Example sentences of "he [verb] [verb] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You 've got to be kidding ! ’ yelped Margaret Lenham , as much astonished as afraid at the sight of what he planned to use for the operation : a knitting needle . |
| 2 | Watch him wobble onto the dance floor as he goes looking for a decent record collection ( ie no Alice Cooper or Frank Zappa ) in CodeMasters ' happenin' hit … |
| 3 | The badges of honour he sports on his veteran 's beret when he goes dining for the old soldiers ' vote gave his plea a sort of authority . |
| 4 | ALAIN Prost captured his sixth consecutive pole position of the Formula One season as he led qualifying for the Monaco Grand Prix today . |
| 5 | He failed to allow for the fact that Lucasta Redburn could not bear to throw away anything that might one day come in useful . |
| 6 | yeah , he got charged for the commander |
| 7 | He got paid for the work that erm |
| 8 | He tried to relax for the first time . |
| 9 | He found underpricing for the first third of his data period , and overpricing for the remainder . |
| 10 | He found working for the Maharajah so enjoyable that he refused to accept one penny in payment for his 18 years ' service , although the Maharajah supplied all his material needs . |
| 11 | He was sitting just a matter of inches away , when he moved to reach for a coffee-cup she caught the smell of freshly washed hair , and her fingers itched with the memory of tangling themselves in those jet-black waves . |
| 12 | Cagey hobby : Dr Graham Tydeman inside the Silence of the Lambs-style cage he has constructed for an exhibition |
| 13 | He has argued for the introduction of a convertible currency parallel to the existing non-convertible rouble . |
| 14 | So he goes quietly home , sits and watches the telly with her a while ; then , in the commercial break perhaps , he leans forward , taps her on the head with whatever he has selected for the job , waits a couple of hours , then rings us . ’ |
| 15 | Wright is not that much of a loss — in the games he has played for the national team which i have seen he has not been up to par . |
| 16 | He is nevertheless expected to have an easy win in the Lyons constituency he has represented for the past 13 years . |
| 17 | Every time he has to wait for a question , he claims victory . |
| 18 | But we could n't resist quoting captain Martyn Moxon at length in a piece he has penned for the club . |
| 19 | He has arranged for the agency staff to have lunch with the Managing Director and two experts in pollution control from the parent company who have travelled a considerable distance to attend . |
| 20 | He has called for the removal of all foreign troops and bases in Europe . |
| 21 | He has called for the compulsory registration of all property transactions in an attempt to stop the use of secret deals . |
| 22 | He seeks more time and he has asked for a year or more . |
| 23 | Forest want an answer from Keane by the end of this week and he has asked for an extra couple of days to iron out the finer details . |
| 24 | This year Mansell has finally claimed the championship he has chased for a dozen years . |
| 25 | This year Mansell has finally claimed the championship he has chased for a dozen years . |
| 26 | He has to leave for an important luncheon party in a few minutes . ’ |
| 27 | On the contrary , he has pressed for a centralised federation in which Serbia would presumably play a dominant role . |
| 28 | In a wide ranging and at times overtly anti-communist speech , described by the Guardian of March 30 as " more measured and specific than any he has given for a long time " , Yeltsin pilloried central government policy , labelling perestroika the " last phase of the stagnation period " . |
| 29 | Last I have a very pleasant task to perform , namely to ask Angela to kindly present to His Lordship a token of our loving esteem for all he has done for the Guild over the years and hopefully when he wears the vestment he will say a prayer for us all — AD MULTOS ANNOS . |
| 30 | Finally I for one would nt be too bothered if Howard left.What he has done for the club will always be remembered , but no one man is bigger than the club ( apart from maybe Don ) , and I have it from a very good source that if Howard leaves the club , Leeds will soon run into 15 million quid.Is he worth that much ? |