Example sentences of "[verb] he [verb] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I want him to shoot for every flag . |
| 2 | One day she rashly invited him to stay for a weekend . |
| 3 | Friends invited him to apply for the Readership in Geometry at Gresham 's College , and a wealthy London merchant offered him £10,000 to take his daughter in marriage . |
| 4 | She asks him to recognize his father 's wisdom in trying to encourage him to work for a steady position and shares his anxiety about delays with Blackwoods , over the publication of The Woodland Life . |
| 5 | He had to report to the headmaster at four o'clock , and was taken there by force by Foggerty who caught him racing for the school gates when the bell went . |
| 6 | The ‘ plot ’ has him searching for the lost chord , which is about as banal as you can get , but the contributors look interesting George Harrison , Charlie Rich , Betty Wright , John Sebastian , Rufus Thomas and Billy Swan are among them . |
| 7 | The boy lives with his aunt but his mother , who is estranged from Luke 's father , often has him to stay for a couple of days . |
| 8 | Isay helped him dress for the banquet that evening , showing no resentment at having to double as valet as well as bodyguard . |
| 9 | ‘ I expect he went for a walk after . |
| 10 | Has he gone for a fortnight or a week ? |
| 11 | Has he applied for the same thing ? |
| 12 | Next morning the humour in this wore decidedly thin , as Marshall in particular sent down bouncer after bouncer , unchecked by umpire Constant and apparently unconcerned at the damage he might do — such as badly bruising Fowler 's arm and causing him to retire for a while . |
| 13 | The Prince 's vanity had made him dress for a winter 's campaign on what threatened to be the summer 's hottest day yet . |
| 14 | The Executive Council under Sir Paw Tun were inert and helpless , and later that morning I went to the Governor to say that I did not think we could hold the situation any longer without grave risk , and advised him to call for the resignation of the Executive Council . |
| 15 | Harry signed for Palace after Manager Edmund Goodman had seen him play for the amateur side , Kingstonian , in a Surrey Charity Shield Final at The Nest early in the summer of 1921 , when Palace had just won promotion to Division 2 . |
| 16 | I let him cry for a bit and then went over to him and squatted down beside him and put my hand over his shoulders . |
| 17 | This did not prevent him paying for the installation of a swimming pool to amuse his children who roamed around their new domain during the holidays . |
| 18 | Justin says he ran for the first bit and now has a big blister |
| 19 | Mike Burton says he came for a trial touched the ball 3 times and scored 3 tries . |
| 20 | To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what plans he has for the Royal Naval Reserve ; and if he will make a statement . |
| 21 | Will the Minister assure the House that , whatever privatisation plans he has for the trust ports , there will be no recognition of those people who seem to have an interest in cashing in on the endeavours for their own ends ? |
| 22 | To ask the Prime Minister what plans he has for the future of the May day bank holiday . |
| 23 | To ask the Minister for the Arts what plans he has for the European arts festival ; and if he will make a statement . |
| 24 | To ask the Minister for the Arts , what plans he has for the European arts festival ; — |
| 25 | And as Mark Paul , 20 , was led sobbing to the cells , his victim 's mother said bitterly : ‘ I hope he weeps for the rest of his life . ’ |
| 26 | With powerful leg strokes he made for the assault boat from which new flares were being fired . |
| 27 | The master , A. D. Lindsay ( later first Baron Lindsay of Birker , q.v. ) , encouraged him to work for a spell ( 1927–8 ) at a Quaker settlement for the unemployed in the Rhondda Valley — an experience which made a deep impression . |
| 28 | The society claims that there are ‘ cosmic masters ’ in the universe and that they have come ‘ to give priceless teachings to man to help him prepare for the New World and to bring a great millennium of peace ’ . |
| 29 | A laborious internal review of the Long-Term Costing is undertaken to whittle down the gap , and to highlight vulnerable programmes so that the Secretary of State can be given the strongest possible brief to help him fight for a higher allocation of resources ; and conversely to enable him to fend off attacks by other high-spending ministers , who are intent on grabbing a larger share for themselves , often at the expense of Defence . |
| 30 | one man who 's already in the money … thankfully … is Olympic rower Steve Redgrave from Buckinghamshire … he 's got a forty thousand pounds sponsorship deal with the Port of London to help him train for the next Olympics … solid gold … |