Example sentences of "he [verb] [adv] for [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well I suppose with him going out for walks from here he knows that |
| 2 | When Meredith asked him to pop out for cigarettes , he replied vulgarly , ‘ What did your last servant die of ? ’ |
| 3 | ‘ Doubtless he visits the alehouse when he goes in for supplies . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ Yes , he sits there for hours , he thinks . ’ |
| 5 | Should he sweep her into his arms and kiss the daylights out of her first , or should he slow down for explanations ? |
| 6 | The subsequent televised hearings exposed no Communist infiltrators , and made plain to millions the viciousness of McCarthy as he cast about for victims . |
| 7 | His knees ached as he knelt there for hours . |
| 8 | The Finn also threatened in the air when he came in for headers at the back post . |
| 9 | He rooted around for survivors but there were none . |
| 10 | While no one objects to him chasing the girls a bit ( the roads are safe enough and drivers know him and avoid him ) , he stays away for days on end and is obviously getting into scraps with other dogs — presumably male rivals who 've beaten the same path to the bitches ' doors ! |
| 11 | Boussena 's tour coincided with a series of visits by Sa'adoun Hammadi , Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister , to Kuwait , Qatar , Saudi Arabia and the UAE , during which he pressed vigorously for cuts in production to be implemented . |
| 12 | He walked around for weeks wired to a police tape recorder , and spent hours admitting his past indiscretions to investigators in the US and UK in an outpouring probably not rivalled since Don Juan went into the confessional . |
| 13 | He looked carefully for antagonisms and smoothed them out as unobtrusively as possible . |
| 14 | She heard his voice downstairs , talking in the rather affected boom he put on for strangers . |
| 15 | Time and again Gould was lowered over the side of the ship in a little dinghy at the command of the accommodating Captain , by name , appropriately , of Mallard , where he floated happily for hours among his birds . |
| 16 | ‘ He puts in for grants for bands and things like that . |
| 17 | To contend under these circumstances that Jesus was a feminist , or that he spoke out for women , must imply a very low estimate of what being a feminist ( or speaking out for women ) might mean . |
| 18 | And he , he sat there for ages |