Example sentences of "he [was/were] [verb] [noun] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was as though he were dictating material for a paper in one of the journals or addressing a class of senior students . |
| 2 | as though he were sorting cards for a seance . |
| 3 | ‘ Father Tom , ’ he said , as if he were meeting Carey for the first time for a long time . |
| 4 | Also in February he was discussing ideas for a Botticelli ballet and for a Debussy ballet ; these eventually coalesced into one idea , Primavera . |
| 5 | Mr Lucas said Michael worked for Bond Corporation for around five years and was trusted so greatly he was given responsibility for the security of international VIPs who visited Western Australia during Bond 's America 's Cup defence three years ago . |
| 6 | For six years or so the CNAA had moved with caution — indeed , only one of its officers , Francis Hanrott , had any previous experience involving contact with teacher education , and he was given responsibility for the various levels of negotiation . |
| 7 | He was charged $65 for a call that never got through , and the Inter- Continental has since confirmed that ‘ for technical reasons , charges for all international calls out of Zaire commence as soon as the line rings , as opposed to when the party telephoned actually picks up the receiver ’ . |
| 8 | He was gathering data for a book about world metro systems , a task on which he had been engaged for years . |
| 9 | In January 1864 he was appointed commissioner for the settlement of boundary disputes between the states of Baroda and Jamnagar . |
| 10 | He had addressed such matters in Edinburgh , St Andrews , and would in Glasgow , with an awareness that he was reporting Scotland for an English audience as he might have reported Bavaria or Sweden . |
| 11 | Christie 's agent was unaware of the race last night but the sprinter announced on Friday he was shelving plans for a £250,000 race against Carl Lewis and — as Super Sport forecast last month — the clash will place next year . |
| 12 | He was collecting notes for a book of random observations , a Thackeray-like Sketchbook , called An American Journey . |
| 13 | He was elected MP for the mining constituencies of West Durham ( 1868–80 ) , East Durham ( 1881–5 ) , and Monmouth ( 1886–92 ) ; his parliamentary work was mostly concerned with matters affecting the coal industry and the City , though he was also an early advocate of ‘ gas and water socialism ’ . |
| 14 | In late 1987 he was elected President for a seven-year term . |
| 15 | Kit had learned how to grow certain lucrative crops on the mainland , when he served with Roger Pole and the local Indians had been drafted to instruct them ; but he was cultivating indigo for the first time , in Sycorax 's former enclave , and he found the plant tricky and demanding and considered its production women 's work . |
| 16 | But in 1984 he suffered further humiliation when he was fined £100 for an act of gross indecency with a lorry driver in a public lavatory in Reading . |
| 17 | But on his last full campaigning day in Monklands East , a depressed part of west central Scotland badly hit by the collapse of traditional industries , he was making time for the locals he has represented — with a boundary change — since 1970 . |
| 18 | He caught Moira when he was signing copies for the children . |