Example sentences of "he [vb past] for " in BNC.
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| 31 | Then , ignoring her indignant gasp , he made for the chest of drawers with the clear intention of searching that also . |
| 32 | He made for the door , sweeping out of the office with Rebecca in tow , stopping only to add as an afterthought , ‘ Ignore Rourke 's bad temper . |
| 33 | He made for the surgery , saying , lying in his teeth , ‘ I have some work to do , McAllister . |
| 34 | Then he was striding away from her , his boots echoing on the wooden boards as he made for the stairs . |
| 35 | He made for the travelling bookshop , where he found Jeffrey Archer sitting at a portable desk to one side of the bookstall . |
| 36 | He made for his aircraft , walking fast . |
| 37 | He made for the side exit , away from the man . |
| 38 | He pulled on a pair of folding sunglasses ( the sort you pay an extra load for to have ‘ Porsche ’ stamped across your field of vision ) as he made for the driver 's door , but even with them and the soft brown leather blouson jacket , which made him look a bit like an off-duty copper ( they get them cheap down Brick Lane ) , I still recognized him . |
| 39 | Penry smiled faintly as he made for the door . |
| 40 | It traces Alfie 's career on the field with Downpatrick and Ireland and his rise to the top of officialdom 's tree , highlighting the impact he made for essential change in promoting the game and in the need for better communication . |
| 41 | It traces Alfie 's career on the field with Downpatrick and Ireland and his rise to the top of officialdom 's tree , highlighting the impact he made for essential change in promoting the game and in the need for better communication . |
| 42 | His tongue hung from his mouth as he made for the south — and dust pothered up from his feet . |
| 43 | However he remains unseen because Sauron can not pierce the shadows he made for his own defence . |
| 44 | But I did n't like at all the er excuses he made for his wife . |
| 45 | ‘ After that he lived for our visits and started repeating ‘ Stroke , stroke , stroke ’ about six times . |
| 46 | When this second marriage broke down in 1963 , Simenon was already having an affair with another maid , Teresa Sburelin , with whom he lived for the rest of his life . |
| 47 | He lived for twenty years with the family as a lodger with meals included : ‘ he had a home with us , all those years . ’ |
| 48 | He lived for most of the time at his family seat at Laxton Hall , Northamptonshire , with his wife and only daughter , and frequented St. Saviour 's Church for the Deaf in London . |
| 49 | And while Toff claims his techniques are very much part of the English slipware tradition , his pots often look like something out of Africa , where he lived for several years . |
| 50 | He had broken more bones in his body riding horses that anyone she knew , yet he lived for his hunting . |
| 51 | He lived for his profession , so much so that , instead of limiting himself to examining the remains of bomb-blast victims , he attended the courses and lectures available only to a very few on bomb-making and disarming offered at Fort Halstead . |
| 52 | The man claims he was then taken to a boat on the Norfolk Broads , where he lived for two weeks , and then spent a week holed-up in a room at an unknown holiday camp . |
| 53 | He got him to hospital and the doctors said that he lived for 70 minutes , but he was dead by the time we got there . |
| 54 | Many of the pieces were purchased by Dubosc in Japan where he lived for the latter part of his life and much of his collection is now in the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco . |
| 55 | " It was one of my bitterest hours to see our leader , only just home , having to throw up the sponge in front of the men he lived for " . |
| 56 | Miguel joins us direct from BARCELONA , where he lived for several months . |
| 57 | He lived for his reunion with Elizabeth ; all that sustained him until then was the daily letter from his new wife waiting for him in his lodgings . |
| 58 | He lived for many years at Brockham , Betchworth , Surrey , and died there 10 April 1935 . |
| 59 | Although he lived for eleven more years , he did not stand again . |
| 60 | He lived for racing , and he , Fred Archer , and George Fordham [ qq.v. ] were considered the finest jockeys of their time . |