Example sentences of "he [vb past] [adv] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This hooking action is important because it interferes with the opponent 's attempts to free his arm and keeps him closed off for a longer period . |
| 2 | When he came back from Livorno in the late summer of 1913 he made straight for the Café Rotonde , to be greeted rapturously by artists and models on the terrace . |
| 3 | He made straight for the big warhorse , mounted , said something to Will , and started along the street . |
| 4 | Noguchi tried in vain to construct an earthwork sculpture at a Japanese-American internment camp where he lived voluntarily for a time during World War II . |
| 5 | Collecting her ticket , she came up behind him again as he checked in for the flight . |
| 6 | He plunged down for an interminable second , arms and legs splayed out in abandon , forgotten , tumbling anyhow , and crashed onto the stage on his back , lying across Bothwell , whose cloak was the colour of blood . |
| 7 | Stage shows made Leonard Bernstein a very rich man , but he said he cared little for the money , his great love was for the music . |
| 8 | Friends say he cared deeply for the countryside and worked tirelessly to improve the public rights of way network through his job as footpath officer for the Richmondshire group of the ramblers ' association , which he helped to start . |
| 9 | He argued instead for the establishment of a small number of what he termed ‘ freeports ’ , within which unregulated free enterprise would be encouraged . |
| 10 | In this he argued powerfully for a revival of social citizenship and the ‘ developmental state ’ . |
| 11 | He fought again for the count of Aumale in his rebellion at the end of 1220 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | When he asked once for a volunteer bugler , a particularly blackguardly fellow stepped forward . |
| 14 | He gazed calmly for a few seconds before he lifted his hand in greeting . |
| 15 | Grant 's mind was in a whirl as he sought desperately for a way out . |
| 16 | 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 . ’ |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Finding himself with nine months to kill between school and university he cast round for a job . |
| 19 | Blanche 's question woke Dexter from his reverie and he cast around for a photograph of Nicola in the room . |
| 20 | He cast around for a chair , shoved some papers aside with a foot and perched on the edge of an armchair . |
| 21 | Smiling awkwardly , he cast around for a topic of conversation that was n't personal and had difficulty in finding one . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | ’ The child was still crying as Alan sat down with him , but he grasped greedily for the milk . |
| 24 | He wandered around for a while and ran into a few of the household busy with their duties . |
| 25 | He wandered around for a couple of hours having chats with any of the old fellows who were around the place . ’ |
| 26 | When the Frenchman saw what was happening , he shouted angrily for the senator to stop . |
| 27 | He played mostly for the reserves , he was paid cash , it was said , while drawing the dole . |
| 28 | He played twice for the Republic of Ireland in 88–89 . |
| 29 | If anyone have seen pictures from our game against Poland he came on as a substitute for Fjortoft as lone attacker — and he played brilliantly for the 20 minutes he was on . |
| 30 | Strachan was inspirational , and his goal was the highlight of the match — running at the defence , he twisted through for a fine shot about fifteen yards out . |