Example sentences of "he [vb past] [verb] for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was sitting just a matter of inches away , when he moved to reach for a coffee-cup she caught the smell of freshly washed hair , and her fingers itched with the memory of tangling themselves in those jet-black waves . |
| 2 | At a corner he stopped to wait for a break in the traffic . |
| 3 | He stopped speaking for a moment , like a man walking who comes to a brink ; perhaps it was an artful pause , but it made the stars , the night , seem to wait , as if story , narration , history , lay imbricated in the nature of things ; and the cosmos was for the story , not the story for the cosmos . |
| 4 | Even his genetic code was noted , from when he 'd applied for a work permit , but no matter how subtly Reynard interrogated , no matter how bright his ideas of lateral interrogation , every time he drew blank . |
| 5 | After that , he 'd headed for a street in north-west London that he had n't visited in over a year . |
| 6 | It was a request from a colleague : he 'd be grateful if she could cast her eye over an article he 'd written for a quarterly journal , by Friday if possible . |
| 7 | Well he told me he 'd gone for a count |
| 8 | He said he 'd gone for a count for a job |
| 9 | And although her slenderness gave her an air of fragility , Guy had felt the gentle curves of her body when he 'd searched for a concealed weapon . |
| 10 | He fell asleep , but hours later he woke up and felt again — as he 'd felt for a moment in the hall when he 'd arrived — that he should n't be in this house . |
| 11 | He 'd thought for a moment that the fates had it in for him . |
| 12 | Gorelli , he 'd won for a while , but now he was losing , and he was losing big . |
| 13 | Was he going to give her some note on performance , some idea he 'd had for a new bit of business in the play ? |
| 14 | It was as if , having goaded her to the point of total capitulation , he 'd opted for a wary cooling-off period . |
| 15 | He bought groceries to last him the week , then popped next door to the frame shop to pick up the stainless steel frame he 'd ordered for a James Barker black and white print he 'd obtained in an auction some weeks before . |
| 16 | He seemed to hesitate for a moment . |
| 17 | He seemed to hesitate for a moment . |
| 18 | He seemed destined for a career as an engineer like his father , but with much brighter prospects . |
| 19 | He began working for a master 's degree , studying the language of medieval petitions in the Public Record Office . |
| 20 | He began to look for a safe stance for the night … |
| 21 | His pacifism was couched in the violent language of subversion and revolution , and long before 1917 he began to look for a distinctive Scottish way out of the war . |
| 22 | He began to look for a job . |
| 23 | But it was when he began finding the 26 mile 385 yard distance — which he can complete in two hours and 57 minutes — ‘ about right for starters ’ , that he began to look for a new challenge . |
| 24 | The second day he started looking for a house to rent . |
| 25 | He started racing for a small local manufacturer . |
| 26 | He had , in fact , just left me on a bench in a nearby park where we had spent some time together before he decided to go for a stroll . |
| 27 | He did not feel that he would want to return to university , so he decided to apply for an unclassed ‘ War Honours ’ degree — ‘ probably not worth the paper it 's written on ’ , but perhaps enough to get him started in some profession , such as colonial service or , possibly , journalism ; he rather liked the idea of becoming a parliamentary correspondent for a newspaper . |
| 28 | Having got the company going , he decided to look for an accountant . |
| 29 | He went looking for a gas leak with a lighted match . ’ |
| 30 | He managed to sleep for a couple of hours , then rose and wandered off to Franco 's bar to see if Maidstone was there . |