Example sentences of "[subord] he [verb] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A member of the Eugenics Education Society , the Clerical and Medical Committee of the BMA — where he campaigned for a stronger moral lead from the profession — and the National Council for Combating Venereal Disease , he moved freely between religious , political and scientific spheres . |
| 2 | He did no wilful damage but regarded himself as entitled to go where he wished for the purpose in his mind without regard to the rights of ownership and the alleged presence of man traps and spring guns . |
| 3 | He was rushed to the intensive care unit at Liverpool 's Alder Hey Hospital where he stayed for a week before being transferred to a rehabilitation ward . |
| 4 | Mr Bolona is equally welcome in financial circles in North America , where he worked for a time as a consultant on Latin American debt . |
| 5 | In 1837 he was apprenticed to his uncle James S. Stirling at Dundee foundry , where he worked for the next six years and where some locomotives were built for the Arbroath and Forfar Railway which influenced his own later designs . |
| 6 | In business for himself , first near St Paul 's , but by 1812 firmly established at the Royal Exchange in Cornhill ( where he remained for the rest of his career , apart from an enforced absence during the rebuilding of 1838–44 ) , Wilson became the determined champion of a free press — ‘ It is like the air we breathe ; if we have it not , we die . ’ |
| 7 | Although he qualified for a few regional events , in fact he was aiming much higher : he wanted a crack at the Open Championship . |
| 8 | It was fortunate that he was able to swim , although he wondered for a moment about the presence of large predators in the water . |
| 9 | Holland declined to stand for Norfolk in 1679 , although he voted for the exclusionists , and stood unsuccessfully in 1685 as a trimmer . |
| 10 | He felt better than he had for a while , with hard work aching in his bones and the knowledge that he had decided what he must do at last . |
| 11 | He felt happier than he had for a long time . |
| 12 | Robyn found herself saying , ‘ So he went for a drive to let off some steam and that was the last … ’ |
| 13 | Newcastle clearly had n't heard of Sunderland , so he asked for the Wearside number . |
| 14 | The offer coincided with a move to separate the Cheltenham Schools of Architecture and Art , with which he disagreed , so he applied for the post and succeeded despite his now apparent and debilitating illness . |
| 15 | Miss Polly had a dolly who was sick , sick , so he phoned for the doctor , quick , quick , quick you sing it |
| 16 | Miss Polly had a dolly who was sick , so he phoned for the doctor be quick , quick |
| 17 | Miss Polly had a dolly who was sick , sick so he phoned for the doctor to be quick , quick , he phoned for the doctor to be quick |
| 18 | Miss Polly had a dolly who was sick , sick , sick so he phoned for the doctor to be quick , quick , quick |
| 19 | I wan na do all of them on me own so he phoned for the doctor to be quick , quick , quick , said Miss Polly put her straight to bed he wrote on a paper for a pill , pill , pill |
| 20 | He knew we could n't abide his ways , and he was sure one of us was going to take a hack at him , so he begged for the honour of being killed by the enemy instead . ’ |
| 21 | Ludovico called exuberantly for champagne but it was unobtainable , so he settled for a sweet fizzy wine instead . |
| 22 | Well yeah I guess I did he gets confidence and he walks up with this he 's getting cockier by the minute and he 's well proud and he 's got he sees this , his in this bar trying to chat up this woman , he says I need a , I need a did n't he say I need a smoke or something , so he looks for a woman |
| 23 | Annette spent the intervening time with her son who had been made as comfortable as possible and she told him that she would stay with him until he went for the operation and would then go home but would return first thing in the morning . |
| 24 | Perhaps if he listened for a bit and then jeered , he would at least be able to jeer from a better-informed position . |
| 25 | I do n't mind if he reads for a few minutes but that 's it . |
| 26 | The Chancellor was thus in a much stronger position than under Weimar , and , additionally , he could request an early election if he asked for a vote of confidence and this was rejected by the Bundestag . |
| 27 | If he asked him to pass the screwdriver he passed the hammer and if he asked for the hammer , he passed the nearest broomhandle , which was usually in another room altogether . |
| 28 | Toby was a well-known golf writer , even if he wrote for a newspaper that was rarely , if ever , seen in the boardrooms of Britain . |
| 29 | But if he springs for the Savoy , he 's going to want to try out the stuff he saw in Swedish Au Pairs Get Raunchy . ’ |
| 30 | Stewart told us that Whaddon 's offer of a free bus pass and as many pizza slices as he could eat if he signed for the club was ‘ frankly , insulting ’ . |