Example sentences of "he [verb] for [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | plays on , he plays for the first team normally I think . |
| 2 | Yohan , an old man , was moved to tears as he read a tract , as he realised for the first time how much God loved him . |
| 3 | ‘ So you will not consider me , after all our friendship ? ’ he asked , and Emily moved restlessly ; he realised for the first time that all her movements were studied . |
| 4 | He applied for the first chair and then thought better of it and withdrew the application ; refused to apply for the second despite the supplications of Cambridge friends ; and finally applied for the third , the chair of primacy , the regius chair made vacant by the retirement of Charles Raven . |
| 5 | The crew of the boat on which he was travelling attacked and were about to kill him when he asked for a last favour — to play a tune . |
| 6 | ‘ Now , you 're sure you feel well enough to make a statement ? ’ he asked for the second or third time . |
| 7 | ‘ It is coming ? ’ he asked for the fifth time since they had broken away from the Baglietto . |
| 8 | ‘ What exactly did he take ? ’ he asked for the fourth time . |
| 9 | Though he admitted for the first time he was the author of his own downfall , he spent much of his speech attacking the press . |
| 10 | In doing so , however , he admitted for the first time that he had made " every effort " to obtain the release of the hostages . |
| 11 | He headed for the Seventh Day Adventist College , New Bold in Berkshire . |
| 12 | Meanwhile , former Tottenham player Gary Lineker 's Japanese adventure got underway when he trained for the first time with his Grampus Eight teammates at Nagoya yesterday . |
| 13 | It seems to have been about then that he mentioned for the first time that he thought he was being poisoned with acqua toffana ( a notorious Italian poison ) . |
| 14 | But we do have to do everything he wants for the next month or so . ’ |
| 15 | He says for the first time in his life , he 's known what life must have been like for the old masters . |
| 16 | Then , during his three years in exile he came for the first time into close contact with the main exponents of the Gregorian ideal , and we must ask how far and in what circumstances he adopted the phraseology of the Gregorian reformers ; then , whether he adopted the theoretical structure which their favourite phrase libertas ecclesiae expressed , or adopted the phrase for use only in exceptional circumstances and for special reasons . |
| 17 | There were things he consciously noticed about people which he brought to mind long after he had ceased to watch them , but now he noted for the first time that she had very small feet — they could have belonged to the oriental he had imagined her to be through the sun haze . |
| 18 | It was in that terrible moment of loss that he noticed for the first time the eagle in the cage on the other side of his from where Minch 's cage was . |
| 19 | As he closed the door , he noticed for the first time that there was a star on it . |
| 20 | As he hung about the Red Anchor he noticed for the first time that its character was changing . |
| 21 | This last point is certainly not irrelevant , since the commemorative scroll sent to me from the Palace names Leslie as of the Parachute Regiment ; and under this unit did he appear for the last time in the Army List . |
| 22 | Perhaps the most significant intellectual advance of the mid-20th century was indeed made by Karl Popper , not because he provided any kind of method for scientists to pursue ( as he decidedly did not ) but because he showed for the first time in formal philosophy , that science is inescapably a human activity , and that if its underlying human-ness is ever shelved it is only temporarily , and for convenience , to ameliorate human frailty . |
| 23 | Little is known of Francis Wright 's early years , but in 1830 , on the retirement of his father , he became the senior partner in Butterley , which he dominated for the next forty-three years . |
| 24 | ‘ He paid for the first round out of a fiver and the third with another fiver . |
| 25 | Instead he served for the next three yearswith a merchant shipping company . |
| 26 | He prayed for the first time in years to the Holy Spirit to come and take his brother 's soul . |
| 27 | In 1837 he was apprenticed to his uncle James S. Stirling at Dundee foundry , where he worked for the next six years and where some locomotives were built for the Arbroath and Forfar Railway which influenced his own later designs . |
| 28 | Alright he was carrying an injury but surely the onus of the team should not rest on a single player — and besides what was he doing for the first 80 minutes on Saturday . |
| 29 | ‘ It 's possible , Brother , ’ he boomed for the umpteenth time , his bewhiskered lips red from the juice of the grape , ‘ quite possible that Sir Bartholomew is still alive and hiding in or near the Tower to carry out his silent war of revenge . ’ |
| 30 | He lost for the first time on Saturday . |