Example sentences of "[vb -s] his [noun] [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | This runs freely at the end of the lyric composition as finally the speaker explicitly asserts his capacity to sing for love . |
| 5 | And when someone indicates his willingness to work for them they naturally suspect he is a plant . |
| 6 | Invariably the butt of the family joker , he leaves his wife clamouring for an image maker for a husband . |
| 7 | For the same reasons we must regret that Posidonius did not try out on Rome that ethnographical style which makes his Celts live for ever — a model to the French nation for any past and future extravagance . |