Example sentences of "[adv] he [vb past] for a " 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 settled for a secure telephone call , indifferent to what that would do to Maxim 's reputation among the Defence Staff at the embassy . |
| 4 | Desperately he looked for a way up the river bank . |
| 5 | Later still he became for a short time a professor at Cambridge . |
| 6 | 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 … ; |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | So now he worked for a taxi firm . |
| 9 | Fussily he searched for a safe place , finally leaning the contraption against the wall behind his chair before sitting down . |
| 10 | True , his critics would rather he settled for an easier life . |
| 11 | Sometimes he longed for a posting just to see different surroundings . |
| 12 | Then he paused for a moment . |
| 13 | 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 . ’ |
| 14 | Then he thought for a moment , and began to smile . |
| 15 | Then he fumbled for a cigarette , lit it clumsily , and sat drawing in smoke as if it were a narcotic . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Then he rested for a few minutes and pushed on again . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | He then passed on to Constantinople , where again he stopped for a while ; and on 23 January 1433 ( I Jumada II 836 ) he set out for Edirne . |
| 21 | He did n't answer and shortly afterwards he slowed for a right-hand bend , his body bent forward , the dummy hand clamped tight on the steering wheel . |