Example sentences of "he [vb past] for a [noun sg] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wright pleaded guilty to all charges , and also admitted obtaining £207,000 from the Halifax Building Society by deception when he applied for a mortgage claiming , falsely , that he did not have one . |
| 2 | Taking advantage of the discretionary powers granted him by the tsar , he asked for a treaty guaranteeing Russia 's right to a protectorate over the Orthodox Christians of the Ottoman Empire . |
| 3 | He lingered for a moment sneering at the guilty red core that was revealed beneath the stucco of lime and sand . |
| 4 | He lay for a moment trying to recover his wind before rising again to his feet . |
| 5 | He smiled for a moment thinking it was a joke ( a slash of the knife at this point ) and then the smile turned to disbelief — ‘ he did n't look disabled ’ — finally he felt embarrassment that he had progressed through such sensational thoughts . |
| 6 | As he waited for a colleague delivering mail to Mr Reenan 's £300,000 Oxfordshire home , Ron said : ‘ One minute he 's talking about going to Diana , the next he 's gone to a newspaper . |
| 7 | He stayed for a while reflecting on what Fitzormonde had told him ; first , both Sir Ralph and Mowbray 's murders were connected to that terrible act of betrayal in Cyprus so many years earlier . |
| 8 | He stayed for a while sitting exhaustedly as if loath to take up his burdens again , postponing the moment when he would have to go back to supporting everyone else . |
| 9 | And as Morse opened his passenger door , he stood for a while looking up at the Pole Star , and asking himself the question he had been asking for the past two hours : was there any way in which Downes could still have been the murderer after all ? |
| 10 | He stood for a while staring at them . |
| 11 | He stood for a minute looking up at it , Kate unspeaking at his side . |
| 12 | He stood for a moment listening to her standing still on the other side of the door , then heard her footsteps moving slowly away . |
| 13 | We were back in the bedroom then and he stood for a moment looking down at her . |
| 14 | He stood for a moment chewing his lip . |
| 15 | He stood for a moment admiring it . |
| 16 | He stood for a moment laughing at her as she cast furiously for the vanished rabbit , and walked on , to catch her up , along the raised embankment . |
| 17 | When he parked outside a row of shops , he stood for a moment examining the passing traffic . |