Example sentences of "[coord] he [vb past] for a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ken Wolstenholme was never really lost to football after he left the Beeb and he commentated for a time on ITV 's Tyne Tees station and recently worked for Tottenham 's Clubcall line . |
| 2 | The question was direct and he blinked for a moment before answering : ‘ Yes , ’ he said , ‘ honestly yes , I will . |
| 3 | A real wanderer , and he looked for a sign of her inheritance in himself . |
| 4 | His confidence grew and he applied for a job at the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre at Stratford upon Avon . |
| 5 | It seemed as if it were coming from a long distance and he waited for a moment , and the moment went into a full minute , and then slowly he opened the door . |
| 6 | And he paused for a moment before adding wistfully , ‘ more 's the pity . ’ |
| 7 | Panels lit up and he reached for a number of X-ray plates which he attached to the luminescent plastic . |
| 8 | That left just one door , and he hesitated for a moment before opening it . |
| 9 | Perhaps she heard his steps before he knocked — she opened the door very quickly — and he wondered for a moment if she had been as she had when he last saw her , standing just inside the door , her head on one side , listening , as she had listened to the bombs , and to the siren she heard before it was sounded . |
| 10 | At the LCY central committee plenum in October Simic also said that the new programme of reform could not be implemented by the LCY , and he called for a referendum on these questions and on the Constitution . |
| 11 | In a conference fringe speech which appeared to set out his own personal manifesto , the Leader of the Commons also echoed Mr Heseltine 's views on the need to take a more positive attitude to the European Community , and he called for a moderation of the Government 's confrontational style . |
| 12 | There was the fork ahead of him , and he slowed for a gap in the oncoming traffic . |
| 13 | Giving himself dialogue seemed to calm him and he stood for a moment , arms idle at his side , breathing slowly and heavily . |
| 14 | We were back in the bedroom then and he stood for a moment looking down at her . |
| 15 | The Magistrate 's eye moved from one doctor to the other over the passive rows of tattered skeletons and he forgot for a moment that he was as thin and ragged as they were . |
| 16 | But he stood for a moment , hesitating , and Ruth saw a look of such sadness go over his face that tears threatened her again . |