Example sentences of "he [verb] [to-vb] for [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Green , did n't he want to go for grey ? |
| 2 | Did n't he want to go for grey ? |
| 3 | There were other , smaller tasks which he wished to complete : when he had finished the play , he planned to revise for publication the lectures which he had given on education at the University of Chicago . |
| 4 | All the people he goes to meet for dinner and tea . |
| 5 | If Labov 's interpretations were suspect ( and of course they are not ) , this would not arise from the fact that he failed to test for significance . |
| 6 | A police search is under way for a businessman accused of attempting to export a military camera to the Soviet Union after he failed to appear for committal proceedings at Rugby Magistrates Court . |
| 7 | Rather than reject Marxism on the grounds that it had been disproved by history , as Merleau-ponty had done , he sought to account for Stalinism through a dialectical analysis of the specific history of the Soviet Union since the Revolution : theory and practice , he argued , had become separated with the result that the former had become ‘ sclerosed ’ while the latter had become ‘ blind ’ and ‘ unprincipled ’ ( I , 50 ) . |
| 8 | The next day he tried to beg for money , but large signs in some villages warned him that anyone caught begging would be sent to prison . |
| 9 | He tried to shout for help , but was too weak to raise even the feeblest of cries . |
| 10 | He tried to run for help straight after the crash but then he saw Jason on the road and collapsed with the shock . |
| 11 | When a manager is faced with no financial resources he has to look for youth or experience to fill out his squad . |
| 12 | Eddie Browning says he wants to apply for bail before his case goes before the Appeal Court later this year . |
| 13 | It was not until the following summer that Cadwallon surprised Osric 's forces and slew the Deiran leader , thereafter ravaging widely across Anglian territory and slaying Eanfrith when he came to sue for peace ( HE 111 , 1 ) . |
| 14 | And he intends to call for loan schemes in a bid to make safety equipment available to everyone . |
| 15 | He tends to opt for change merely because team A have had a go and it is time to give team B a chance . |
| 16 | He began to plead for mercy . |
| 17 | He began to ask for orange juice when offered drinks , hoping for a little nourishment before he passed out . |
| 18 | Another superb serve led to no more than a defensive return from Sampras and Forget was so confident that the American would not be able to return his first volley that he only just stopped himself from throwing his racket into the air as he started to dance for joy along with the crowd . |
| 19 | He seems to go for plain , quiet women . ’ |
| 20 | After a dozen years in the Arkansas state-house he decided to run for president at time when President George Bush 's re-election was considered virtually certain . |
| 21 | He had been in the habit , as he left in the mornings , of saying , ‘ Well , I 'm off to work now , ’ until one day , shortly before she deserted , she had , at those words , slammed shut the door of the dishwasher with a crash that shattered a wine glass and shouted at him : she had inquired , without much originality , what he thought she did all day , whether he imagined that cooking and shopping and washing and minding the child was not work , whether he supposed that she would now retire to her bed and lie there sucking chocolate bars and examining her fingernails until he chose to return for dinner . |
| 22 | He continues to pant for breath . |
| 23 | He said it was a preparation he had to take for diabetes . |
| 24 | He had five victories in 1986 , another six in 1987 , though in each season he had to settle for runner-up place in the Championship . |
| 25 | He 's actually back at the working class Blackburn Rovers he managed before that , where he had to scrape for money and look for bargains . |
| 26 | When he was discharged from the hospital , he continued to attend for rehabilitation treatment as an out-patient . |
| 27 | Will he continue to press for diversity in education through grant-maintained schools , through city technology colleges and through local management of schools responsive to parents ' wishes ? |
| 28 | He wanted to yell for joy but when he tried he could n't get any sound out . |
| 29 | I would n't mind , however , if he wanted to write for TV or , say , go into the musical side of the business . |
| 30 | As the Clinton cavalcade approached the Old State House , on the steps of which he first announced he intended to run for President , a black choir sang America The Beautiful . |