Example sentences of "he [verb] [adv prt] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well we 're gon na try get him to go out for a drink er one evening with that tape recorder so we 're gon na record the conversation on the side of that . |
| 2 | I ask him to come down for a few days and I also invite Lady De Marr . |
| 3 | ‘ Tell you what , see if you can persuade him to come down for an X-ray . |
| 4 | For the last hour his progressively alcoholised brain had reminded him of the consequences of justice ( small ‘ j ’ ) : of bringing a criminal before the courts , ensuring that he was convicted for his sins ( or was it his crimes ? ) , and then getting him locked up for the rest of his life , perhaps , in a prison where he would never again go to the WC without someone observing such an embarrassingly private function , someone smelling him , someone humiliating him . |
| 5 | So I had a er I got him set up for the morning jobs and then I did the afternoon jobs with him . |
| 6 | She could just imagine him closing in for the kill . |
| 7 | ‘ Good , Fox is on remand in Saughton , I 'll get him brought down for an ID parade , Strathclyde will bring Dalton through for us . |
| 8 | Do you think there 's any chance of him coming back for the opening of — ? ’ |
| 9 | I felt him go off for a few seconds . |
| 10 | I ca n't see him sitting down for a quiet civilized three cornered discussion . ’ |
| 11 | This hooking action is important because it interferes with the opponent 's attempts to free his arm and keeps him closed off for a longer period . |
| 12 | Collecting her ticket , she came up behind him again as he checked in for the flight . |
| 13 | He plunged down for an interminable second , arms and legs splayed out in abandon , forgotten , tumbling anyhow , and crashed onto the stage on his back , lying across Bothwell , whose cloak was the colour of blood . |
| 14 | He skips over for the bloody |
| 15 | He has received a card with drawings of gangsters on it and threats of a ‘ warm welcome ’ if he turns up for the second-round tie . |
| 16 | He goes in for a sort of hall-of-mirrors self-impersonation , telling people how he would have done the murder if he had done it ( which he has ) . |
| 17 | The next morning he goes out for a walk round the town . |
| 18 | GARY ARMSTRONG will take another giant step towards reviving his Scotland career when he lines up for the Barbarians at Leicester on December 28 . |
| 19 | But he lines up for the Welsh All-Blacks today , hoping to take another step towards erasing the memory . |
| 20 | He looks around for a moment , pleased as punch , then realizes that his fellow group members have all heard it a dozen times before . |
| 21 | All Cantona would say as he headed off for a quick trip to Paris before preparing for Sunday 's derby clash was : ‘ I enjoyed my debut . ’ |
| 22 | Finding himself with nine months to kill between school and university he cast round for a job . |
| 23 | Blanche 's question woke Dexter from his reverie and he cast around for a photograph of Nicola in the room . |
| 24 | He cast around for a chair , shoved some papers aside with a foot and perched on the edge of an armchair . |
| 25 | Smiling awkwardly , he cast around for a topic of conversation that was n't personal and had difficulty in finding one . |
| 26 | Ockleton described a sweeping circuit of the room , missing all the many obstacles in his path without apparently noticing them , and finished by the window , where he peered out for a full minute or so at the view it commanded of a blank gable-end and half the dome of the Radcliffe Camera . |
| 27 | He wandered around for a while and ran into a few of the household busy with their duties . |
| 28 | He wandered around for a couple of hours having chats with any of the old fellows who were around the place . ’ |
| 29 | Strachan was inspirational , and his goal was the highlight of the match — running at the defence , he twisted through for a fine shot about fifteen yards out . |
| 30 | He came up for a few days and stayed in Mackay 's Hotel in Ardallt . |