Example sentences of "[adv] he [verb] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | So he made for the Jackley road from which nearly all the traffic had now disappeared . |
| 2 | Once inside he groped for the sheets in his pocket . |
| 3 | Yesterday he smiled for the last time and said he did not wish to obstruct the work of Prime Minister Hans Modrow — who now constitutes , with a small group of associates from Dresden , the only remaining acceptable face of reform within the East German Communist Party . |
| 4 | Hours later he reached for the bedside table again . |
| 5 | A few days later he begged for the offices held by his father and complained that it would be a great disgrace to him if they were granted to anyone else . |
| 6 | Hugo had no idea what to do : frantically he rang for the servants . |
| 7 | There were things he consciously noticed about people which he brought to mind long after he had ceased to watch them , but now he noted for the first time that she had very small feet — they could have belonged to the oriental he had imagined her to be through the sun haze . |
| 8 | Well he did for the Wigan one . |
| 9 | DeVore who had arranged the deal whereby he worked for the Levers and yet had his own private laboratories . |
| 10 | " Presumably he telephoned for the mechanic before he left . " |
| 11 | Then he left for the warmth of his blankets . |
| 12 | Then he made for the stairs , taking them two at a time . |
| 13 | Then he felt for the pain in his neck . |
| 14 | Then he reached for the brandy and tipped a measure into his own cup before offering to do the same with Shiona 's . |
| 15 | Then he allows for the effects of a ‘ propagation mechanism ’ ( see section 5.1(a) ) by adding the lagged value of to equation ( 6.2 ) and attaching a positive coefficient to it , giving : |
| 16 | ‘ A word about your weapons , gentlemen , ’ he smarmed , then he went for the quick draw and levelled a long-barrelled pistol at all of us . |
| 17 | Then he heads for the store , to cash it in . |
| 18 | Then he called for the caskets of gold in which was the balsam and the myrrh which the Soldan of Persia had sent him ; and when these were put before him he bade them bring him the golden cup , of which he was wont to drink ; and he took of that balsam and of that myrrh as much as a little spoon-full , and mingled it in the cup with rose-water and drank of it ; and for the seven days which he lived he neither ate nor drank aught else than a little of that myrrh and balsam mingled with water . |
| 19 | Then he worked for the British . ’ |
| 20 | Twice he worked for the Wellington City Mission , among the lost and lonely people of the inner city . |
| 21 | Instead he reached for the whisky bottle . |
| 22 | Instead he served for the next three yearswith a merchant shipping company . |
| 23 | But instead he headed for the bathroom . |
| 24 | Politicians with a burgh interest regularly made contributions to the cost of public works in the communities with which they concerned themselves , as Lord Panmure did in 1761 , when he subscribed for the construction of a new town hall in Montrose . |
| 25 | ‘ I remember him , of course , from when he played for the Giants . |
| 26 | At the time when he calls for the actor to desist , the constable must already have reasonable grounds to believe that an offence has occurred . |
| 27 | Mr Morris , whose own house suffered relatively little damage , said he realised the potential danger early on Thursday evening when he asked for the river to be kept clear of debris before the level grew too high . |
| 28 | This was nothing new , as movie stars had supported John F. Kennedy when he ran for the White House . |
| 29 | Since the England manager acted as one of Ward 's referees when he applied for the York job , it was no surprise when Taylor turned to one of his trusted lieutenants to take charge of England 's Under-21 squad for the end-of-season international tournament in Toulon . |
| 30 | RORY Underwood makes his last appearance of the season at Twickenham today when he plays for the Royal Air Force against the Army in the crucial final match of this year 's Inter Service tournament . |