Example sentences of "[verb] his [noun sg] [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Opening his mouth to cry for help , he — ! |
| 2 | Yet despite admitting that would love to play for New Zealand , and that he had no intention of using his Scottish connections when he first came to play in Britain , McIntosh fiercely defends his right to play for Scotland . |
| 3 | Manville poked a ten-dollar bill through the driver 's window as he alighted , keeping his palm extended for the full change . |
| 4 | Well , he now has his stepmother to thank for the beautiful house that has been restored to look as it did in the 18th century . |
| 5 | His fingers scraping , Nicholas let his mind dwell for a moment on fuses . |
| 6 | This African talked of his own change of heart , his vision of God 's multi-racial world , of which Rhodesia is a part ; of how he himself had hated the whites , and had now shed his hate to work for what is right for all . |
| 7 | John Angus Macrae , a fireman at Stornoway Airport , told his wife to telephone for the fire brigade and he went to offer assistance . |
| 8 | The Department of Trade opposed his application to sue for damages . |
| 9 | The father 's had his house repossessed for not paying the mortgage . |
| 10 | At least one exceedingly wet Old Etonian baronet ( oh , all right then : Sir George Young ) has received a rude note from another even wetter Old Etonian baronet ( yes , you 're right : Sir Ian Gilmour ) deploring his decision to vote for Mrs Thatcher . |
| 11 | The General , scenting victor , turned his horse to search for the infantry Colonel who had refused to attack the bridge and whose military career was therefore finished . |
| 12 | The smooth-phrased B.B.C. announcer , the amusing don , the self-confident politician , the jargon-perfect critic , the editor of the literary magazine — all are reducible within a few months to a bewildered defensive creature with hollow cheeks and desperate eyes whose only cares will be to see that he gets his fair share of the potato ration , that nobody steals his bed boards , and that he exchanges his cigarette ends for food or vice versa at the best possible price . |
| 13 | He could n't bear to hear his mother mourn for her loss so continued to visit infrequently , leaving the main responsibility to his sister , who genuinely mourned her father . |
| 14 | On May 8 Martin Shikuku , interim secretary-general of the party , declared his intention to stand for the presidency . |
| 15 | David Carlson did n't really like his daughter staying for hours at the Davis 's . |
| 16 | I mean Tina 's worried now , she 's got his mother coming for christmas for a fortnight . |
| 17 | Bus driver with a friendly charm is Britain 's best A bus driver thought he was in trouble when a stranger telephoned his manager asking for his name . |
| 18 | And in any case , if he recovered he 'd spend his life looking for Vecchi , if that party had muscled in on the black . |
| 19 | One of the members [ almost certainly Francis Maginn ] intended to urge the adoption of the word " deaf " only at the Congress , but seeing that it would only cause much loss of time to no purpose he allowed his motion to drop for the present . |
| 20 | She hoped such mundane matters would keep his mind occupied for a good while , because , if he ever discovered how helplessly she had responded to him , Isabel knew she would die of humiliation . |
| 21 | He even expressed his willingness to act for the police in the future , if needed . |
| 22 | Occasionally the builder may raise minor maintenance problems to justify his failure to pay for work executed or to release retention . |
| 23 | Following a tremendous start to this term , the one-time journeyman has pronounced his determination to go for the title . |
| 24 | — and then find no way to put his knowledge to use for his people . |
| 25 | Chavez spent his life fighting for the migrant Latino labourers who toil in California 's dusty vineyards and lettuce fields . |
| 26 | He spent his time looking for a Jewish homeland that was not Palestine . |
| 27 | Bayern Munich , Tottenham , Aston Villa , Chelsea and Everton were all linked with Hughes — as Fergie spent his time searching for a new goal star . |
| 28 | I heard his voice stop for a moment and then he went on . |
| 29 | They are hatching a plan for Bruno to fight the new champion in China or London next spring , leaving Lewis to pursue his right to fight for the unified title through the American courts . |
| 30 | Councillors stayed for the entire show to make sure nothing untoward occurred , which meant SIMON DUDFIELD had to keep his fly buttoned for once . |