Example sentences of "he [verb] [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 | GARY ARMSTRONG will take another giant step towards reviving his Scotland career when he lines up for the Barbarians at Leicester on December 28 . |
| 3 | ‘ The DJ took up the same line when he came on for the broadcast quiz interview , ’ she went on . |
| 4 | ‘ He came back for the church 's centenary , ’ Mr Hickman recalled . |
| 5 | When he came in for the night some hours later he was still agitated and fretting . |
| 6 | He turned up for the audition with his art teacher , Rose , who he was dating at the time . |
| 7 | HOW sickening that President Bush has to fend off allegations of a long-ago affair as he gears up for the US election . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | He reached over for the glass and swallowed down the rest of its contents , eyeing her malevolently . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | He reached up for the light switch . |
| 12 | As he reached out for the cheese , he heard a faint sound behind him … |
| 13 | He reached out for the book , but before Melissa could give it to him , Gebrec snatched it from her . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | ‘ He bends over for the SS , ’ said the mummy 's cap-wearing friend , making an obscene fist , ‘ you can tell . |
| 16 | He went up for the job , grinding his teeth , and got it . |
| 17 | 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 |
| 18 | He went back for the woman pedestrian he knocked down near a busy roundabout and helped her into his white Sierra car . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | But he went along for the ride , hoping he could put his spoke in and cancel the idea . |
| 21 | He listened out for the trickle of water , but the wind offered nothing but rustling grass , now very loud in his ears . |
| 22 | He felt around for the bedside table and the box of matches . |
| 23 | And he could have been back in the locker room even quicker had he served out for the match when he led 5–2 in the second set . |
| 24 | He looked round for the phone , found it and took it to the woman , laying it in her lap . |
| 25 | He looked round for the instrument and saw it on top of one of the presses . |
| 26 | He looked around for the stables , but could see none . |
| 27 | Finally , exhausted and irritable , he gives in for the sake of peace . |
| 28 | The voice he puts on for the customers , you would think he was in daily contact with the Lord Mayor or the Duke . |
| 29 | He gets up early in the morning , saddles his ass , cuts the wood for the sacrifice , and taking two young servants and Isaac with him , he sets off for the place of which God has told him . |
| 30 | His big blond head kept coming up , shaking once and then bobbing through the water as he struck out for the machine . |