Example sentences of "he [modal v] [vb infin] for a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Alternatively , he may provide for a change in the method of rent review , and if this is done it is usual to revert to the more traditional method of periodic reviews to market rent . |
| 2 | Someone unkindly suggested he should audition for a part in Jaws as a fish . |
| 3 | He should think for a moment what that means . |
| 4 | Maybe he should go for a contract killing . |
| 5 | And he said if Rocastle felt he had no future at Leeds he should ask for a transfer . |
| 6 | In 1901 , he accepted the post of Missioner to the Deaf and Dumb in Oxford ; it was here that an undergraduate suggested he should try for a University degree at Oxford , but permission was refused . |
| 7 | But he must wait for a fitness check on club record signing Don Goodman before finalising his line-up . |
| 8 | If the defendant makes a payment in without having obtained a certificate of total benefit he must apply for a certificate on the same day . |
| 9 | However , he 's a trooper and that means the show must go on , so he 'll rest for a while at home , but hopes to be back singing and dancing by Christmas . |
| 10 | As it is he 'll limp for a month . ’ |
| 11 | Or he might aim for a minority government dependent on the votes of six Arab members of the Knesset . |
| 12 | He thought and then said easily , " She was wondering whether there was a chance he might ask for a transfer now that Howarth has been in post a year . |
| 13 | He might read for a while but he would not come downstairs , would not hear anything if she were quiet . |
| 14 | Four friends will be keeping pace with him on the ground , carrying all the spares he might need for a flight which is expected to last for a month . |
| 15 | He could pass for a European , an Italian or a Frenchman from one of the Southern regions , like Provence . |
| 16 | He could pass for a native of Sweden certainly , and probably of Norway and of Denmark . |
| 17 | Or he could go for a referendum . |
| 18 | The employees were occasionally terrified of Bernard ‘ as if he had one over him , ’ as they described it , but they all knew that however much he might stamp and shout while the anger lasted , he could go for a walk and come back as if nothing had happened . |
| 19 | By biding his time in the immediate aftermath of Mao 's death , he could prepare for a rise to power in the CCP . |
| 20 | My words , he could qualify for a part in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat , it 's really something . |
| 21 | In my view the idea of his being monkish , or that he could have for a moment dreamt of entering a monastery , is not to be entertained , despite the claim of the Reverend William Levy in his Memoir . |
| 22 | If it were a cart then he could ask for a lift and go to the city where there was shelter and plenty to eat . |
| 23 | If there was general agreement , he could ask for a suspension of Anglo-Irish conference meetings from next month , beginning talks before the summer recess . |
| 24 | Almost 70 years ago someone else turned up here , a teacher from Camus 's school , to ask Albert 's mother if he could try for a scholarship to attend high school . |
| 25 | He could relax for a while . |
| 26 | There is nothing in these two pieces that Eckard could not have written , but the sketchiness and even abruptness of their construction , the unenterprising harmony , and the lack of textural variety suggest that , if he did compose them , he dashed them off as fast as he could write for a pupil of little talent and not much discrimination . |
| 27 | Er I 've known er one bloke he , he 'd send for a pint of Shipstons beer when it was sixpence a pint , and then he 'd send for another pint and he 'd be drunk , or , or he 'd be ready f to fight anybody that wanted to fight him . |
| 28 | Then he 'd sit for a while , occasionally glancing at the figure next to him , until at last he 'd lean towards the other 's ear . |
| 29 | He 'd play for a hour or two , then leave . |
| 30 | And you know what he 'd have for a treat ? |