Example sentences of "he [verb] [adv] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | He made straight for the big warhorse , mounted , said something to Will , and started along the street . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Collecting her ticket , she came up behind him again as he checked in for the flight . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | He skips over for the bloody |
| 7 | And he waxes portentously for a moment . |
| 8 | He has received a card with drawings of gangsters on it and threats of a ‘ warm welcome ’ if he turns up for the second-round tie . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | He goes in for a sort of hall-of-mirrors self-impersonation , telling people how he would have done the murder if he had done it ( which he has ) . |
| 12 | The next morning he goes out for a walk round the town . |
| 13 | GARY ARMSTRONG will take another giant step towards reviving his Scotland career when he lines up for the Barbarians at Leicester on December 28 . |
| 14 | But he lines up for the Welsh All-Blacks today , hoping to take another step towards erasing the memory . |
| 15 | Oh , shut up Ryan , and then he sits there for a bit , and she goes , yeah well , you used to wear national health spectacles . |
| 16 | He argued instead for the establishment of a small number of what he termed ‘ freeports ’ , within which unregulated free enterprise would be encouraged . |
| 17 | In this he argued powerfully for a revival of social citizenship and the ‘ developmental state ’ . |
| 18 | He fought again for the count of Aumale in his rebellion at the end of 1220 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | When he asked once for a volunteer bugler , a particularly blackguardly fellow stepped forward . |
| 21 | He gazed calmly for a few seconds before he lifted his hand in greeting . |
| 22 | Grant 's mind was in a whirl as he sought desperately for a way out . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | He looks around for a moment , pleased as punch , then realizes that his fellow group members have all heard it a dozen times before . |
| 25 | 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 . ’ |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | He lives only for the moment , and he is already a changed man . |
| 28 | They usually give him a 20 pence piece and he heads straight for the bar to buy his favourite ready-salted snack . |
| 29 | 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 |
| 30 | I know that my father did use it for a while , lighting the stove with it , but he has n't for a while . |