Example sentences of "who was [verb] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It includes Eddie Browning , who was jailed for the murder of Marie Wilkes , and Michael Shirley who 's on hunger strike protesting his innocence … |
| 2 | The court had heard that Chalmers , who was training for the ministry with the Rev Ian Paisley 's Free Presbyterian Church of Ulster , had lured the boy into a church in South Belfast and abused him . |
| 3 | A verdict was given against a Liverpool Constable by a jury … in a case in which Mrs Jane Roche , wife of a bookmaker , claimed damages from Sergt. John Borrows ( who was dismissed for the malicious prosecution claim ) and Constable Ernest David Laurie of the Liverpool Police … |
| 4 | Menachem Begin the leader of Irgun , who was wanted for the murders of sergeants Martin and Paice ( see Daily Express ) went on in time to become the Prime Minister of the Zionist State of Israel . |
| 5 | Susanne Albrecht , who was wanted for the 1977 murder of the banker Jürgen Ponto , and Inge Viett , wanted for the 1974 murder of the judge Günter von Drenkmann , were arrested on June 6 in East Berlin , and on June 14 Werner Lotze , Monika Helbing , Ekkehard von Seckendorff-Gudent and Christine Dümlein ( all wanted in connection with other attacks ) were also held , as was Sigrid Sternebeck on June 15 . |
| 6 | We were in Verbier in March 1990 with our two sons aged 9 and 11 , both good skiers , and a daughter of 4 who was skiing for the first time . |
| 7 | At that time , Russell Mills , an artist who was looking for a dwelling that would be large enough also to provide studio space , realised that the building might subdivide suitably to meet , at low cost , the similar needs of fellow artists and designers . |
| 8 | But I bumped into Chris who 'd been doing some session work with Steve ( Buzzcocks ) Diggle , who was looking for a guitar player to do a few gigs , and Chris kind of trapped me into that . |
| 9 | She seemed most impressed , and said that I should meet her boyfriend who was looking for a bass player , and so I joined his jazz-rock band back in 1973 and we did some touring in Britain . |
| 10 | She would have no trouble in finding a tenant for the cottage ; already Simon Clifford , a neighbour , had approached her on behalf of an acquaintance of his who was looking for a place in the area . |
| 11 | He went along with a friend who was auditioning for the lead and landed the part himself , playing a thug hanged for murder . |
| 12 | He went along with a friend who was auditioning for the lead and landed the part himself , playing a thug hanged for murder . |
| 13 | Poor Christy , who was hoping for a reconciliation , was left sobbing on her father 's shoulder . |
| 14 | Speed is into strenuous challenges these days — he went head over the top of one of their defenders at one point and ended up in a crumpled heap in front of the ref , who was pointing for a free kick in the opposite direction . |
| 15 | The poet James Fenton , who was stringing for The Washington Post and who must have cut an unlikely figure riding into Saigon on a victorious Viet Cong tank ( described in The Fall of Saigon , first published in Granta 15 and then included in All the Wrong Places ) , wrote a savage review of the book in the New Statesman describing Herr as a ‘ shooter ’ , rather than a reporter for Esquire . |
| 16 | David Bowden of Complins , Holybourne , who was running for the Multiple Sclerosis Society , recorded a rather faster time of two hours 56 minutes — but he was running in his seventh marathon . |
| 17 | No , our Whelan is Noel Whelan , a lad who was playing for the youngsters just last season . |
| 18 | He is accused of wounding David Hallam , 29 , of Stanley Street , Garston , Liverpool , who was playing for the Oxton-based Queens Arms team . |
| 19 | John Newton , 25 , a chemist of New Hey Road , Woodchurch , Birkenhead , has pleaded not guilty to causing grievous bodily harm to David Hallam , 29 , of Stanley Street , Garston , who was playing for the Queens Arms team from Oxton . |
| 20 | If the condition of the rural clergy was as bad as the book claimed , who was to speak for the government in the provinces ? |
| 21 | Geaga stood unsuccessfully on June 8 against the incumbent leader of the Phalangist Party ( also called the Ktaeb ) , George Saadeh , who was returned for a third term as party president . |
| 22 | Sir Patrick Hastings , who was briefed for the defence of Mosley and the others , had little difficulty in demolishing the prosecution case . |
| 23 | Nicholson 's exercises , devised by Strasberg and taught by Landau — who was nominated for an Oscar in the 1990 awards — were rather less shocking . |
| 24 | Mr Lavender , an insurance agent who was studying for a master 's degree , was found slumped on the ground in Battersea High Street , South London , by a group of youngsters . |
| 25 | A university spokesman said last night he could not comment on speculation that Mr Powell , who was studying for a BSc in applied biology , had been anxious about sitting his first year exams . |
| 26 | The following year Graham Greene , having struggled to write a script from Galsworthy 's Twenty-One Days — about a murderer who killed himself and an innocent man who was hanged for the suicide 's crime — within BBFC rules that forbade the representation of either suicide or a failure of British justice , joined with J. B. Priestley , Bernard Shaw and H. G. Wells in speaking out against the censorship system . |
| 27 | SILLARS STALKER * , who was winning for the first time on the Flat when landing an apprentice handicap at Hamilton Park eight days ago , should make a successful return to the Scottish track in today 's Levy Board Handicap ( 5.15 ) . |
| 28 | Arsenal experienced some fierce tackles , but the most crucial came from one of their own men , Tommy Black , who was booked for a foul — in the penalty area . |
| 29 | But Ward was stretchered off with a broken leg after a challenge by Mark Atkins , who was booked for the tackle . |
| 30 | They used a ‘ Whose fault ? ’ technique , in which children were asked who was to blame for an unsuccessful piece of communication — e.g. , where the listener 's choice of referent did not match that of the speaker . |