Example sentences of "he [vb -s] for [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 's a very bright man , Michael Howard , but it 's quite clear that he 's much more concerned with grabbing the headlines and finding scapegoats , than with taking action through law that will actually improve the chance , both of preventing crime and of detecting crime , and then even more so , deterring people from re-offending , and it 's most distressing to see that when research showed that a particular non-custodial method of punishment is effective in perhaps fifty or seventy or eighty percent of cases , whereas prison is not , he goes for prison , he goes for picking on squatters , he goes for picking on the defendants right to silence so that we can see more people like er , jailed when they were innocent . |
| 2 | The papers which he receives for council and committee work are often confidential and he should not disclose the contents of those papers to outsiders . |
| 3 | He feels his faithful services are not valued , and he longs for death . |
| 4 | Born in a Preston slum , and upbraided as ‘ a worldly little devil ’ by his harridan mother because he longs for food and warmth , his acute fear of being thought worldly dominates his subsequent life , causing him to be misunderstood and exploited . |
| 5 | He looks for food . |
| 6 | He pauses for eye-crossing , brown-knitting thought . |
| 7 | He pauses for breath . |
| 8 | He pauses for breath . |
| 9 | ‘ He lives for football and all his mates from his team are in there with him . |
| 10 | is all he has for sale . |
| 11 | Even if the producer happens to be a resource owner , he is to be considered an entrepreneur with respect to the other resources he needs for production . |
| 12 | Get down to Bob Cratchitt 's this minute and give Tiny Tim that away kit he wants for Chrimbo you tight get . |
| 13 | When Dr Moses appears in one of George 's hallucinations as Santa Claus , he asks George what he wants for Christmas . |
| 14 | He goes up every year and nicks what he wants for Christmas for the kids . |
| 15 | he says for cost price , our Kim says well it were a lot of money that bed and we 've only just got it |
| 16 | He says for safety reasons visitors wo n't be able to go down the tunnels . |
| 17 | Well his got a little one that he uses for work , but his borrowed his boss big one to take his stuff over . |
| 18 | ‘ He bats for average and for power , ’ Stewart said . |
| 19 | ‘ I 'll be very nervous but I want to ask him what he eats for breakfast . |
| 20 | He preies for Charite , Merce and Pite — |
| 21 | The original meaning of the word ‘ merry ’ is fitting and appropriate — for example a judge might well have proclaimed : ‘ T is merry that he hangs for murder . ’ |
| 22 | For example , a self-employed businessman may make use in his business of the accounting information he prepares for tax reasons . |
| 23 | He trawls for advice and information from dozens of people , who find themselves invited to Kensington Palace quite out of the blue . |
| 24 | Now then , if the council could , could 've come to some agreement and put in there , it would of made it right for us , now , you see we 've done so before , this is what I do n't like about he , he applies for planning permission does er the notice was no bigger than six inches long and four |
| 25 | He aims for success today and every day . |
| 26 | He appears for commentary work and promotions . |
| 27 | By January 1994 , he hopes for accreditation at six ARA sites . |
| 28 | Obvious answers first : he hopes for preferment . |
| 29 | He asks for credit terms and , at the trader 's suggestion , he fills in a finance company 's hire purchase proposal form , which is in fact an offer made by the customer and addressed to the finance company to acquire the item from the finance company on hire purchase terms . |
| 30 | He asks for instalment terms . |