Example sentences of "[adv] he [vb past] for a [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 Fussily he searched for a safe place , finally leaning the contraption against the wall behind his chair before sitting down .
4 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 .
5 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 .
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