Example sentences of "he [verb] for an [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Team captain Linford Christie will lead from the front as he goes for an unprecedented fourth successive 100m crown , while Colin Jackson ( 110m hurdles ) and Eamonn Martin ( 10,000m ) are also selected as defending champions . |
| 2 | Obviously unwilling , he asked for an absurd sum for doing so , but eventually Omar settled with him for a reasonable amount . |
| 3 | He asked for an Irish song of love and loss . |
| 4 | He asked for an urgent meeting with Colonel Easterhouse . |
| 5 | When he asked for an artificial leg for his newly amputated right leg he was told not only that he could n't have one , but he 'd also have to give up his existing left false leg , which he 'd had for six years . |
| 6 | He stopped for an early beer at a roadside pub in Surrey , then dropped the car off in its lock-up garage and strolled to a cafe for lunch . |
| 7 | ‘ Go ! ’ she hissed at Ember , but he stopped for an agonizing moment to cover her better . |
| 8 | By adopting a text-based approach he searches for an explicit and comprehensive communicative theory which can account for the psychological effects created by poetic texts . |
| 9 | He campaigned for an integrated study of Christian philosophy , history , literature , and art in the same way as literae humaniores had studied every aspect of classical culture . |
| 10 | In 1934 he joined the Irish Independent , with whom he worked for an eventful 50 years , latterly as its northern political editor . |
| 11 | Later , after four years in detention during the Mau Mau Emergency , he worked for an Indian workshop in Nairobi establishing himself as the pioneer manufacturer of bicycle carriers and foreguards . |
| 12 | He called for an Arab order " far removed from the stains of oil , consumerism and tyranny " and attacked " those Arabs " who were " motivated by tribal affiliation and arrogance " and who had " flooded the nation with their oil and bragged about their seats which were restored at the hands of the foreigner and with its lances stained with the blood of their brothers " . |
| 13 | In Wilson 's first defeat by a British competitor over this distance for 2½ years the two swam neck and neck for just over half the race before Akers suddenly pulled ahead as he searched for an Olympic qualifying time . |
| 14 | Mr Kearsley said he hoped for an out-of-court settlement . |
| 15 | He had made a detour to a cafe where he stayed for an unspecified time before walking to the Post and entering by the back door , discovering the mayhem in the newsroom and retreating to the printer 's office . |