Example sentences of "he [was/were] [verb] [adv prt] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I followed him out of the City until I was convinced he was packing up for the day . |
| 2 | Evans said they should get Jack Nicholson for the role and he was invited in for a try-out . |
| 3 | He was turned down for an insurance policy on the grounds that he was too old . |
| 4 | In the 10th round , he was ruled out for a foul , and lost his world championship . |
| 5 | Up for re-election in 1952 , he was looking around for a cause that would be electorally popular , and found it in anti-communism . |
| 6 | At the door which led back on to the landing he was looking around for a prop or a wedge to pin it open when he thought of the parcel that he 'd been hugging since the zoo . |
| 7 | It came as no surprise when he was sent off for a vicious headbutt to the hapless Hudd . |
| 8 | In a game against Aberdeen , he was sent off for the 13th time in his career for fouling John McMaster , and the Pittodrie player was taken to hospital with neck injuries . |
| 9 | When Bud moved south to West Bromwich Albion in 1976 , he found himself in a deep trouble after a game against Brighton , when he was sent off for the unpardonable offence of kicking a referee . |
| 10 | He expected to be there for only three or four days , but he was kept in for a fortnight . |
| 11 | The Shah said that he was staying on for a while , not flying immediately either to the States back to Egypt . |
| 12 | They had fetched him for Christmas and he was staying on for the New Year . |
| 13 | But , although winning a famous victory over ( Sir ) Winston Churchill to become Labour MP for Dundee in November 1922 , he was passed over for the foreign secretaryship of the first Labour government fourteen months later . |
| 14 | Although Clinton 's campaign chairman , Mickey Kantor , was among the transition team , he was passed over for the leadership after negative press reports and reservations from within the Clinton camp concerning his style and his role as a prominent lobbyist . |
| 15 | I recall my own final visit to the farm where he was allowed down for an hour and where the flame was rekindled for that period sufficiently for us to forget his illness and think only that the old Nye had been restored . |
| 16 | He was closing in for the kill . |
| 17 | He was taken in for a moment , and believed her . |
| 18 | He was knocked out for a time . |
| 19 | Afraid she might doze off if she gave in to temptation and lay down on the bed , she sat down instead on the room 's only chair , and picked up a book , absorbing not a single word as she waited for the sounds that would mean he was turning in for the night . |
| 20 | Thinking how quiet she 'd gone when he said he was coming up for the funeral and how she 'd seemed to withdraw into herself . |
| 21 | He then called his father , now living in retirement at Lake Martin , and got the name of a former Libyan engineering colleague , whom Coleman immediately telexed , saying he was coming out for a visit . |
| 22 | And he was moving in my direction , although I did n't know he was coming in for a photograph . |
| 23 | He was let out for a walk in the grounds of the medium-security Runwell hospital , near Wickford , Essex . |
| 24 | Actually , before he moved away , he , he gave up his designing job and he was working in for a bit . |
| 25 | He went back into the flat , grabbed his coat , told an astonished Frau Nordern that he was going out for a moment and , without waiting for any protests , dashed out and joined Bodo at the foot of the stairs . |
| 26 | During the previous weeks there had been fine weather , and after a day in the office Paul would keep his mother company in the evenings for a little while , then , as they had nothing to say to one another , he would tell her he was going out for a breath of air . |
| 27 | He said he was going in for the Spot the Talent competition at the Easter Fete . |
| 28 | Between Czecho and Hungary , he decided he was going off for a couple of days . |