Example sentences of "then he [verb] for a [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Then he paused for a moment .
2 He keeps calling in till he 's acknowledged , then he asks for a road report .
3 I told him of the plight of all the refugees on the station , then he thought for a minute and said , ‘ Well , I 'm running a camp at the moment , and have over a thousand in it , but I 'm sure we can squash you all in somehow . ’
4 Then he thought for a moment , and began to smile .
5 pulls on his trunks then he swims for a while , gets out , takes off his trunks , puts his towel round himself , rubs himself , walks round the pool a couple of times and rubs himself
6 Then he fumbled for a cigarette , lit it clumsily , and sat drawing in smoke as if it were a narcotic .
7 In semi-darkness , she waited , hearing the sound of a key grating against metal , and then he fumbled for a moment , muttering to himself in Italian .
8 Then he sat for a while on the aisle stand which was a box covering the auto-pilot , where he was able to look out through the nose .
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