Example sentences of "then he [verb] for [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Then he left for the warmth of his blankets . |
2 | Then he paused for a moment . |
3 | Then he made for the stairs , taking them two at a time . |
4 | Then he felt for the pain in his neck . |
5 | He keeps calling in till he 's acknowledged , then he asks for a road report . |
6 | Then he reached for the brandy and tipped a measure into his own cup before offering to do the same with Shiona 's . |
7 | Then he allows for the effects of a ‘ propagation mechanism ’ ( see section 5.1(a) ) by adding the lagged value of to equation ( 6.2 ) and attaching a positive coefficient to it , giving : |
8 | I told him of the plight of all the refugees on the station , then he thought for a minute and said , ‘ Well , I 'm running a camp at the moment , and have over a thousand in it , but I 'm sure we can squash you all in somehow . ’ |
9 | Then he thought for a moment , and began to smile . |
10 | pulls on his trunks then he swims for a while , gets out , takes off his trunks , puts his towel round himself , rubs himself , walks round the pool a couple of times and rubs himself |
11 | Then he heads for the store , to cash it in . |
12 | Then he fumbled for a cigarette , lit it clumsily , and sat drawing in smoke as if it were a narcotic . |
13 | In semi-darkness , she waited , hearing the sound of a key grating against metal , and then he fumbled for a moment , muttering to himself in Italian . |
14 | Then he called for the caskets of gold in which was the balsam and the myrrh which the Soldan of Persia had sent him ; and when these were put before him he bade them bring him the golden cup , of which he was wont to drink ; and he took of that balsam and of that myrrh as much as a little spoon-full , and mingled it in the cup with rose-water and drank of it ; and for the seven days which he lived he neither ate nor drank aught else than a little of that myrrh and balsam mingled with water . |
15 | Then he sat for a while on the aisle stand which was a box covering the auto-pilot , where he was able to look out through the nose . |