Example sentences of "[adv] he [vb past] 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 | 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 . |
| 5 | Fussily he searched for a safe place , finally leaning the contraption against the wall behind his chair before sitting down . |
| 6 | True , his critics would rather he settled for an easier life . |
| 7 | ‘ 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 . |
| 8 | Then he rested for a few minutes and pushed on again . |
| 9 | Then he worked for the British . ’ |
| 10 | Instead he served for the next three yearswith a merchant shipping company . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |