Example sentences of "he [vb -s] for the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He plays for the Whitehaven Tennis Club and is involved in their purchase of new tennis courts . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ Limpar could play for Arsenal again the way he plays for the national team if only Graham had more faith in him . |
| 4 | But here 's Rozario Gemmell Black Pearce is up in support but he goes for the long ball in and Hill met it first . |
| 5 | He has one rig in our room , another one in dad 's car and a third in the big truck he drives for the frozen meat company . |
| 6 | To ask the Minister for the Arts what plans he has for the European arts festival ; and if he will make a statement . |
| 7 | To ask the Minister for the Arts , what plans he has for the European arts festival ; — |
| 8 | In the case of natural language , natives ' pre-formal agreement on the boundaries of grammatical division is the most important kind of evidence the linguist can glean as he searches for the grammatical recipes and ingredients of sentence meaning . |
| 9 | Hankin could bring in another new face as he prepares for the 15-match survival fight . |
| 10 | Sheffield Wednesday 's John Harkes is one of five players with European clubs wanted by United States coach Bora Milutinovic as he prepares for the friendly match against Ireland in Dublin on April 29 . |
| 11 | With this in position he waits for the right moment to switch through the distance shot film of the city , coupled with the live action inlay of the characters . |
| 12 | Yet he can still play for his former club while he waits for the clearing period to expire . |
| 13 | Not surprisingly , he falls for the doll-like punk , Pris , who later masquerades as a mannikin to elude and then surprise Deckard , whom she nearly kills before he finally ‘ retires ’ her . |
| 14 | He pays for the additional units but he values them at only . |
| 15 | He argues for the classical form of government ; to rest on political apathy he believes ‘ is a way of preserving liberty by castrating it ’ . |
| 16 | He gropes for the apt phrase ; it is considered bad form here to use words like ‘ hellish ’ . |