Example sentences of "he then [vb past] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He then served for three years as Secretary General of the Islamic Conference Organization . |
| 2 | In Cairo on Oct. 24 , he then went for one day to Damascus , meeting President Assad of Syria , and returned unexpectedly to Egypt on Oct. 26 . |
| 3 | He then worked for eighteen months in the Southampton naval works before returning to Glasgow late in 1891 as an assistant lecturer in naval architecture and marine engineering at the university , and it was soon after this that his intensive study of the design of bird-like gliders began . |
| 4 | He then worked for many years as a country doctor , during which time his son Robert nearly died from smallpox inoculation performed by a ‘ surgeon of his acquaintance ’ . |
| 5 | He then worked for three years for Alexander Cowan & Co. at Musselburgh Paper Mills . |