Example sentences of "he [vb -s] for the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He is 16 — around the age Roy was when he became a star — and he plays for the Melchester youth team . |
| 2 | STEVE LLOYD , Moseley 's giant Uruguayan-born second row forward , is to be watched by Wales rugby union scout Terry Cobner when he plays for the Barbarians against Leicester on Boxing Day . |
| 3 | He plays for the Rand Afrikaans University in Johannesburg and is a certainty for Transvaal . |
| 4 | Chatam had not been seen in public since finishing fourth to Sibton Abbey in the Hennessy at Newbury in November , and Pipe said yesterday : ‘ It was a fine run considering he had been off the course for so long and he goes for the Gold Cup with every chance . |
| 5 | He goes for the plastic |
| 6 | If you go to , your master 's away cu say he 's gone to race meeting and it takes two day , they 're going to be up at , say Ascot , more likely he goes for the week . |
| 7 | BRITISH featherweight champion Sean Murphy is out to make it third time lucky when he challenges for the WBO world title next month . |
| 8 | but when he pauses for the interpreter 's turn |
| 9 | ‘ So you have to keep at him because like all kids he lives for the telly and various electronic gadgets and he 'd be quite happy eating crisps and playing for the rest of his life . |
| 10 | Then he heads for the store , to cash it in . |
| 11 | Finishing burst : Scotland 's Tom McKean leads the pack as he heads for the line and victory in the 800 metres at the World Indoor Track and Field Championships in Toronto |
| 12 | His high profile as a comedian , poet , singer and musician has a lot to do with the regular weekly poem he writes for the Weekend Guardian , recent appearances on radio in ‘ Kaleidoscope ’ and ‘ Loose Ends ’ and the ‘ Time Out ’ Cabaret Award , but it is in his live stage act that he can best be appreciated as an hilarious dead-pan comic . |
| 13 | Will the Minister assure the House that , whatever privatisation plans he has for the trust ports , there will be no recognition of those people who seem to have an interest in cashing in on the endeavours for their own ends ? |
| 14 | To ask the Prime Minister what plans he has for the future of the May day bank holiday . |
| 15 | To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what proposals he has for the alleviation of homelessness in Scotland . |
| 16 | To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science what responsibilities he has for the sports and arts foundation . |
| 17 | Souness is fixing me with the glare he reserves for the enemy , the look that countless midfield players must have known to their terror , a look that threatens to rupture my Achilles tendon , if I hover on a question too long . |
| 18 | Whatever the motivation , these amalgamations may happen several times during the months that he cares for the flock . |
| 19 | ‘ Hauptsturmführer Vaughan will remain and test-fly the plane now and as much as he wants for the rest of the day . |
| 20 | He 's set up a meeting for tomorrow with his financial boys , and I get the impression he 's very keen , but it 's all down to what he wants for the equity investment and how much I 'm prepared to give him . ’ |
| 21 | He digs for the salt-screw , buried in crepitant spud — |
| 22 | The 21-stone club chairman , reported to police by one of the photographers he assaulted on Monday , was on the rampage once more , threatening to give free transfers to the entire squad whom he blames for the £50,000 Football League fine . |
| 23 | He apologises for the mess and sets to work clearing books and bottles and brochures off the one cracked settee for us to sit on . |
| 24 | Then he allows for the effects of a ‘ propagation mechanism ’ ( see section 5.1(a) ) by adding the lagged value of to equation ( 6.2 ) and attaching a positive coefficient to it , giving : |
| 25 | He reaches for the spoon and begins shovelling cabbage . |
| 26 | He reaches for the tray but it 's beyond his fingers . |
| 27 | Given the excessive demands already placed upon Walter Smith 's squad at domestic , European and international level , and the injury crisis which envelops Rangers ' manager as he prepares for the Champions League game with FC Brugge tomorrow , it would seem likely Roxburgh will lose some of the Ibrox contingent . |
| 28 | And he prepares for the axe every time boss Walter Smith names a European Cup squad . |
| 29 | In a year or two he should have a decent sized flock — of course he 's not normally down here this early , he only has a bit of a stable down here that he rents for the summer along with his few acres of grass and his bit of land for cultivation . |
| 30 | As he waits for the computer to load up the programmes , he scans the rolls of newly arrived faxes . |