Example sentences of "he [verb] for [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those are only the qualities he looks for in the people who work for him , though . |
| 2 | Tied up nearby , as before , is a solitary cow which he cares for on a 25-per-cent basis ( the rest of the proceeds go to the owner ) . |
| 3 | Despite the fact that David was expelled in the third form for dissing the gym teacher who confiscated his Uzi and broke his crack-peddling ring , he still feels enough loyalty to the old alma mater not to drag its name through the mud by engaging the lads he fagged for in a ‘ naughty-word ’ style debate . |
| 4 | This is to prevent the offeror from acquiring more shares than he bid for under the partial offer , and shareholders in the target from receiving more favourable treatment from the offeror by selling in the market during the 12 months following the partial bid . |
| 5 | In Brewster ( 1979 ) 69 Cr App R 375 ( CA ) , an insurance agent was guilty of theft of the premiums because the money had to be handed over to the companies he worked for under the terms of his contract . |
| 6 | CAMERAMAN Sean Colborn got more than he bargained for at a police auction — he bought a do-it-yourself BURGLARY kit . |
| 7 | Ten years ago , if you asked any tennis player what he looked for in a court , you would probably get 10 different answers . |
| 8 | Starting at Chester on Sunday , McGuigan will scuttle through Britain 's forests in his Vauxhall Nova for four days , chasing away the thought that he may lose every penny he battled for in the ring if his appeal against £450,000 libel damages plus legal costs fails . |
| 9 | She was afraid he would ask her about herself and to forestall this she asked him to tell her about his training and what he hoped for in the future . |
| 10 | The strategy which he argues for in the early nineteen thirties , and it subsequently becomes the dominant strategy of the Party and Mao becomes the er recognized leader of the Communist Party er really at the beginning of the second half of the nineteen thirties , nineteen thirty five nineteen thirty six , around that time it has become the dominant position . |
| 11 | He says now he 's got the — ca n't remember the word , begins with a P , it 's what you might call the stake money — the people he works for in the Agatean Empire will pay up . |
| 12 | Without wanting to appear too sanguine , and without trivializing the persistent phenomenon of right-wing extremism and the need to maintain vigilance against it , the full realization of the responsibility which Hitler bears for the untold agonies suffered by millions has so discredited everything he stood for in the eyes of sane persons everywhere that , except in circumstances beyond the scope of our realistic imagination , it is difficult to see that there could be a resurrection or a new variant of the once-mighty ‘ Hitler myth ’ , with its power to capture the imagination of millions . |