Example sentences of "when he [verb] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was barely 20 years old and already working the nightclub circuit when he wed for the first time . |
| 2 | He added that he had been well treated when he returned for the US Open . |
| 3 | He was granted a football scholarship to attend UCLA and after graduating with a degree in Political Science his dream was realized when he signed for the New York Giants , the team he had supported since childhood , as a rookie quarterback . |
| 4 | At an all-time low after the Mandela concert , when he cheered for the benefit of the TV cameras only |
| 5 | Wright pleaded guilty to all charges , and also admitted obtaining £207,000 from the Halifax Building Society by deception when he applied for a mortgage claiming , falsely , that he did not have one . |
| 6 | Everything here fed his masochism — as he had known instinctively that it would when he applied for a similar position in the English coalfields some years before , only to be told that he was not mature enough . |
| 7 | When his court-appointed attorney , Michael Deutsch , filed a discovery motion on 30 August for documents that might show Coleman had been acting under orders when he applied for the Thomas Leavy passport , the DEA , the DIA and the CIA all declined to comply on grounds of national security . |
| 8 | The company said standard vetting procedures were followed , which did not reveal any adverse information about him when he applied for the post . |
| 9 | When he started to dress in front of the fire the two older girls turned away and when he looked for a collar stud the boy ran to attend . |
| 10 | In the 1912–13 season Harry was awarded Representative honours , when he played for the Southern League in all three inter-league fixtures against the Football League , the Scottish League and the League of Ireland . |
| 11 | He had not been at Eton himself but when he played for the masters his volleying in the Field Game — the Eton form of football — was long remembered . |
| 12 | What a shame that Andy Nicol is not a few years younger , for he too showed himself to be of world class in last year 's celebration of New Zealand 's centenary , when he played for the World XV in Christchurch . |
| 13 | On the first day he announced his new sponsorship deal with Everest — a return to the firm who supported him in the 70's when he rode for the Edgar yard . |
| 14 | He was at his most sincere when he argued for the South and defended it ferociously against the feebleness of Yankee and British snobberies and prejudice . |
| 15 | And the gesture is Raskolnikov 's too , for example when he feels for the axe slung inside his overcoat . |
| 16 | Larkin 's humiliating defeat did not prevent his becoming president of the Irish Trades Union Congress , and he had their blessing when he left for the United States in October 1914 , hoping to retrieve his union 's fortunes . |
| 17 | When he went for the audition , playwright Bernard Kops and director David de Keyser had already cast Melvyn Hayes in the lead role and asked the star to read scenes with those trying for the other parts . |
| 18 | In the first week of January 1979 , President Giscard d'Estaing expounded his view when he met for a summit conference with Jimmy Carter , Hemut Schmidt , the West German chancellor , and James Callaghan , the British prime minister , on the French West Indian island of Guadeloupe . |
| 19 | I hope that a message will go out from my hon. and learned Friend the Minister when he replies for the Government . |
| 20 | A CHEF who cancelled the final stage of a £20,000 sex-change operation when he fell for a pretty blonde announced yesterday : ‘ She 's worth every penny . ’ |
| 21 | The crew of the boat on which he was travelling attacked and were about to kill him when he asked for a last favour — to play a tune . |
| 22 | His parents were not surprised when he asked for a lock on his bedroom door before he had reached his teenage years . |
| 23 | That was certainly the impression he gave to Taheb 's gatekeeper , a squat man with one wall-eye , who appraised him pessimistically with the other when he asked for the mistress of the house . |
| 24 | His Principal looked at him suspiciously when he asked for the day off , and he stuttered , ‘ She brought me up , you know . ’ |
| 25 | When he asked for an artificial leg for his newly amputated right leg he was told not only that he could n't have one , but he 'd also have to give up his existing left false leg , which he 'd had for six years . |
| 26 | When he stopped for a moment to wipe the sweat from his brow , Trung laid a cautionary hand on his arm . |
| 27 | But one can sympathise with Mr Justice Henry , the now redundant Guinness judge , when he called for a radical re-appraisal of the way big fraud cases are handled . |
| 28 | were you present when he defined for the benefit of my Lord and the jury , what was meant by management charges in that sentence |
| 29 | but when he pauses for the interpreter 's turn |
| 30 | South African President F W de Klerk ducked out of the row when he arrived for a three-day visit to Britain . |