Example sentences of "he [vb past] [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 | ALAIN Prost captured his sixth consecutive pole position of the Formula One season as he led qualifying for the Monaco Grand Prix today . |
| 3 | He failed to allow for the fact that Lucasta Redburn could not bear to throw away anything that might one day come in useful . |
| 4 | yeah , he got charged for the commander |
| 5 | He got paid for the work that erm |
| 6 | He tried to relax for the first time . |
| 7 | He found underpricing for the first third of his data period , and overpricing for the remainder . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | At a corner he stopped to wait for a break in the traffic . |
| 11 | He stopped speaking for a moment , like a man walking who comes to a brink ; perhaps it was an artful pause , but it made the stars , the night , seem to wait , as if story , narration , history , lay imbricated in the nature of things ; and the cosmos was for the story , not the story for the cosmos . |
| 12 | William Joyce did the same , without such assistance , and entered his name for Battersea Polytechnic , where he proposed to study for the intermediate examination of the London University BSc degree . |
| 13 | Even his genetic code was noted , from when he 'd applied for a work permit , but no matter how subtly Reynard interrogated , no matter how bright his ideas of lateral interrogation , every time he drew blank . |
| 14 | After that , he 'd headed for a street in north-west London that he had n't visited in over a year . |
| 15 | It was a request from a colleague : he 'd be grateful if she could cast her eye over an article he 'd written for a quarterly journal , by Friday if possible . |
| 16 | ‘ That he 'd arranged for the bank to cash cheques on his and my signature until all this is settled . ’ |
| 17 | Well he told me he 'd gone for a count |
| 18 | He said he 'd gone for a count for a job |
| 19 | And although her slenderness gave her an air of fragility , Guy had felt the gentle curves of her body when he 'd searched for a concealed weapon . |
| 20 | He reached for one of the sticks he 'd collected for the pheasant trap . |
| 21 | The act he 'd devised for the Easter Fete was a black mass . |
| 22 | He fell asleep , but hours later he woke up and felt again — as he 'd felt for a moment in the hall when he 'd arrived — that he should n't be in this house . |
| 23 | He 'd thought for a moment that the fates had it in for him . |
| 24 | Gorelli , he 'd won for a while , but now he was losing , and he was losing big . |
| 25 | He 'd trusted for the last time . |
| 26 | So I called back again and the number was engaged , so I called back again and got through and he 'd left for the day |
| 27 | Was he going to give her some note on performance , some idea he 'd had for a new bit of business in the play ? |
| 28 | It was as if , having goaded her to the point of total capitulation , he 'd opted for a wary cooling-off period . |
| 29 | Both highly desirable , the one on the left especially ; both looked as if they would n't get on their backs for anything less than Edouard de Chavigny himself ; both had the kind of accent that made his toes curl , and made him wish he 'd opted for the more costly tailor . |
| 30 | Mike Towers , with a background of newspaper journalism — he 'd worked for the Evening World in Bristol — assumed control of " Here Today " and he went for a harder , more newsy approach . |