Example sentences of "[adv] he [verb] for [art] " in BNC.

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1 If he 's not there , perhaps he went for a walk in the grounds ? ’
2 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 .
3 So he made for the Jackley road from which nearly all the traffic had now disappeared .
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 Once inside he groped for the sheets in his pocket .
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 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 .
10 Hours later he reached for the bedside table again .
11 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 .
12 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 .
13 Hugo had no idea what to do : frantically he rang for the servants .
14 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 .
15 So now he worked for a taxi firm .
16 Fussily he searched for a safe place , finally leaning the contraption against the wall behind his chair before sitting down .
17 Well he did for the Wigan one .
18 " Presumably he telephoned for the mechanic before he left . "
19 True , his critics would rather he settled for an easier life .
20 Sometimes he longed for a posting just to see different surroundings .
21 Then he left for the warmth of his blankets .
22 Then he paused for a moment .
23 Then he made for the stairs , taking them two at a time .
24 Then he felt for the pain in his neck .
25 He keeps calling in till he 's acknowledged , then he asks for a road report .
26 Then he reached for the brandy and tipped a measure into his own cup before offering to do the same with Shiona 's .
27 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 :
28 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 . ’
29 Then he thought for a moment , and began to smile .
30 pulls on his trunks then he swims for a while , gets out , takes off his trunks , puts his towel round himself , rubs himself , walks round the pool a couple of times and rubs himself
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