Example sentences of "he [verb] for an [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He applied for an MRC scholarship in clinical research at the Gustave-Roussy after seeing the application papers in a friend 's office . |
| 2 | His wages in 1780 were 20 shillings ( £1 ) a week and he asked for an increase to 2 guineas ( £2.10 ) a week . |
| 3 | He shouted for an ostler , tied Nosey to a metal ring on the stableyard wall and gave the dog a bowl of water before , carrying his map and weapons , he limped into the silent house . |
| 4 | He is also trying to find a manufacturer for a porcelain razor he designed for an exhibition in New York . |
| 5 | He paled for an instant , thinking perhaps that his socks had slid down , but they had n't . |
| 6 | He paid for an underpass beneath the main road which now separates Monet 's house in Giverny from its famous garden . |
| 7 | On the advice of Lyell and Hooker he arranged for an account of his own theory to be published alongside Wallace 's paper by the Linnean Society of London . |
| 8 | At the end of the week she discovered he worked for an average of 1 minute at a time . |
| 9 | ‘ Sit down ! ’ he snarled for an answer . |
| 10 | He called for an inquiry into why a Madonna compact disc sells for the equivalent of £6.88 wholesale and £8.33 retail in the US compared with £13 and £15 in Britain . |
| 11 | Li Ximing , a politburo member and senior CCP official for Beijing , published an article in the Beijing Daily of July 14 in which he called for an acceleration of economic reform along capitalist lines . |
| 12 | He talked for an hour . |
| 13 | In 1940 he fell for an actor who was his lover for two years before joining the navy in 1942 . |
| 14 | He dozed for an hour until a warm , furry body slid under his hand , ‘ Good evening , Bonaventure ! ’ he whispered . |
| 15 | Put very simply , the retailer 's profit is the difference between the price he pays for an item ( cost price ) and the price he charges the customer . |
| 16 | He had pulled a hamstring during his warm-up and had done well to patrol as relentlessly as he did for an hour . |
| 17 | His delivery was extraordinarily good and , though he spoke for an hour and a half I should think , his voice never failed him and every word was clear — and bold . |
| 18 | Robert half-expected the whole cycle to start again , so long had he waited for an answer to this question . |
| 19 | He waited for an answer , then he whispered the words of forgiveness . |
| 20 | The horse galloped madly round the pen , head turned to the outside as he searched for an opening . |
| 21 | If I want to talk personally with my father about something and am admitted to him , he talks for an hour about something or other and then the time of the talk is over and I have not been able to say what I had wanted to say . |
| 22 | The author of The Jovial Cutlers , Joseph Mather , was himself a working cutler and he wrote for an audience of his fellows . |
| 23 | He paused for an instant . |
| 24 | He paused for an instant . |
| 25 | He paused for an instant and then stepped inside . |
| 26 | He paused for an instant , just long enough for her to register the warning reflected in his eyes . |
| 27 | He paused for an instant . |
| 28 | He paused for an instant before continuing , ‘ I wo n't be contesting your claim for custody . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ He works for an oil company . |
| 30 | Our two children , Virginia and Peter were born during the war and after Franklin was demobbed in 1946 we moved to Peterborough where he works for an engineering company . |