Example sentences of "he [vb -s] for [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A player joining a new club during the close season or after the season starts will have to wait 30 days if joining a club two leagues higher or lower before he plays for that club in a Courage league game or 120 days if joining a club on the same level or one league higher or lower before he plays for that in a league game ; he waits 180 days if he is not a British passport holder . |
| 2 | ‘ It is clear that when the section 8(6) procedure comes into operation it is for the police officer to make the decision whether the sample to be provided shall be a sample of blood or urine , but the police officer must convey to the defendant that the sample to be required may be of either blood or urine and must give the defendant an opportunity to consider which sample he would prefer to give if the choice were his and any reasons he has for that preference . |
| 3 | To assist the haulier in making early settlement the creditor , upon receiving a written request , is obliged to give the haulier ( the debtor ) all the information he needs for this purpose . |
| 4 | He adds for good measure that the public-sector deficit would be wiped out if the country stopped paying its foreign debts . |
| 5 | After the election I am sure any enthusiasm he shows for this issue will disappear as quickly as he will . |
| 6 | As he prepares for this afternoon 's prestige friendly against the World Cup holders , Argentina , in Cagliari , Vicini is characteristically playing the match down . |
| 7 | As he prepares for this afternoon 's prestige friendly against the World Cup-holders , Argentina , in Cagliari , Vicini is characteristically playing the match down . |
| 8 | Here he calls for unified action from education and industry to ensure that the UK 's future professionals are not left in the cold . |
| 9 | If he opts for physical delivery , he will be allocated one of a number of prime banks whose sterling time deposits are accepted by LIFFE as being of deliverable quality . |
| 10 | First , however , he asks for divine guidance : ‘ Assist me , Heav'n ! and teach me how to act / In this so nice , so delicate affair ’ [ ML , 2 , 134 ] . |
| 11 | He asks for immediate customer service and corrective action , supported by a visit from the ‘ Maranyl ’ quality manager to deal with the long-term implications . |
| 12 | The hon. Member for West Bromwich , East ( Mr. Snape ) assured me that a Labour Secretary of State would be bound by the timetable that he proposes for public Bill procedures . |
| 13 | He tabulates for each country the estimated variance of the unanticipated aggregate demand term , v , and that country 's estimated value for β 1 . |
| 14 | One of the consequences he claims for this theory is the disappearance of ideas ‘ to the precise extent that it has emerged that their existence is inscribed in the actions of practices governed by rituals defined in the last instance by an ideological apparatus ’ ( Althusser 1971 : 159 ) . |
| 15 | Well there 's one lad he driving the waggon er he works for another branch of them it just the haulage whatsit . |