Example sentences of "he [vb past] for some [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Muttering incomprehensibly , he made for some bushes where he disappeared from Emily 's view . |
| 2 | Eventually he was taken into the West Sussex hospital and when Mr Smith visited him , he asked for some chlorodyne . |
| 3 | Feeling a little frightened of the dead body behind him in the cart , and depressed by the autumn fog , he stopped for some beer at a pub , where he met Jan Coggan and Laban Tall . |
| 4 | ’ He paid for some years and then ceased payment . |
| 5 | Doncaster 's RL team , he observed for some reason , was even worse than its footballers . |
| 6 | When he came out he worked for some years at a stud-farm at Henley ( Suffolk ) ; then he went back to smithing and worked for many years at Needham Market , a large village near Ipswich : |
| 7 | In 1898 he worked for some months in Naples on the evolution of small sharks , and then became a demonstrator in the natural history department of St Andrews University . |
| 8 | He talked for some time about a poet called Rimbo . |
| 9 | He listened for some time before judging it safe to tiptoe downstairs . |
| 10 | He lay for some minutes listening to the clatter of boots , slamming of doors and distant shouts before the snorts and squeals of armoured personnel carriers below his window made him realise this was far from normal and was , in fact , an Agile Blade . |
| 11 | He had for some time , in the instinctive darkness of his mind in which so many heterogeneous problems were circulating , been wondering how , in what undramatic , as it were casual , not yet significant context he might utter them . |
| 12 | R. A. Butler , one of the Conservative Party 's chief spokesmen on foreign affairs , stated in the House of Commons on 27 February 1947 that he had for some time regarded Korea ‘ as perhaps the greatest danger spot for peace in the Far East ’ . |
| 13 | He waited for some minutes , then , very quietly and carefully , he went back to the door of her dressing-room . |
| 14 | He waited for some sign of agreement from her but none came and he went on , ‘ It was something I found out . ’ |
| 15 | It was a decision which he regretted for some years , although within the university he proved an effective teacher and he was dean of the faculty of science from 1894 until 1913 . |
| 16 | ‘ Well , ’ he paused for some means of comparison . |
| 17 | In another passage our final text reads ‘ His words were as if meant for himself , but he spoke them aloud , and he continued for some time to look at his sister like a man perplexed . ’ |
| 18 | The magazine text brings in the paradox of public and yet as if private utterance : ‘ His words were as if spoken to himself , but he spoke them aloud , and he continued for some time to look at his sister like a man perplexed . ’ |
| 19 | He pondered for some seconds before speaking . |