Example sentences of "he [adv prt] for the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He found another vessel whose captain ( a Scot ) was prepared to sign him on for the voyage to New York . |
| 2 | I 've put the belt in for when he 's bad and I 've sewn him in for the winter . |
| 3 | Probably because it was a way of roping him in for the future , Malcolm invited him down to a few rehearsals . |
| 4 | But on what grounds will a teacher identify a pupil as F , and put him in for the F exam ? |
| 5 | He might not have been able to dodge the water , but they 'd never pinned him down for the Instruction . |
| 6 | You write to an imaginary friend , you 're inviting him down for the summer holidays and you say all that , all about the sort of things that you 're planning to do with them , make it up |
| 7 | Or were you just stringing him along for the fun of it ? ’ |
| 8 | He may have made a cool £250,000 out of writing George Michael 's biography , but he was cute enough to identify a demand for the tome , and lucky George did n't want to rip him off for the proceeds . |
| 9 | I had more or less written him off for the season . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ Early on in that , the hero 's homeless and somebody puts him up for the night . ’ |
| 11 | It cost the poor milkman a fortune to get them to pay him up for the milk people said they did n't get , you know ! |
| 12 | But Tony 's sparkling form at England B level is sure to give him the left wing spot and set him up for the Test against Canada on October 17 . |
| 13 | I mentally signed him up for the STBO ( Stating the B — ng Obvious ) Club . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Bob Geldof would shine as scruffy Larry but cleaning him up for the post wedding scenes could be hard . |
| 16 | I would n't give him up for the world . ’ |
| 17 | Best to sit back and cue him up for the one-liners . |
| 18 | He will definitely miss next week 's game but Wilko is hopeful that he 'll have him back for the Chelsea game . |
| 19 | A long exile ended in 1989 when England manager Geoff Cooke , no longer able to ignore Hill 's superb form for all-conquering Bath , brought him back for the game against Fiji at Twickenham . |
| 20 | Soon afterwards , however , Ellcock became the ‘ nearly man ’ again , entering hospital for further surgery to remove the screws that had snapped in his back , ruling him out for the rest of the summer and , ultimately , despite encouraging practice sessions with the England A party last winter , the immediate future . |
| 21 | His hands were not particularly robust , but he missed very few matches until June 1952 , when appendicitis ruled him out for the rest of the summer . |
| 22 | Gary Stevens , whose non-appearance was announced on Monday , is to enter hospital tomorrow for an operation on his damaged left foot that will keep him out for the rest of the season . |
| 23 | Ipswich were unfortunate to lose winger Jeremy English with fractured ribs , ruling him out for the remainder of the season . |
| 24 | There he was swirling a bunch of flowers , dressed in ill-fitting Levi 's ( surely Joe Moss could have fitted him out for the event ) and a ridiculous shirt . |
| 25 | A boyfriend came with her , rather unkempt , so keep him out for the time being at least . |