Example sentences of "he [verb] [verb] for a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Watch him wobble onto the dance floor as he goes looking for a decent record collection ( ie no Alice Cooper or Frank Zappa ) in CodeMasters ' happenin' hit … |
| 2 | Forest want an answer from Keane by the end of this week and he has asked for an extra couple of days to iron out the finer details . |
| 3 | He has to leave for an important luncheon party in a few minutes . ’ |
| 4 | On the contrary , he has pressed for a centralised federation in which Serbia would presumably play a dominant role . |
| 5 | In a wide ranging and at times overtly anti-communist speech , described by the Guardian of March 30 as " more measured and specific than any he has given for a long time " , Yeltsin pilloried central government policy , labelling perestroika the " last phase of the stagnation period " . |
| 6 | Since he resigned as defence secretary over the Westland helicopter affair in 1986 , he has campaigned for an active industrial policy . |
| 7 | That the miller 's knives substitute for his sexual potency rather than reflect it is indicated by the superiority of the clerk 's performance in bed with his wife to anything he has managed for a long time : He has fathered two children , but , like Bayard , his sexual energy is now exhausted . |
| 8 | It was a request from a colleague : he 'd be grateful if she could cast her eye over an article he 'd written for a quarterly journal , by Friday if possible . |
| 9 | And although her slenderness gave her an air of fragility , Guy had felt the gentle curves of her body when he 'd searched for a concealed weapon . |
| 10 | Was he going to give her some note on performance , some idea he 'd had for a new bit of business in the play ? |
| 11 | It was as if , having goaded her to the point of total capitulation , he 'd opted for a wary cooling-off period . |
| 12 | But it was when he began finding the 26 mile 385 yard distance — which he can complete in two hours and 57 minutes — ‘ about right for starters ’ , that he began to look for a new challenge . |
| 13 | His pacifism was couched in the violent language of subversion and revolution , and long before 1917 he began to look for a distinctive Scottish way out of the war . |
| 14 | He began to look for a safe stance for the night … |
| 15 | He started racing for a small local manufacturer . |
| 16 | He did not feel that he would want to return to university , so he decided to apply for an unclassed ‘ War Honours ’ degree — ‘ probably not worth the paper it 's written on ’ , but perhaps enough to get him started in some profession , such as colonial service or , possibly , journalism ; he rather liked the idea of becoming a parliamentary correspondent for a newspaper . |
| 17 | There was a fat envelope , probably the proofs of an article he had written for an anthropological journal . |
| 18 | He had hoped for a critical reexamination of the field . |
| 19 | He needed to compare his ledger 's statistics with the industry averages/norm , and he had hoped for a concentrated sample from their trade association , but no such luck . |
| 20 | If he had hoped for a gentle introduction to the life of the School , he was soon to be disappointed , for 1978 was to be the year in which far-reaching changes were to be set in motion . |
| 21 | The Attorney General , Eligio Hernández , appealed to the High Court against the search warrant , and said in a statement on Nov. 19 that he had applied for a Constitutional Court ruling on the legality of Judge Marino Barbero 's actions . |
| 22 | He had asked for a new security system for Lowermoor but was refused on cost grounds . |
| 23 | He had asked for an urgent meeting with Rakovsky to discuss the report and get instructions . |
| 24 | He believed there was a future for Swanage and therefore he had striven for a great number of years to improve it — ( laughter ) — but he was very glad that those who came from afar were pleased and satisfied . |
| 25 | It had been rather an expensive one as he had gone for a fleecy-lined designer number with flashes of blue , to match his eyes , on the shoulders and down the legs . |
| 26 | He had gone for a short walk over some fields — his constitutional — and had met a woman pushing a bicycle . |
| 27 | He was reminded of the statements of the stableman who had joined him for a drink at the Bull , situated at the end of Cross Street , and of the café owner where he had stopped for a fried breakfast . |
| 28 | At first he felt more relaxed than he had done for a long time . |
| 29 | He had known for a long time , but had refused to admit it to himself . |
| 30 | at last the confirmation of something he had known for a long time . |