Example sentences of "his [noun] [verb] [adv prt] for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | His eyes lit up for a moment at that . |
| 2 | His eyes clouded over for a moment , and his voice became gruff . |
| 3 | ‘ He stayed in his room when his wife went off for a jaunt round Oxford , remember ? |
| 4 | Joseph had seen his grandfather dressed up for a sing-sing with a long white bone through this hole , forming a kind of false moustache each side of his nose . |
| 5 | Automatically , his hand went out for a chocolate biscuit . |
| 6 | John Piggott atoned for these scenes with a cool chip around the trunk of a mighty tree behind the 16th , his son holing out for a match-winning four when a six had threatened to open the door to the Betts . |
| 7 | This time our hero Kevin ( Culkin ) gets on the wrong plane as he and his family set out for a Christmas break in Miami . |