Example sentences of "he [verb] [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of course it must be agony for him to go shopping for me ( what does he do at the chemist 's ? ) , so I suppose he prefers to get it all over in one go . |
| 2 | ‘ She never knew ’ , said Gran , ‘ that Jake 'd leave him to come looking for her , and ne'er see him grown . |
| 3 | They worked together for six months in project planning and Brown took a teaching job at the Strathclyde Business School which also allowed him to keep looking for hotel sites . |
| 4 | On 17 September 1991 Rose J. granted him leave to apply for judicial review and directed that a preliminary issue be determined whether the High Court has any jurisdiction to hear an application for judicial review of a decision of visitors to the Inns of Court . |
| 5 | But Hodkinson admitted last night : ‘ When Colin lost his title to Palecio , I thought a fight against him had gone for good . |
| 6 | On the face of it , the shooting looked like another bloody event in Irish history , but perhaps it was its timing — on the same day that the government had sat for the first time — that intrigued him , or perhaps it was Joe 's words : that his father and the men like him had died for Ireland were being betrayed . |
| 7 | It means I must leave the doors unlocked , but that 's less risk than having him come looking for me within the quarter-hour , as he surely would . ’ |
| 8 | Green , did n't he want to go for grey ? |
| 9 | Did n't he want to go for grey ? |
| 10 | There were other , smaller tasks which he wished to complete : when he had finished the play , he planned to revise for publication the lectures which he had given on education at the University of Chicago . |
| 11 | He drew up a very elaborate Writer 's Guide to explain what he had in mind to the authors he planned to canvass for Doctor Who . |
| 12 | ‘ You 've got to be kidding ! ’ yelped Margaret Lenham , as much astonished as afraid at the sight of what he planned to use for the operation : a knitting needle . |
| 13 | The Sinn Fein man claimed two plain-clothes men approached Mr Fox in Thomas Street , Dungannon on September 2 and promised him a new house if he agreed to work for them . |
| 14 | Watch him wobble onto the dance floor as he goes looking for a decent record collection ( ie no Alice Cooper or Frank Zappa ) in CodeMasters ' happenin' hit … |
| 15 | The badges of honour he sports on his veteran 's beret when he goes dining for the old soldiers ' vote gave his plea a sort of authority . |
| 16 | ‘ If he goes to jail for trafficking in drugs you wo n't have to bother about consulting him , will you ? |
| 17 | All the people he goes to meet for dinner and tea . |
| 18 | Would the Minister like to clarify that now , or would he prefer to wait for his PPS ? |
| 19 | It was normal , moreover , as in earlier generations , for a diplomat going to one of the more out-of-the-way capitals , if he expected to stay for any length of time , to equip himself with a mass of essentials which might be difficult or impossible to obtain at his destination . |
| 20 | He eventually sold the properties for £5 million — half of what he originally told shareholders he expected to get for them . |
| 21 | As a lawyer he became known for his defence of dissidents and conscientious objectors . |
| 22 | ALAIN Prost captured his sixth consecutive pole position of the Formula One season as he led qualifying for the Monaco Grand Prix today . |
| 23 | If Labov 's interpretations were suspect ( and of course they are not ) , this would not arise from the fact that he failed to test for significance . |
| 24 | He failed to allow for the fact that Lucasta Redburn could not bear to throw away anything that might one day come in useful . |
| 25 | A police search is under way for a businessman accused of attempting to export a military camera to the Soviet Union after he failed to appear for committal proceedings at Rugby Magistrates Court . |
| 26 | He got assassinated for being too you know . |
| 27 | No seat belt , he got stopped for it yesterday . |
| 28 | Ah he got , ah he got done for that did he ? |
| 29 | No , he got done for speeding . |
| 30 | yeah , he got charged for the commander |