Example sentences of "he [verb] [adv prt] for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well we 're gon na try get him to go out for a drink er one evening with that tape recorder so we 're gon na record the conversation on the side of that . |
| 2 | I ask him to come down for a few days and I also invite Lady De Marr . |
| 3 | I felt him go off for a few seconds . |
| 4 | I ca n't see him sitting down for a quiet civilized three cornered discussion . ’ |
| 5 | This hooking action is important because it interferes with the opponent 's attempts to free his arm and keeps him closed off for a longer period . |
| 6 | He goes in for a sort of hall-of-mirrors self-impersonation , telling people how he would have done the murder if he had done it ( which he has ) . |
| 7 | The next morning he goes out for a walk round the town . |
| 8 | He looks around for a moment , pleased as punch , then realizes that his fellow group members have all heard it a dozen times before . |
| 9 | All Cantona would say as he headed off for a quick trip to Paris before preparing for Sunday 's derby clash was : ‘ I enjoyed my debut . ’ |
| 10 | Finding himself with nine months to kill between school and university he cast round for a job . |
| 11 | Blanche 's question woke Dexter from his reverie and he cast around for a photograph of Nicola in the room . |
| 12 | He cast around for a chair , shoved some papers aside with a foot and perched on the edge of an armchair . |
| 13 | Smiling awkwardly , he cast around for a topic of conversation that was n't personal and had difficulty in finding one . |
| 14 | Ockleton described a sweeping circuit of the room , missing all the many obstacles in his path without apparently noticing them , and finished by the window , where he peered out for a full minute or so at the view it commanded of a blank gable-end and half the dome of the Radcliffe Camera . |
| 15 | He wandered around for a while and ran into a few of the household busy with their duties . |
| 16 | He wandered around for a couple of hours having chats with any of the old fellows who were around the place . ’ |
| 17 | Strachan was inspirational , and his goal was the highlight of the match — running at the defence , he twisted through for a fine shot about fifteen yards out . |
| 18 | He came up for a few days and stayed in Mackay 's Hotel in Ardallt . |
| 19 | He came in for a chat the other day and said , oh how you getting on ? |
| 20 | He drove on for a few minutes , the headlights cleaving a way through the darkness . |
| 21 | He turned up for a remand hearing at Redbridge court covered in baby oil to make it difficult for warders to grab hold of him . |
| 22 | He frowned down for a few moments at the damp patch on the matting at his feet , then he shook his head , as if ridding himself of some unwelcome thought , and looked up at me again . |
| 23 | Anyway , he waffled on for a little while about everything that did n't matter and then … ’ she swallowed ‘ … then he got down to it and told me about everything that did . ’ |
| 24 | After some years in theatrical revue and improvisational comedy in the Second City troupe in Chicago , he gained wide fame when he teamed up for a double act with Elaine May from 1957 to 1961 , before becoming a successful Broadway director . |
| 25 | He bumbled around for a bit , trying to coil up the string and push the wood into tidy heaps . |
| 26 | Perhaps he popped out for a quick sandwich while Nigel read ? |
| 27 | He walked on for a few yards , stooped and picked something up . |
| 28 | Logie and Dujon were steering the game their way when Dujon was bowled as he stepped back for a cover drive , and that was the turning point . |
| 29 | Whatever his personal misgivings , Valenzuela hid them well and when his compulsory military service ended he signed on for a permanent career in the Air Force . |
| 30 | He signed up for a ten-week ‘ twilight ’ course in order to ‘ remedy this deficiency ’ . |