By the advice of his college he competed for a college research Fellowship , known as the Charles Kingsley Bye-Fellowship . |
| 10 | Unlike the role it played in the IFL , political anti-semitism never became a total ideological explanation of all the imagined ills of British society for most of the official leadership of the BUF , though there were obvious exceptions like William Joyce and some of the speakers he trained for the East End campaign of 1935 — 7 . |
| 11 | Walter climbed in beside him , trying hard not to show the fear he felt for the mechanical monster . |
| 12 | And the traps he set for the villains would have killed them . |
| 13 | It is unfortunate that Dustin did not similarly mime the songs he sings while strumming a guitar ( an instrument he studied for the part ) , because his singing voice is strained and uncomfortably high . |
| 14 | Indeed , he thinks that whereas the master fails to gain a proper sense of himself from the slave , because the slave merely carries out his ( the master 's ) will , the slave does gain a certain degree of self-consciousness by means of the work he performs for the master . |
| 15 | One of the simplest and most elegant demonstrations of this was by Peter Lawrence , as part of the work he did for a Ph.D at Cambridge . |
| 16 | On I May he left for a Mediterranean cruise in the vain hope that this might cause an improvement . |
| 17 | Having marched from Inverness along the side of Loch Ness he waited for a day in the hope that more pack-horses would turn up , but when none were forthcoming left behind most of his supplies and provisions , though his men were still heavily burdened as they crossed the mountains in search of the enemy ; roads in the Highlands , and local sources of supply , were almost non-existent . |
| 18 | On leaving Oxford without a degree he studied for the stage at the Embassy Theatre School , and made his London début at the Queen 's Theatre on 6 September 1937 with ( Sir ) John Gielgud in Shakespeare 's Richard II . |
| 19 | Once when Guntram was out hunting he paused for a rest , and while he was sleeping a dragon climbed out of his mouth , crossed a neighbouring stream , vanished , returned and climbed back . |
| 20 | Like a man stepping out of a dream he woke for a moment . |
| 21 | When I went to live in the attic , Jean-Claude still took it for granted that the wood he needed for the stove should be filched from the railway sidings . |
| 22 | At the beginning of the First World War he sailed for the United States of America and spent the next ten years dividing his teaching between there and England . |
| 23 | Perhaps because of his career as a Naval Officer during the First World War he worked for a long period during the Second World War at the Admiralty . |
| 24 | In the hallway he called for a cab for her , going to Islington . |
| 25 | As he hung about the Red Anchor he noticed for the first time that its character was changing . |
| 26 | This was very well attended and a committee , with himself as chairman ( a post he held for the next thirty-six years ) , was elected and set to work . |
| 27 | To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science what responsibilities he has for the sports and arts foundation . |
| 28 | Alex Brown & Sons financial analyst Mark Stahlman , who coined the phrase network computing , has charged IBM with leaning on The Harvard Business Review hard enough to make it pull a 10,000-word article he wrote for the January issue on ‘ Why IBM Failed . ’ |
| 29 | When he left Serbia in 1813 he joined the South Slav community in Vienna , where he came to the notice of the imperial censor for Slavonic languages as a result of an article he wrote for the newspaper Srpske Novine ( Serbian News ) . |
| 30 | Well I know the article he wrote for the Society 's Quarterly . |