Example sentences of "he [vb past] [adv] for a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He gazed calmly for a few seconds before he lifted his hand in greeting . |
| 2 | All Cantona would say as he headed off for a quick trip to Paris before preparing for Sunday 's derby clash was : ‘ I enjoyed my debut . ’ |
| 3 | Ockleton described a sweeping circuit of the room , missing all the many obstacles in his path without apparently noticing them , and finished by the window , where he peered out for a full minute or so at the view it commanded of a blank gable-end and half the dome of the Radcliffe Camera . |
| 4 | Strachan was inspirational , and his goal was the highlight of the match — running at the defence , he twisted through for a fine shot about fifteen yards out . |
| 5 | He came up for a few days and stayed in Mackay 's Hotel in Ardallt . |
| 6 | He drove on for a few minutes , the headlights cleaving a way through the darkness . |
| 7 | He turned away for a few moments and I could see that he was upset by the news . |
| 8 | He frowned down for a few moments at the damp patch on the matting at his feet , then he shook his head , as if ridding himself of some unwelcome thought , and looked up at me again . |
| 9 | Anyway , he waffled on for a little while about everything that did n't matter and then … ’ she swallowed ‘ … then he got down to it and told me about everything that did . ’ |
| 10 | After some years in theatrical revue and improvisational comedy in the Second City troupe in Chicago , he gained wide fame when he teamed up for a double act with Elaine May from 1957 to 1961 , before becoming a successful Broadway director . |
| 11 | Perhaps he popped out for a quick sandwich while Nigel read ? |
| 12 | He walked on for a few yards , stooped and picked something up . |
| 13 | Whatever his personal misgivings , Valenzuela hid them well and when his compulsory military service ended he signed on for a permanent career in the Air Force . |
| 14 | He signed up for a ten-week ‘ twilight ’ course in order to ‘ remedy this deficiency ’ . |
| 15 | Ronnie Wilkie from Pest Control Dundee recently proved that cockroaches are anywhere and everywhere when he signed up for a sizeable job to rid an oil rig off the Aberdeen coast of them . |
| 16 | The dragon heaved a huge sigh of relief and politely turned his head to let out a huge smoky belch ; then he settled down for a dragon-like snooze . |
| 17 | He called instead for a broader provision which would permit employers to adopt hiring practices which " serve legitimate employment goals " . |
| 18 | But Ven , she discovered , was not prepared to let her off the hook , and , ‘ Why … ’ he began to challenge , ‘ … when you 're honest , I know it , yet have begun on a path of deception to one particular end — why , when it 's so important to your sister whom — you love … ’ an alert look suddenly came to his eyes , and he broke off for a brief moment before continuing , his serious dark eyes holding hers ‘ … a sister whom you 'd do anything for , as you proved when you left England and came here — why are you ready to leave now , without another thought ? ’ |
| 19 | He chewed vigorously for a few seconds . |
| 20 | He chewed away for a few moments and then nodded with pleasure . |
| 21 | In the final between Bridgend and Gloucester , after a flash of brilliance from Glen Webbe towards the end when he went over for a magnificent try and another brilliant individual effort by him when he sent over Mark Jones , Bridgend clinched a 22–12 victory . |
| 22 | He went on for a long time — we had such energy , then , in our quarrels — and sank deeper and deeper into what was really absurdity , saying that it was all his fault , he had been a lousy husband , too absorbed in his job to notice I was bored and fretting because I was ‘ wasting my education ’ , and that if only I had been ‘ straight ’ with him , we could have done something to put this right . |
| 23 | Having got to Bristol , he went home for a short holiday and died . |
| 24 | He went out for a few moments and stood on the steps between the Greek pillars , looking in the direction of the Residency for any sign of movement . |
| 25 | The Rothmans Honda team member broke his right leg in five places when he went down for a second time during the opening championship round on a wet Suzuka circuit . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Cursing and gasping , he lay there for a full five minutes , the surprisingly intact fish by his side . |
| 28 | 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 . ’ |
| 29 | When each Evangelist recorded the stories about Jesus he did so for a particular purpose . |
| 30 | He found it incredibly rewarding and had a couple of momentous experiences of such excitement that he tried to recreate the excitement instead of going back to what caused it ( the old Orgasmic-Goal orientation — see Dr Ruth , pages 12 to 461 ) , so he gave up for a few years . |