Example sentences of "he [to-vb] for a [adj] " in BNC.

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1 She asks him to recognize his father 's wisdom in trying to encourage him to work for a steady position and shares his anxiety about delays with Blackwoods , over the publication of The Woodland Life .
2 She often urged him to look for a suitable girl , but he always replied that there was plenty of time and to date no one had taken his fancy .
3 ( vii ) Where the chairman holds a proxy requiring him to vote for a particular resolution , if no one else proposes that resolution , he must do so unless he considers that there is good reason for not doing so ( r 6.89 ) .
4 In any event , before the disastrous situation which sent him to jail for a short period , I had one other encounter .
5 Controllers urged him to make for a remote runway which would take him over fields and small villages .
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