Example sentences of "[adv] he [verb] for [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If he 's not there , perhaps he went for a walk in the grounds ? ’ |
| 2 | I do n't know whether Mr Palmer read my thoughts — but it was a tight hole and there was a need for accuracy — but sure enough he opted for a 1-iron . |
| 3 | So he made for the Jackley road from which nearly all the traffic had now disappeared . |
| 4 | Once inside he groped for the sheets in his pocket . |
| 5 | Desperately he looked for a way up the river bank . |
| 6 | Time and again Lear tried to tempt Gould to visit him in Rome ; always he pleaded for a letter : ‘ I am anxious to hear from you … ; |
| 7 | Hours later he reached for the bedside table again . |
| 8 | Two days later he called for a purge of FIS ranks ; only those " who believed in the new era for the country and in others ' right of expression " should be retained . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Hugo had no idea what to do : frantically he rang for the servants . |
| 11 | So now he worked for a taxi firm . |
| 12 | Well he did for the Wigan one . |
| 13 | " Presumably he telephoned for the mechanic before he left . " |
| 14 | Sometimes he longed for a posting just to see different surroundings . |
| 15 | Then he left for the warmth of his blankets . |
| 16 | Then he paused for a moment . |
| 17 | Then he made for the stairs , taking them two at a time . |
| 18 | Then he felt for the pain in his neck . |
| 19 | He keeps calling in till he 's acknowledged , then he asks for a road report . |
| 20 | Then he reached for the brandy and tipped a measure into his own cup before offering to do the same with Shiona 's . |
| 21 | 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 : |
| 22 | I told him of the plight of all the refugees on the station , then he thought for a minute and said , ‘ Well , I 'm running a camp at the moment , and have over a thousand in it , but I 'm sure we can squash you all in somehow . ’ |
| 23 | Then he thought for a moment , and began to smile . |
| 24 | pulls on his trunks then he swims for a while , gets out , takes off his trunks , puts his towel round himself , rubs himself , walks round the pool a couple of times and rubs himself |
| 25 | Then he heads for the store , to cash it in . |
| 26 | Then he fumbled for a cigarette , lit it clumsily , and sat drawing in smoke as if it were a narcotic . |
| 27 | In semi-darkness , she waited , hearing the sound of a key grating against metal , and then he fumbled for a moment , muttering to himself in Italian . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Then he sat for a while on the aisle stand which was a box covering the auto-pilot , where he was able to look out through the nose . |
| 30 | Twice he worked for the Wellington City Mission , among the lost and lonely people of the inner city . |