Example sentences of "he [verb] for [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Slowly and methodically , he worked for about an hour on his correspondence , which included a letter from one of their major customers . |
| 2 | I think he once did say to me that he was very disturbed at how much ‘ coke ’ David was doing and that it had got to the point where he did n't hide it from deFries , whereas he did for quite a while at first . |
| 3 | He hesitated for only a moment , then glanced briefly at Alexandra and said , ‘ I should be happy to . ’ |
| 4 | When Bruce Bogtrotter had eaten his way through half of the entire enormous cake , he paused for just a couple of seconds and took several deep breaths . |
| 5 | He paused for only an instant . |