Example sentences of "[adv] he [vb past] for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The little Hoflin did n't fall over and looked extremely pretty , and when the curtain came down he leaned for a moment on the rostrum and took a deep breath . |
| 2 | If he 's not there , perhaps he went for a walk in the grounds ? ’ |
| 3 | I do n't know whether Mr Palmer read my thoughts — but it was a tight hole and there was a need for accuracy — but sure enough he opted for a 1-iron . |
| 4 | So he settled for a secure telephone call , indifferent to what that would do to Maxim 's reputation among the Defence Staff at the embassy . |
| 5 | Hunt 's steadily deflating tyre held up until the last corner before the pits ; in he came for a tyre change . |
| 6 | Desperately he looked for a way up the river bank . |
| 7 | Later still he became for a short time a professor at Cambridge . |
| 8 | Time and again Lear tried to tempt Gould to visit him in Rome ; always he pleaded for a letter : ‘ I am anxious to hear from you … ; |
| 9 | Two days later he called for a purge of FIS ranks ; only those " who believed in the new era for the country and in others ' right of expression " should be retained . |
| 10 | Half way up he rested for a minute or so to rest his straining arm and shoulder muscles , then continued his exhausting climb . |
| 11 | So now he worked for a taxi firm . |
| 12 | Fussily he searched for a safe place , finally leaning the contraption against the wall behind his chair before sitting down . |
| 13 | Sometimes he longed for a posting just to see different surroundings . |
| 14 | Then he paused for a moment . |
| 15 | I told him of the plight of all the refugees on the station , then he thought for a minute and said , ‘ Well , I 'm running a camp at the moment , and have over a thousand in it , but I 'm sure we can squash you all in somehow . ’ |
| 16 | Then he thought for a moment , and began to smile . |
| 17 | Then he fumbled for a cigarette , lit it clumsily , and sat drawing in smoke as if it were a narcotic . |
| 18 | In semi-darkness , she waited , hearing the sound of a key grating against metal , and then he fumbled for a moment , muttering to himself in Italian . |
| 19 | Then he sat for a while on the aisle stand which was a box covering the auto-pilot , where he was able to look out through the nose . |
| 20 | Then he rested for a few minutes and pushed on again . |
| 21 | He saw the calculation at the back of Weis 's eyes that greeted his comment — saw how he looked for a trap in every word of his — and smiled inwardly . |
| 22 | Instead he called for a new security order based either on " trilateral Soviet-Japanese-US consultations and concrete agreements " , or a five-power conference involving China , India , Japan , the Soviet Union and the USA . |
| 23 | Well he he 'd got a , and if I 'd got to do it you know , another day , his er perhaps start and er i , well you know when he came for a meal and saw all that ? |
| 24 | Sometimes , when he went for a walk , she followed him ; if he stopped to look at something she stopped too and when he walked fast , she walked fast to keep up with him . |
| 25 | But 10 years ago , Gerald Kingsland hit the headlines when he advertised for a woman to live with him on a desert island . |
| 26 | There came a day when he arrived for a lecture in army uniform and carrying a rifle . |
| 27 | Lech Walesa became the first Polish President to visit Israel when he arrived for a four-day visit on May 20 . |
| 28 | The court was told that Lord Apsley was arrested last November when he arrived for a function at Gloucester Barracks in South Cerney . |
| 29 | He made these astonishing remarks when he called for a meeting with the Toronto Globe and Mail , much to the surprise of everyone . |
| 30 | Lord May cast a different slant on the word early in the new century when he called for a ‘ Hooligan Conference ’ , later to go under the more dignified title of the Twentieth Century League . |