Example sentences of "what he [vb past] for [art] " in BNC.
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1 | But love was what he felt for the stranger who 'd thrust herself upon him . |
2 | Gabriel sold all his farm tools to pay what he owed for the sheep . |
3 | When he spoke to her she could scarcely hear what he said for the thudding of her lovesick heart and the chattering of her teeth . |
4 | But she had n't been able to hear what he said for the roaring in her ears . |
5 | Thus when Clarkson spoke movingly to the gathered World Convention of 1840 he was intended to symbolise continuity and provide in what he stood for a unifying focus . |
6 | That was what he did for a living and it stayed with him all his life . |
7 | Ask a dozen American curators about Earl A. Powell III , the new Director of the National Gallery , Washington , and you get more or less the same general response : ‘ If you were having lunch with Rusty ( his nickname that everyone uses ) and did n't know what he did for a living , you would think he was either an Assistant Secretary of the Navy , a General Manager of General Motors , or a football coach . |
8 | Preston , in the idle early hours when he was n't watching fifties horror movies , sometimes speculated on what kind of person he was and what he did for a living . |
9 | He looked elegantly at home , quite above this sort of thing , and she could n't help wondering who he actually was and what he did for a living . |
10 | It drew to an end in April 1964 with Mr Mandela 's four-hour speech from the dock , in which he defended the formation of Umkhonto we Sizwe and said he had done what he did for the ideal of a free and democratic society , ‘ an ideal for which I am prepared to die ’ . |
11 | And those who worked with him on ecumenical committees knew that this was nothing like so rigid an Anglo-Catholic as sometimes he was portrayed ; and remembered what he did for the Methodists and other non-Anglicans in Durham . |
12 | Does my right hon. Friend accept that there is much to be commended in general in his decision to reduce the infantry battalions by only 12 , 13 or 14 per cent. , which is a great deal better than what he did for the Regular Army ? |
13 | In 1974 , he decided that none of the developmental systems being studied really gave him what he needed for a study of development . |