Example sentences of "[adv] he [vb past] 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 | Then he reached for the brandy and tipped a measure into his own cup before offering to do the same with Shiona 's . |
| 26 | 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 . ’ |
| 27 | Then he thought for a moment , and began to smile . |
| 28 | ‘ 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 . |
| 29 | Then he fumbled for a cigarette , lit it clumsily , and sat drawing in smoke as if it were a narcotic . |
| 30 | 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 . |