Example sentences of "he [vb past] [v-ing] for a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He stopped speaking for a moment , like a man walking who comes to a brink ; perhaps it was an artful pause , but it made the stars , the night , seem to wait , as if story , narration , history , lay imbricated in the nature of things ; and the cosmos was for the story , not the story for the cosmos . |
| 2 | He began working for a master 's degree , studying the language of medieval petitions in the Public Record Office . |
| 3 | The second day he started looking for a house to rent . |
| 4 | He went looking for a gas leak with a lighted match . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ Hello , Gerald , ’ he said looking for a kind word from someone . |