Example sentences of "he [verb] [adv] for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She said : ‘ Try and persuade him to come home for a special tea . |
| 2 | A curt note arrived shortly afterwards from Mauve , telling him to stay away for the next two months . |
| 3 | Our lawyer took the idea to the court , and the judge altered the terms of Rickie 's bail to let him come here for a therapeutic cruise . |
| 4 | You go to the most wonderful places , you STAND in Soweto outside Nelson Mandela 's little house and watch him come home for the first time in 25 years . |
| 5 | He made straight for the big warhorse , mounted , said something to Will , and started along the street . |
| 6 | He gazed calmly for a few seconds before he lifted his hand in greeting . |
| 7 | He cares neither for the broad sweep of grand strategy nor for the narrow focus of specific campaigns , so he ignores both government archives and the memoirs of the great and the good . |
| 8 | If anyone have seen pictures from our game against Poland he came on as a substitute for Fjortoft as lone attacker — and he played brilliantly for the 20 minutes he was on . |
| 9 | At about this time , the BBC offered him a World Service job based in London and , at the age of 30 , he came here for the first time . |
| 10 | He turned away for a few moments and I could see that he was upset by the news . |
| 11 | The charter provides evidence of a surprisingly well-worked-out system to ensure castle-guard of the town : in April , May , June , July and August , it was the count 's responsibility , though he paid only for the first two months directly out of his own treasury ; , the inhabitants of the town produced a tax for the following three . |
| 12 | Last week he walked upstairs for the first time in three years and just burst into tears . |
| 13 | He called instead for a broader provision which would permit employers to adopt hiring practices which " serve legitimate employment goals " . |
| 14 | He chewed vigorously for a few seconds . |
| 15 | He chewed away for a few moments and then nodded with pleasure . |
| 16 | More than 20 years since he started flying , he went solo for the first time . |
| 17 | Having got to Bristol , he went home for a short holiday and died . |
| 18 | The jibes of the kids at his scattered schools , which he attended sometimes for a token day or two to throw a sop to the government , struck him as neither here nor there . |
| 19 | Cursing and gasping , he lay there for a full five minutes , the surprisingly intact fish by his side . |
| 20 | Strikes by Doherty ‘ s National Union of Operative Spinners , and in the coal fields , greatly alarmed Peel , at the Home Office ; and , in what were to be the dying days of the Tory administration , he looked unsuccessfully for a legal answer to what he called ‘ the constitution and acts of a confederacy calculated in its immediate effects to disturb the peace of the manufacturing districts , and capable , if allowed to gain strength and consistency , of being converted at once into an open resistance to the law . ’ |
| 21 | He smiled then for the first time , and the smile lightened his face to a sudden , vivid charm . |
| 22 | He did so for no particular reason ; it was just an impulse . |
| 23 | When each Evangelist recorded the stories about Jesus he did so for a particular purpose . |
| 24 | King Hussein delivered a televised speech to the nation on Nov. 5 in which he spoke publicly for the first time about his recent cancer surgery in the United States [ see p. 39118 ] , announcing that he would have to undergo further tests in the USA . |
| 25 | While I think he is right to criticise those who propounded a social gospel earlier in the century he does so for the wrong reason . |
| 26 | Hands out like a battering ram , he kicked underwater for the far bank , feeling the grab of the current . |
| 27 | He sat there for a few minutes . |
| 28 | He sat there for a few moments inhaling the smoke . |
| 29 | He remained there for a few seconds then slowly got to his feet and moved to the door leading into the hallway . |
| 30 | He stayed there for a long time . |