Example sentences of "he [verb] [adj] for [art] " in BNC.
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1 | In 1845 he started a wholesale grocery business in Liverpool , and later a printing business ; hard work and a good business sense allowed him to sell these for a small fortune in 1856 . |
2 | Bede 's methods led him to give 680 for a year he would otherwise have thought of as 679 . |
3 | He became communicative for the first time . |
4 | Mains went along in the provincial games , playing steadily , scoring points ( he became top for the tour with 132 , 53 ahead of Bryan Williams and 77 clear of the third , Sid Going ) . |
5 | ‘ You do n't wash your feet and put them on the dirty floor , do you ? ’ he asked as he got ready for the guests who would soothe the painful passage towards the critics . |
6 | The secretary of state may by regulations make such provision as he thinks fit for the payment of a fee of the prescribed amount to a local planning authority … in respect of an application made to them under the planning enactments for any permission , consent , approval , determination or certificate . |
7 | Category three saw Jasper Sharpe outreach everyone to gain 127 points and he looks favourite for an overall winner ; Gareth Parry came second and Simon Scully was third . |
8 | Burton is your man for he has 500 for every game at the Arms Park and it is official |
9 | Ooh he want , he want that for a test ? |
10 | Why wo n't he do that for the people of Lincolnshire now . |
11 | Dismissing Paisley 's support as ‘ a fascist organization masquerading under the cloak of religion … deluding a lot of sincere people … hell-bent on provoking religious strife in Northern Ireland ’ , he seemed unprepared for the reaction against him within his own party . |
12 | The principle is fixed that a scholar aspiring to high office must first teach at a graded series of medreses , one after the other , and that only when he reaches a certain grade does he become eligible for the great offices of the learned hierarchy , the mevleviyets , which are in their turn graded . |
13 | He wears white for the same reason that he never drinks raksi , and that he 's eaten no food since morning . |
14 | In a book published in 1975 , he praises Montini for the courage he had displayed in supporting him twenty years earlier , but adds this comment : One does not have to accept all of that to recognize that the assessment is shrewd . |
15 | Ideal scanario : He gets banned for the rest of the season . |
16 | He may be right — he seems like a zombie when he 's on them , but then about a month after he stops having the regular injections he gets happier for a while , then gradually all the funny ideas begin again . |
17 | On that form he started favourite for the 1988 Cheltenham Gold Cup but ran a listless race before being pulled up . |
18 | On that form he started favourite for the 1988 Cheltenham Gold Cup but ran a listless race before being pulled up . |
19 | He watched Artai for a reaction . |
20 | Does he appreciate that for every single day that he and his right hon. Friend have been in office in Whitehall place , we have similarly lost 25 farm workers and 14 farmers ? |
21 | Yet sometimes he feels nostalgic for the Californian variety , just as an honest man dining in the Tour d'Argent can decently long for a cheeseburger . |
22 | Then the smell of warm grass came to join that of the roses and gunpowder and he fell asleep for a few moments , dreaming of cricket fields and meadows . |
23 | He fell asleep for a few hours just before dawn and woke cold and cramped , his head on the small desk , his body somehow wedged on the stool . |
24 | Then he fell silent for a little while , as if in meditation . |
25 | He fell silent for a while and then answered me apologetically — in English . |
26 | He fell silent for a few moments , shredding the paper that had wrapped his sugar cube . |
27 | Once , hearing an unaccountable noise in front of him , which ceased on the instant , he kept still for a long time ; and when at last he moved cautiously forward , found Silver crouching behind a tussock of cock's-foot for fear of the sound of his own approach . |
28 | ‘ He kept quiet for a long time working out how long soap could keep for , then he just said , ‘ Well , we 'll have to sell the things . ’ |
29 | He felt sorry for the old man . |
30 | He felt sorry for the husband . |