Example sentences of "he [vb past] [verb] for a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was sitting just a matter of inches away , when he moved to reach for a coffee-cup she caught the smell of freshly washed hair , and her fingers itched with the memory of tangling themselves in those jet-black waves . |
| 2 | At a corner he stopped to wait for a break in the traffic . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Even his genetic code was noted , from when he 'd applied for a work permit , but no matter how subtly Reynard interrogated , no matter how bright his ideas of lateral interrogation , every time he drew blank . |
| 5 | After that , he 'd headed for a street in north-west London that he had n't visited in over a year . |
| 6 | Well he told me he 'd gone for a count |
| 7 | He said he 'd gone for a count for a job |
| 8 | He fell asleep , but hours later he woke up and felt again — as he 'd felt for a moment in the hall when he 'd arrived — that he should n't be in this house . |
| 9 | He 'd thought for a moment that the fates had it in for him . |
| 10 | Gorelli , he 'd won for a while , but now he was losing , and he was losing big . |
| 11 | He bought groceries to last him the week , then popped next door to the frame shop to pick up the stainless steel frame he 'd ordered for a James Barker black and white print he 'd obtained in an auction some weeks before . |
| 12 | He seemed to hesitate for a moment . |
| 13 | He seemed to hesitate for a moment . |
| 14 | He seemed destined for a career as an engineer like his father , but with much brighter prospects . |
| 15 | He began working for a master 's degree , studying the language of medieval petitions in the Public Record Office . |
| 16 | He began to look for a job . |
| 17 | The second day he started looking for a house to rent . |
| 18 | He had , in fact , just left me on a bench in a nearby park where we had spent some time together before he decided to go for a stroll . |
| 19 | Having got the company going , he decided to look for an accountant . |
| 20 | He went looking for a gas leak with a lighted match . ’ |
| 21 | He managed to sleep for a couple of hours , then rose and wandered off to Franco 's bar to see if Maidstone was there . |
| 22 | This time he did reach for a cigarette and light it up . |
| 23 | He had suspected for a while that Nancy had become tired of Bill Sikes ' brutality and violence , and that she had found a new friend to take his place . |
| 24 | A little later from his bedroom , where he had retired for a rest , he watched through his daughters ' brass telescope as the grey shadow of what had once been the sleek and lively Hari moved slowly over to the sepoy lines with , as usual , the Prime Minister dodging along behind am . |
| 25 | Commander Michael Porter , Tory chairman of the council 's education committee , said he had hoped for a decision that would ‘ provide us with a way to achieve the best possible education for pupils in south Reading , allowing us to set up a super new school designed for the demands of the 21st century , and a sixth form college . ’ |
| 26 | He had hoped for a snort at least for this , but Rosie did not react . |
| 27 | It had been Dalrymple 's idea to require the clan chiefs to take the oath of allegiance and it became obvious that he had hoped for an opportunity to punish one clan as an example to the others . |
| 28 | He had lived for a time in England , and we discussed whether to conduct the session in English or German . |
| 29 | In his choice of contributor Lehmann was able to draw upon his wide-ranging contacts , for he had lived for a period in Vienna and had also travelled Europe in search of material . |
| 30 | He had applied for a grant but at the time Liverpool City Council was snowed under by applications . |