Example sentences of "he had for [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the following year he won the 100 yards AAA title ; he had for a while reigned as the British number one high jumper . |
| 2 | He felt better than he had for a while , with hard work aching in his bones and the knowledge that he had decided what he must do at last . |
| 3 | I do believe , however , that he proceeded in considerable apprehension in his dealings with the lady ; in fact , that he was plainly frightened of her because of her quick temper and also because he had for a number of reasons formed a most favourable view of her judgement . |
| 4 | To Miss D'Arcy he was Colonel Hope ; to Mary he had for a moment been Augustus ; to his new self , John alone ; with Joanna he had no name and experienced the inscrutable animal comfort of brief blank joy . |
| 5 | Hoving proved his own worst enemy , and eventually his taste for the tinsel and show of the art world overtook whatever feeling he had for the art itself , and he left the museum after his cherished Arts Communication Center ( to be funded by Walter Annenberg , with Hoving as its head ) , a nebulous film-studio-cum-information centre to be built in gallery space reserved for the European decorative arts department , was dissolved after much local criticism . |