Example sentences of "[verb] him [verb] for [art] [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 | The ‘ plot ’ has him searching for the lost chord , which is about as banal as you can get , but the contributors look interesting George Harrison , Charlie Rich , Betty Wright , John Sebastian , Rufus Thomas and Billy Swan are among them . |
| 3 | Harry signed for Palace after Manager Edmund Goodman had seen him play for the amateur side , Kingstonian , in a Surrey Charity Shield Final at The Nest early in the summer of 1921 , when Palace had just won promotion to Division 2 . |
| 4 | The society claims that there are ‘ cosmic masters ’ in the universe and that they have come ‘ to give priceless teachings to man to help him prepare for the New World and to bring a great millennium of peace ’ . |
| 5 | When he first came into the Hampshire team , Greenidge 's natural inclination was to attack every ball , and it was Richards more than anyone who taught him restraint , taught him to wait for the bad ball . |
| 6 | ( 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 ) . |
| 7 | Controllers urged him to make for a remote runway which would take him over fields and small villages . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | I 've never known him go for the skinny boyish type before . ’ |
| 10 | Among those who were reported to have declined to be considered was New York Governor Mario Cuomo , one of the party 's most charismatic figures , who had earlier resisted a powerful campaign to induce him to run for the presidential nomination . |
| 11 | Although she had come to dislike Dr McNab , believing him to have been indirectly responsible for her father 's death , she remained constantly at his side , helping him to care for the sick and wounded . |
| 12 | It made him long for the open fields of the island , again . |
| 13 | In any event , before the disastrous situation which sent him to jail for a short period , I had one other encounter . |
| 14 | That left him deciding for a long time which club to use for his third shot . |
| 15 | Now I see him scramble for the fallen gun . |
| 16 | Serafin knows now why Summerchild was so reluctant to let him see this place and so anxious to make him settle for the dingy remoteness of Northumberland Avenue . |