Example sentences of "[vb -s] he [adv prt] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said : ‘ The lad is torn politically because while their president is happy to let us have him on trial , the trainer wants him back for matches . |
| 2 | He had a bleeper in his house which wakes him up for every call though for insurance reasons he can not join the men . |
| 3 | It shuts him up for the time being , and I 'm not going to give him the satisfaction of thinking his insolence cuts any ice with me . |
| 4 | He has to compose around something , so his isolating ( once strident ) individualism sets him up for a Bowiesque plummet into British nationalism and a flirtation with racism with overtures to the Nazis . |
| 5 | ‘ Early on in that , the hero 's homeless and somebody puts him up for the night . ’ |