Example sentences of "he [vb -s] [adv] for the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | GARY ARMSTRONG will take another giant step towards reviving his Scotland career when he lines up for the Barbarians at Leicester on December 28 . |
| 2 | So neither one has a right to a decision in his or her favour , and the judge must decide the case according to whichever rule he thinks best for the future , all things considered . |
| 3 | He lives only for the moment , and he is already a changed man . |
| 4 | They usually give him a 20 pence piece and he heads straight for the bar to buy his favourite ready-salted snack . |
| 5 | long time see , see such an impression of dodgy back acting , poor old William Roche who plays Ken Barlow in Coronation Street has been moaning and groaning and wincing and rising in the most frightful and indeed the most convincing of manners , he has even for the match of the |
| 6 | It is unknown to find any subject of Her Majesty who does not say , when asked , that he cares passionately for the Health Service , and believes that more money should be spent on it . |
| 7 | In fact , ultimately ( as " the most honest theoretical man " , Lessing , perceived ) he cares more for the search after truth than for truth itself . |
| 8 | I fully agree with my noble and learned friend 's observation that the dictum in Morris has led to confusion and complication where those in de facto control have been charged with theft from a company and I , too , consider , on the basis ( which he assumes only for the sake of argument ) that the Morris dictum is correct , that it would be wrong , when a person who by virtue of his position in the company constitutes ‘ the directing mind and will of the company ’ is accused of stealing from the company , to acquit that person on the ground that , in his capacity as the company , he has consented to the taking ( by himself ) of the company 's property , with the result that no appropriation , and therefore no theft , has occurred . |
| 9 | HOW sickening that President Bush has to fend off allegations of a long-ago affair as he gears up for the US election . |
| 10 | He stays there for the hour or so that is necessary for all the tadpoles to emerge and then returns to his hole . |
| 11 | Anyone who drinks 2½ pints of beer or ½ bottle of wine and then drives a car is almost certainly breaking the law unless he waits patiently for the liver to reduce blood alcohol levels . |
| 12 | ‘ He bends over for the SS , ’ said the mummy 's cap-wearing friend , making an obscene fist , ‘ you can tell . |
| 13 | Finally , exhausted and irritable , he gives in for the sake of peace . |
| 14 | The voice he puts on for the customers , you would think he was in daily contact with the Lord Mayor or the Duke . |
| 15 | He gets up early in the morning , saddles his ass , cuts the wood for the sacrifice , and taking two young servants and Isaac with him , he sets off for the place of which God has told him . |
| 16 | He makes up for the boredom and emptiness of his own life by creating a dramatic emotional triangle for these puppets of his imagination , only to realise finally that his puppets are dancing to quite another tune . |
| 17 | However , he argues strongly for the claim that successful handling of aggressive impulses is culturally possible ( see also his paper in this volume ) . |
| 18 | ‘ Do you think his parents are going to be happy when he comes home for the holidays with a scar the length of his face ? ’ |