Example sentences of "[adv] he [verb] for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So he settled for a secure telephone call , indifferent to what that would do to Maxim 's reputation among the Defence Staff at the embassy . |
| 2 | Later still he became for a short time a professor at Cambridge . |
| 3 | Yesterday he smiled for the last time and said he did not wish to obstruct the work of Prime Minister Hans Modrow — who now constitutes , with a small group of associates from Dresden , the only remaining acceptable face of reform within the East German Communist Party . |
| 4 | Consider this example : PB = Child has tantrum whenever he asks for a sweet ( or something else ) and does not get it . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Fussily he searched for a safe place , finally leaning the contraption against the wall behind his chair before sitting down . |
| 7 | True , his critics would rather he settled for an easier life . |
| 8 | ‘ A word about your weapons , gentlemen , ’ he smarmed , then he went for the quick draw and levelled a long-barrelled pistol at all of us . |
| 9 | Then he rested for a few minutes and pushed on again . |
| 10 | Then he worked for the British . ’ |
| 11 | Instead he served for the next three yearswith a merchant shipping company . |
| 12 | Instead he called for a new security order based either on " trilateral Soviet-Japanese-US consultations and concrete agreements " , or a five-power conference involving China , India , Japan , the Soviet Union and the USA . |
| 13 | RORY Underwood makes his last appearance of the season at Twickenham today when he plays for the Royal Air Force against the Army in the crucial final match of this year 's Inter Service tournament . |
| 14 | Lech Walesa became the first Polish President to visit Israel when he arrived for a four-day visit on May 20 . |
| 15 | Yet he passes for a moderate within the fierce revolutionary council , the Dergue . |
| 16 | Many of the pieces were purchased by Dubosc in Japan where he lived for the latter part of his life and much of his collection is now in the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco . |
| 17 | In an attempt to solve the Arab-Israeli crisis , the Highland Light Infantry sent Docherty to Palestine , where he played for the British Army XI . |
| 18 | In a career that took him to Genoa where he played for the local side Sampdoria , he assumed an almost Italianate sense of style . |
| 19 | He was educated at Harrow , from where he went for a few months into his father 's City office , which he hated ; and he spent a term in Göttingen , learning German . |
| 20 | He had made a detour to a cafe where he stayed for an unspecified time before walking to the Post and entering by the back door , discovering the mayhem in the newsroom and retreating to the printer 's office . |
| 21 | Giles was held in high esteem in America and Europe , especially in Berlin , where he worked for a short time . |
| 22 | He did n't answer and shortly afterwards he slowed for a right-hand bend , his body bent forward , the dummy hand clamped tight on the steering wheel . |