Example sentences of "[adv] he [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Suddenly he reached for her . |
| 2 | A chef in Saratoga Springs exasperated by a difficult customer complaining that his french fries were not sliced thinly enough cut the potatoes paper thin ; the irony was that the customer enjoyed the delicacy so much he asked for more and thus crisps were born . |
| 3 | apparently he paid for his |
| 4 | Perhaps he expected some protest from Constanza , a declaration , perhaps he hoped for it . |
| 5 | If he 's not there , perhaps he went for a walk in the grounds ? ’ |
| 6 | A grin of flashing white teeth was all he got for his trouble . |
| 7 | That was all he prayed for . |
| 8 | I do n't know whether Mr Palmer read my thoughts — but it was a tight hole and there was a need for accuracy — but sure enough he opted for a 1-iron . |
| 9 | So he reached for his number one club-stick |
| 10 | Like yeah , because like about what he did you know he was staying up with and all this and like giving him money and looking after Andrew so he goes for my parents Jimmy 's really nice . |
| 11 | So he waited for perhaps eight seconds before replying . |
| 12 | And so he waited for these really rather unexpected people to explain what they required , and hoped he would be able to do whatever it was . |
| 13 | So he made for the Jackley road from which nearly all the traffic had now disappeared . |
| 14 | Ice on the north coast of Spitsbergen made it impossible to pass Amsterdam Island , and so he made for Franz Josef Land , discovered only in 1873–4 , and partly mapped . |
| 15 | So he settled for a secure telephone call , indifferent to what that would do to Maxim 's reputation among the Defence Staff at the embassy . |
| 16 | So he stood for ten minutes at the window watching soldiers tossing bundles of equipment into the gurg-ling FV 432s parked around the parade ground and feeling the deep contentment of seeing other people working very hard very early in the day . |
| 17 | Once inside he groped for the sheets in his pocket . |
| 18 | Soon he asked for payment and William complied . |
| 19 | Desperately he looked for a way up the river bank . |
| 20 | Later still he became for a short time a professor at Cambridge . |
| 21 | But still he searched for ways to bring the conversation round to Tace . |
| 22 | As always he waited for Garry to decide what games were to be played . |
| 23 | Time and again Lear tried to tempt Gould to visit him in Rome ; always he pleaded for a letter : ‘ I am anxious to hear from you … ; |
| 24 | Thereafter he lived for society and gossip , projecting a ‘ History of his Times ’ , the materials of which were to be his long , delightfully observant letters to his favourite stepdaughter , Elizabeth Ord . |
| 25 | Yesterday he smiled for the last time and said he did not wish to obstruct the work of Prime Minister Hans Modrow — who now constitutes , with a small group of associates from Dresden , the only remaining acceptable face of reform within the East German Communist Party . |
| 26 | The more he required her to talk about herself the more he longed for her to ask him about himself . |
| 27 | At 8.30 p.m. he asked for his lawyer . |
| 28 | In 1763 he was paid off and two years later he embarked for India . |
| 29 | Hours later he reached for the bedside table again . |
| 30 | A year later he worked for six months for the Eastern Health and Social Services Board in the Belfast area . |