Example sentences of "and he [vb past] [adv prt] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | and er , I told him all about it , and I said I do n't know what happened to I spoke to somebody last Monday and he was coming down immediately for it , so he sort of said , well I 'll come down for it , there 's a different one , he got , and he came down for it and he took it , so er , . |
| 2 | His condition is fine and he went out for a breath of fresh air . |
| 3 | He thought suddenly of how she must look , seen from inside the kitchen she was leaning out of ; an ugly sexual idea occurred to him , and he looked about for the big black BMW bike , but it was n't there . |
| 4 | He was not tall , close to minimum height in fact , but he was stocky , and he made up for lack of inches with a pressing , high-speed manner which sometimes made people think he was all noise and movement and no intelligence . |
| 5 | She lifted a lined face to him , and he reached over for another Kleenex and smoothed the wetness away , so that she was almost without makeup . |
| 6 | Oh , and he signed up for accountancy of course . |
| 7 | Blanche 's question woke Dexter from his reverie and he cast around for a photograph of Nicola in the room . |
| 8 | But Ven , she discovered , was not prepared to let her off the hook , and , ‘ Why … ’ he began to challenge , ‘ … when you 're honest , I know it , yet have begun on a path of deception to one particular end — why , when it 's so important to your sister whom — you love … ’ an alert look suddenly came to his eyes , and he broke off for a brief moment before continuing , his serious dark eyes holding hers ‘ … a sister whom you 'd do anything for , as you proved when you left England and came here — why are you ready to leave now , without another thought ? ’ |
| 9 | By six o'clock he was weary and bad tempered and he set out for home . |
| 10 | But Denis 's hopes took flight with the break-up of the Soviet empire and he set off for Russia this summer . |
| 11 | Naturally I agreed , and he set off for paris immediately with Ted Church as the UK observer . |