Example sentences of "he [verb] [adj] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He became communicative for the first time . |
| 2 | Mains went along in the provincial games , playing steadily , scoring points ( he became top for the tour with 132 , 53 ahead of Bryan Williams and 77 clear of the third , Sid Going ) . |
| 3 | ‘ You do n't wash your feet and put them on the dirty floor , do you ? ’ he asked as he got ready for the guests who would soothe the painful passage towards the critics . |
| 4 | The secretary of state may by regulations make such provision as he thinks fit for the payment of a fee of the prescribed amount to a local planning authority … in respect of an application made to them under the planning enactments for any permission , consent , approval , determination or certificate . |
| 5 | Category three saw Jasper Sharpe outreach everyone to gain 127 points and he looks favourite for an overall winner ; Gareth Parry came second and Simon Scully was third . |
| 6 | Dismissing Paisley 's support as ‘ a fascist organization masquerading under the cloak of religion … deluding a lot of sincere people … hell-bent on provoking religious strife in Northern Ireland ’ , he seemed unprepared for the reaction against him within his own party . |
| 7 | The principle is fixed that a scholar aspiring to high office must first teach at a graded series of medreses , one after the other , and that only when he reaches a certain grade does he become eligible for the great offices of the learned hierarchy , the mevleviyets , which are in their turn graded . |
| 8 | He wears white for the same reason that he never drinks raksi , and that he 's eaten no food since morning . |
| 9 | In a book published in 1975 , he praises Montini for the courage he had displayed in supporting him twenty years earlier , but adds this comment : One does not have to accept all of that to recognize that the assessment is shrewd . |
| 10 | Ideal scanario : He gets banned for the rest of the season . |
| 11 | On that form he started favourite for the 1988 Cheltenham Gold Cup but ran a listless race before being pulled up . |
| 12 | On that form he started favourite for the 1988 Cheltenham Gold Cup but ran a listless race before being pulled up . |
| 13 | He watched Artai for a reaction . |
| 14 | Yet sometimes he feels nostalgic for the Californian variety , just as an honest man dining in the Tour d'Argent can decently long for a cheeseburger . |
| 15 | Then the smell of warm grass came to join that of the roses and gunpowder and he fell asleep for a few moments , dreaming of cricket fields and meadows . |
| 16 | He fell asleep for a few hours just before dawn and woke cold and cramped , his head on the small desk , his body somehow wedged on the stool . |
| 17 | Then he fell silent for a little while , as if in meditation . |
| 18 | He fell silent for a while and then answered me apologetically — in English . |
| 19 | He fell silent for a few moments , shredding the paper that had wrapped his sugar cube . |
| 20 | Once , hearing an unaccountable noise in front of him , which ceased on the instant , he kept still for a long time ; and when at last he moved cautiously forward , found Silver crouching behind a tussock of cock's-foot for fear of the sound of his own approach . |
| 21 | ‘ He kept quiet for a long time working out how long soap could keep for , then he just said , ‘ Well , we 'll have to sell the things . ’ |
| 22 | He felt sorry for the old man . |
| 23 | He felt sorry for the husband . |
| 24 | Asked if he felt sorry for the fans back home , Sir Bert said , ‘ I feel more sorry for myself . |
| 25 | DARLINGTON chairman Dick Corden admitted he felt sorry for the fans after the disastrous 3–0 defeat at Torquay on Saturday . |
| 26 | Honour admitted he felt sorry for the £50,000 striker . |
| 27 | Willie suddenly became aware of how pale Tom looked and he felt alarmed for a moment . |
| 28 | He felt uneasy for the first time ever , a prickling at the back of his neck , a sense of personal danger . |
| 29 | Masklin thought he felt heavy for a moment , but then the sensation passed . |
| 30 | He was glad that Phillis was gone , in the room , for , after the violence of his shit , he felt fit for no argument , hard words . |