Example sentences of "he [vb -s] for a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He plays for a mixed side in his spare time and is well up with the rules which is pretty useful because they seem to change every couple of months . ’ |
| 2 | Catching sight of her , the boy Charles — see him now ! — wants To follow his father 's model : he asks , he begs for a keen horse , Urgently demands weapons , quiver and swift arrows , And craves to go chasing after the doe , just as his father himself would do . |
| 3 | His home is presently in Kidderminster from where he weekly commutes while he looks for a new house in the local area . |
| 4 | Yet he passes for a moderate within the fierce revolutionary council , the Dergue . |
| 5 | He calls for a reformed profession built around a new " common enterprise " and involving " wide active cooperation " among its members . |
| 6 | He opts for a single fragment of European culture and , by way of compensation , he must at once reaffirm that ideal of personal and cultural wholeness which on various grounds he now sees immediately symbolized in Schopenhauer — and not least because Schopenhauer , for all his scorn of the contemporary world , unquestionably belongs to it . |
| 7 | If he opts for a basic valuation , for which he pays a lower fee than for either of the other two , he will normally receive a copy . |
| 8 | Wilkinson will now try to qualify for the British Open as he aims for a European tour card later in the year . |
| 9 | Even if he aims for a gross profit 5–10% less than a competitor , Mendoros believes , overheads are such that he should come out better at the net level . |
| 10 | Finally , a person who is given permission to enter for a particular purpose will be a trespasser if he enters for a different purpose . |
| 11 | I do n't mind if he reads for a few minutes but that 's it . |
| 12 | Consider this example : PB = Child has tantrum whenever he asks for a sweet ( or something else ) and does not get it . |