Example sentences of "[adv] he [verb] for the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So he made for the Jackley road from which nearly all the traffic had now disappeared . |
| 2 | Once inside he groped for the sheets in his pocket . |
| 3 | Hours later he reached for the bedside table again . |
| 4 | A few days later he begged for the offices held by his father and complained that it would be a great disgrace to him if they were granted to anyone else . |
| 5 | Hugo had no idea what to do : frantically he rang for the servants . |
| 6 | Well he did for the Wigan one . |
| 7 | " Presumably he telephoned for the mechanic before he left . " |
| 8 | Then he left for the warmth of his blankets . |
| 9 | Then he made for the stairs , taking them two at a time . |
| 10 | Then he felt for the pain in his neck . |
| 11 | Then he reached for the brandy and tipped a measure into his own cup before offering to do the same with Shiona 's . |
| 12 | Then he allows for the effects of a ‘ propagation mechanism ’ ( see section 5.1(a) ) by adding the lagged value of to equation ( 6.2 ) and attaching a positive coefficient to it , giving : |
| 13 | Then he heads for the store , to cash it in . |
| 14 | Then he called for the caskets of gold in which was the balsam and the myrrh which the Soldan of Persia had sent him ; and when these were put before him he bade them bring him the golden cup , of which he was wont to drink ; and he took of that balsam and of that myrrh as much as a little spoon-full , and mingled it in the cup with rose-water and drank of it ; and for the seven days which he lived he neither ate nor drank aught else than a little of that myrrh and balsam mingled with water . |
| 15 | Twice he worked for the Wellington City Mission , among the lost and lonely people of the inner city . |
| 16 | Instead he reached for the whisky bottle . |
| 17 | But instead he headed for the bathroom . |
| 18 | Until recently he worked for The Nation , Thailand 's other English language newspaper . |
| 19 | Quietly he asked for the Standard and handed across his money between the jutting arms ; he did n't want any trouble . |