Example sentences of "he [verb] [verb] for an [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | He has to leave for an important luncheon party in a few minutes . ’ |
| 3 | Since he resigned as defence secretary over the Westland helicopter affair in 1986 , he has campaigned for an active industrial policy . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | There was a fat envelope , probably the proofs of an article he had written for an anthropological journal . |
| 6 | He had asked for an urgent meeting with Rakovsky to discuss the report and get instructions . |