Example sentences of "he [verb] [adv] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The next morning he goes out for a walk round the town . |
| 32 | GARY ARMSTRONG will take another giant step towards reviving his Scotland career when he lines up for the Barbarians at Leicester on December 28 . |
| 33 | But he lines up for the Welsh All-Blacks today , hoping to take another step towards erasing the memory . |
| 34 | Oh , shut up Ryan , and then he sits there for a bit , and she goes , yeah well , you used to wear national health spectacles . |
| 35 | He argued instead for the establishment of a small number of what he termed ‘ freeports ’ , within which unregulated free enterprise would be encouraged . |
| 36 | In this he argued powerfully for a revival of social citizenship and the ‘ developmental state ’ . |
| 37 | He fought again for the count of Aumale in his rebellion at the end of 1220 . |
| 38 | He applied unsuccessfully for the chair of technology at Edinburgh , and in 1862 was appointed keeper of minerals to the Royal Dublin Society , His meteorological output was confined to the translation of Dove 's book but in 1866 he was approached by his intimate friend ( Sir ) Edward Sabine [ q.v. ] , then at the height of his influence as president of the Royal Society and prospective chairman of the new meteorological committee , and was offered the directorship of the Meteorological Office . |
| 39 | When he asked once for a volunteer bugler , a particularly blackguardly fellow stepped forward . |
| 40 | He gazed calmly for a few seconds before he lifted his hand in greeting . |
| 41 | Grant 's mind was in a whirl as he sought desperately for a way out . |
| 42 | So neither one has a right to a decision in his or her favour , and the judge must decide the case according to whichever rule he thinks best for the future , all things considered . |
| 43 | He looks around for a moment , pleased as punch , then realizes that his fellow group members have all heard it a dozen times before . |
| 44 | All Cantona would say as he headed off for a quick trip to Paris before preparing for Sunday 's derby clash was : ‘ I enjoyed my debut . ’ |
| 45 | Outdoors , he continued to carry the picture while walking bipedally , and he headed directly for the gorilla quarters which were located near the adult-ape house on a hill behind the language lab . |
| 46 | He lives only for the moment , and he is already a changed man . |
| 47 | They usually give him a 20 pence piece and he heads straight for the bar to buy his favourite ready-salted snack . |
| 48 | long time see , see such an impression of dodgy back acting , poor old William Roche who plays Ken Barlow in Coronation Street has been moaning and groaning and wincing and rising in the most frightful and indeed the most convincing of manners , he has even for the match of the |
| 49 | I know that my father did use it for a while , lighting the stove with it , but he has n't for a while . |
| 50 | Finding himself with nine months to kill between school and university he cast round for a job . |
| 51 | Blanche 's question woke Dexter from his reverie and he cast around for a photograph of Nicola in the room . |
| 52 | He cast around for a chair , shoved some papers aside with a foot and perched on the edge of an armchair . |
| 53 | Smiling awkwardly , he cast around for a topic of conversation that was n't personal and had difficulty in finding one . |
| 54 | Ockleton described a sweeping circuit of the room , missing all the many obstacles in his path without apparently noticing them , and finished by the window , where he peered out for a full minute or so at the view it commanded of a blank gable-end and half the dome of the Radcliffe Camera . |
| 55 | ’ The child was still crying as Alan sat down with him , but he grasped greedily for the milk . |
| 56 | He wandered around for a while and ran into a few of the household busy with their duties . |
| 57 | He wandered around for a couple of hours having chats with any of the old fellows who were around the place . ’ |
| 58 | He cares neither for the broad sweep of grand strategy nor for the narrow focus of specific campaigns , so he ignores both government archives and the memoirs of the great and the good . |
| 59 | It is unknown to find any subject of Her Majesty who does not say , when asked , that he cares passionately for the Health Service , and believes that more money should be spent on it . |
| 60 | In fact , ultimately ( as " the most honest theoretical man " , Lessing , perceived ) he cares more for the search after truth than for truth itself . |