Example sentences of "he [vb -s] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | RORY Underwood makes his last appearance of the season at Twickenham today when he plays for the Royal Air Force against the Army in the crucial final match of this year 's Inter Service tournament . |
| 2 | But even then the East End of London could not have represented the rest of the country ; and even he plays for our pity , opening with a classic portrait of poverty and deprivation . |
| 3 | A player joining a new club during the close season or after the season starts will have to wait 30 days if joining a club two leagues higher or lower before he plays for that club in a Courage league game or 120 days if joining a club on the same level or one league higher or lower before he plays for that in a league game ; he waits 180 days if he is not a British passport holder . |
| 4 | A player joining a new club during the close season or after the season starts will have to wait 30 days if joining a club two leagues higher or lower before he plays for that club in a Courage league game or 120 days if joining a club on the same level or one league higher or lower before he plays for that in a league game ; he waits 180 days if he is not a British passport holder . |
| 5 | ‘ Whenever he plays for Arsenal , there always seems to be so much pressure on him . |
| 6 | ‘ Limpar could play for Arsenal again the way he plays for the national team if only Graham had more faith in him . |
| 7 | STEVE LLOYD , Moseley 's giant Uruguayan-born second row forward , is to be watched by Wales rugby union scout Terry Cobner when he plays for the Barbarians against Leicester on Boxing Day . |
| 8 | Officials of the club he plays for , Brynamman , contacted the WRU yesterday to explain his position after speaking to him . |
| 9 | He plays for Western Suburbs against Newcastle in Sunday 's Winfield Cup play-offs . |
| 10 | He plays for the Rand Afrikaans University in Johannesburg and is a certainty for Transvaal . |
| 11 | ‘ He plays for a mixed side in his spare time and is well up with the rules which is pretty useful because they seem to change every couple of months . ’ |
| 12 | The Lithuanian back division , as Liubinskas was a little suspect against Northern Ireland but this was primarily due to the absence of 32-year-old central defender Vlacheslavas Sukristovas who was unable to obtain a visa from Israel where he plays for Maccabi Netanya . |
| 13 | He plays for the Whitehaven Tennis Club and is involved in their purchase of new tennis courts . |
| 14 | Nearer home , he is a stalwart of the chess club at his present school , Yarm School junior department , and he plays for Stokesley in the senior division of the chess league . |
| 15 | The sooner Wilson returns , however , the better it will be not only for the teams he plays for but for all of us . |
| 16 | He is 16 — around the age Roy was when he became a star — and he plays for the Melchester youth team . |
| 17 | plays on , he plays for the first team normally I think . |
| 18 | He plays for Rovers now . |
| 19 | well the thing is I mean he plays for England under twenty ones |
| 20 | Before losing out to Northampton who were bullies , I was at that match at Buckingham Road and I thought they were bullies , especially Bobby Barnes , not the wrestler , used to play for West Ham , but he plays for Northampton now , he 's gone now , but they were , they , they were naughty . |
| 21 | As he is a very busy person he begs for your report to be in note form listing the public to be reached and the media you select . |
| 22 | Catching sight of her , the boy Charles — see him now ! — wants To follow his father 's model : he asks , he begs for a keen horse , Urgently demands weapons , quiver and swift arrows , And craves to go chasing after the doe , just as his father himself would do . |
| 23 | ‘ He goes for his first walk at 10am . |
| 24 | He goes for walks with the boys and they talk about fishing and tractors . ’ |
| 25 | The neighbour might say : ‘ He goes for her something shocking , but she sticks him because of the kids . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ He goes for long walks , ’ said Betty mundanely . |
| 27 | ‘ Is that the normal length of time he goes for ? ’ |
| 28 | But here 's Rozario Gemmell Black Pearce is up in support but he goes for the long ball in and Hill met it first . |
| 29 | If you go to , your master 's away cu say he 's gone to race meeting and it takes two day , they 're going to be up at , say Ascot , more likely he goes for the week . |
| 30 | He 's a very bright man , Michael Howard , but it 's quite clear that he 's much more concerned with grabbing the headlines and finding scapegoats , than with taking action through law that will actually improve the chance , both of preventing crime and of detecting crime , and then even more so , deterring people from re-offending , and it 's most distressing to see that when research showed that a particular non-custodial method of punishment is effective in perhaps fifty or seventy or eighty percent of cases , whereas prison is not , he goes for prison , he goes for picking on squatters , he goes for picking on the defendants right to silence so that we can see more people like er , jailed when they were innocent . |