Example sentences of "and he [vb past] for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ken Wolstenholme was never really lost to football after he left the Beeb and he commentated for a time on ITV 's Tyne Tees station and recently worked for Tottenham 's Clubcall line . |
| 2 | The question was direct and he blinked for a moment before answering : ‘ Yes , ’ he said , ‘ honestly yes , I will . |
| 3 | Mike Towers , with a background of newspaper journalism — he 'd worked for the Evening World in Bristol — assumed control of " Here Today " and he went for a harder , more newsy approach . |
| 4 | A real wanderer , and he looked for a sign of her inheritance in himself . |
| 5 | His confidence grew and he applied for a job at the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre at Stratford upon Avon . |
| 6 | And he pleaded for a firmer approach from tonight 's referee , Denmark 's Kim Milton Nielsen . |
| 7 | It seemed as if it were coming from a long distance and he waited for a moment , and the moment went into a full minute , and then slowly he opened the door . |
| 8 | He said it was the government 's intention to privatize 30-40 per cent of state assets and he asked for a six-month moratorium on trade union pay demands . |
| 9 | And he paused for a moment before adding wistfully , ‘ more 's the pity . ’ |
| 10 | Panels lit up and he reached for a number of X-ray plates which he attached to the luminescent plastic . |
| 11 | Ill health dogged his period at St Mary 's , and he returned for a further period of treatment while he was the curate , and in September 1962 he came to Coniston as the Parish priest and significantly , no further setbacks were experienced to his health while he was living in proximity to Coniston Old Man and during the period he was Parish Priest . |
| 12 | That left just one door , and he hesitated for a moment before opening it . |
| 13 | Perhaps she heard his steps before he knocked — she opened the door very quickly — and he wondered for a moment if she had been as she had when he last saw her , standing just inside the door , her head on one side , listening , as she had listened to the bombs , and to the siren she heard before it was sounded . |
| 14 | And he sat for a long time in a melancholy reverie as the ants continued to drift down , thinking of the futility of all endeavour . |
| 15 | In a conference fringe speech which appeared to set out his own personal manifesto , the Leader of the Commons also echoed Mr Heseltine 's views on the need to take a more positive attitude to the European Community , and he called for a moderation of the Government 's confrontational style . |
| 16 | At the LCY central committee plenum in October Simic also said that the new programme of reform could not be implemented by the LCY , and he called for a referendum on these questions and on the Constitution . |
| 17 | According to C.-in-C. of CIS Armed Forces Marshal Yevgeny Shaposhnikov , it now remained for Ukraine to recognize Russia 's jurisdiction over nuclear weapons located on its territory , and he called for a Russian-Ukrainian summit to discuss the issue . |
| 18 | Eric Stephen said he thought that a of method getting people into the scheme was ‘ off the rails ’ and he called for a large input of help and direction while Andrew Macfarlane said that unless the end user guaranteed a premium farming leaders could ‘ forget FASL ’ . |
| 19 | There was the fork ahead of him , and he slowed for a gap in the oncoming traffic . |
| 20 | Giving himself dialogue seemed to calm him and he stood for a moment , arms idle at his side , breathing slowly and heavily . |
| 21 | We were back in the bedroom then and he stood for a moment looking down at her . |
| 22 | The Magistrate 's eye moved from one doctor to the other over the passive rows of tattered skeletons and he forgot for a moment that he was as thin and ragged as they were . |