Example sentences of "[verb] he [verb] for a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She asks him to recognize his father 's wisdom in trying to encourage him to work for a steady position and shares his anxiety about delays with Blackwoods , over the publication of The Woodland Life . |
| 2 | A laborious internal review of the Long-Term Costing is undertaken to whittle down the gap , and to highlight vulnerable programmes so that the Secretary of State can be given the strongest possible brief to help him fight for a higher allocation of resources ; and conversely to enable him to fend off attacks by other high-spending ministers , who are intent on grabbing a larger share for themselves , often at the expense of Defence . |
| 3 | The man claimed he spoke for a large group of serving and former policemen who styled themselves ‘ the Inner Circle ’ . |
| 4 | ( vii ) Where the chairman holds a proxy requiring him to vote for a particular resolution , if no one else proposes that resolution , he must do so unless he considers that there is good reason for not doing so ( r 6.89 ) . |
| 5 | Controllers urged him to make for a remote runway which would take him over fields and small villages . |
| 6 | She often urged him to look for a suitable girl , but he always replied that there was plenty of time and to date no one had taken his fancy . |
| 7 | Shufflebotham watched him work for a few moments . |
| 8 | However , his abiding passion for collecting recipes and formulas kept him experimenting for a further twenty years , perfecting the transfer-printing process . |
| 9 | In any event , before the disastrous situation which sent him to jail for a short period , I had one other encounter . |
| 10 | I mean he came for a flying visit and he went back did n't he ? he came for a flying visit and went back |
| 11 | In the case of Professor Fang Lizhi , the dissident leader who is still holed up in the US embassy in Beijing , Mr Bush has been unable to say when or whether the Chinese may allow him to leave for a third country , as reportedly urged by Mr Scowcroft . |
| 12 | Mr Ingram drives a company car , so the banding changes making that more expensive will probably persuade him to go for a smaller model . |
| 13 | That left him deciding for a long time which club to use for his third shot . |