Example sentences of "he [vb past] [adv prt] for the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Collecting her ticket , she came up behind him again as he checked in for the flight . |
| 2 | ‘ The DJ took up the same line when he came on for the broadcast quiz interview , ’ she went on . |
| 3 | ‘ He came back for the church 's centenary , ’ Mr Hickman recalled . |
| 4 | When he came in for the night some hours later he was still agitated and fretting . |
| 5 | He turned up for the audition with his art teacher , Rose , who he was dating at the time . |
| 6 | Pilots were to be Russ Boardman and Lee Gehlbach , but Boardman was injured prior to the race and Doolittle found he had no mount ( his landing gear had jammed ) , so he took over for the Thompson . |
| 7 | He reached over for the glass and swallowed down the rest of its contents , eyeing her malevolently . |
| 8 | He reached up for the handle , grasped it , tried to turn it once , failed , tried again and this time dropped face down over the threshold as the door swung open . |
| 9 | He reached up for the light switch . |
| 10 | As he reached out for the cheese , he heard a faint sound behind him … |
| 11 | He reached out for the book , but before Melissa could give it to him , Gebrec snatched it from her . |
| 12 | As he spoke , he reached out for the hand that was nearest to him , uncurling her fingers from the tense fist they had formed without any difficulty as the contact had its inevitable effect on her . |
| 13 | He went up for the job , grinding his teeth , and got it . |
| 14 | I think we said to you on Friday erm both me and Roger actually said that he he went into er he went in for the kill and he c he came out with slaughter |
| 15 | He went back for the woman pedestrian he knocked down near a busy roundabout and helped her into his white Sierra car . |
| 16 | He went back for the President , lifting him from behind by both elbows and walking him into the shower with his boxer shorts and his sandals on . |
| 17 | But he went along for the ride , hoping he could put his spoke in and cancel the idea . |
| 18 | He listened out for the trickle of water , but the wind offered nothing but rustling grass , now very loud in his ears . |
| 19 | He felt around for the bedside table and the box of matches . |
| 20 | He looked round for the phone , found it and took it to the woman , laying it in her lap . |
| 21 | He looked round for the instrument and saw it on top of one of the presses . |
| 22 | He looked around for the stables , but could see none . |
| 23 | His big blond head kept coming up , shaking once and then bobbing through the water as he struck out for the machine . |
| 24 | He shot off for the bungalow and a private phone . |
| 25 | The very idea of Poland was an insult to everything Frederick thought Prussia stood for , and the only hope he held out for the Poles was that partition and Germanisation would turn them into useful members of society . |
| 26 | Prince Adam promptly donated the entire museum to a foundation which he set up for the purpose , to which he also ceded all his rights to his pre-war estates and property . |
| 27 | And at last he set out for the meeting-place . |
| 28 | But there was a FOR SALE board up , new today , he had n't seen it there this morning when he set out for the meeting with the AC . |
| 29 | Checking his watch , he set off for the hilltop once more . |
| 30 | As he set off for the airport Lewis remembered that he had told Adam from the first that only trouble could come from a person of his youth and inexperience inheriting a big house and land of the dimensions of Wyvis Hall . |