Example sentences of "and he [vb past] for [art] " 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 | Mike Towers , with a background of newspaper journalism — he 'd worked for the Evening World in Bristol — assumed control of " Here Today " and he went for a harder , more newsy approach . |
7 | A real wanderer , and he looked for a sign of her inheritance in himself . |
8 | 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 . |
9 | His confidence grew and he applied for a job at the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre at Stratford upon Avon . |
10 | And he pleaded for a firmer approach from tonight 's referee , Denmark 's Kim Milton Nielsen . |
11 | And he pleaded for the public to write to Premier John Major to protest at the move . |
12 | A snow-covered hedge loomed up ahead of him and he made for the shelter of it . |
13 | Inevitably , he came under the scrutiny of the bigger clubs and Spurs and Brentford made offers , but he eventually moved rather suddenly in October 1935 to Norwich City , when the Canaries paid their record fee to obtain his services , and he played for the Carrow Road club until the war . |
14 | 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 . |
15 | He had known it would not satisfy them , and he waited for the rumbles to grow before he said : ‘ Very well . |
16 | He said it was the government 's intention to privatize 30-40 per cent of state assets and he asked for a six-month moratorium on trade union pay demands . |
17 | His wages in 1780 were 20 shillings ( £1 ) a week and he asked for an increase to 2 guineas ( £2.10 ) a week . |
18 | 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 . |
19 | And he paused for a moment before adding wistfully , ‘ more 's the pity . ’ |
20 | Panels lit up and he reached for a number of X-ray plates which he attached to the luminescent plastic . |
21 | His food came — they do n't mess about here and he reached for the salt . |
22 | But when he tried to stand a cry of pain escaped him and he reached for the wall of the stables for support . |
23 | Ill health dogged his period at St Mary 's , and he returned for a further period of treatment while he was the curate , and in September 1962 he came to Coniston as the Parish priest and significantly , no further setbacks were experienced to his health while he was living in proximity to Coniston Old Man and during the period he was Parish Priest . |
24 | That left just one door , and he hesitated for a moment before opening it . |
25 | 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 . |
26 | And he sat for a long time in a melancholy reverie as the ants continued to drift down , thinking of the futility of all endeavour . |
27 | The crowd opened up and he headed for the gate . |
28 | 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 . |
29 | 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 . |
30 | According to C.-in-C. of CIS Armed Forces Marshal Yevgeny Shaposhnikov , it now remained for Ukraine to recognize Russia 's jurisdiction over nuclear weapons located on its territory , and he called for a Russian-Ukrainian summit to discuss the issue . |