Example sentences of "he [vb -s] for a " 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 | Once he is asleep , he sleeps for a very long time — thousands of years in fact . |
| 4 | He thinks for a while . |
| 5 | His home is presently in Kidderminster from where he weekly commutes while he looks for a new house in the local area . |
| 6 | Well yeah I guess I did he gets confidence and he walks up with this he 's getting cockier by the minute and he 's well proud and he 's got he sees this , his in this bar trying to chat up this woman , he says I need a , I need a did n't he say I need a smoke or something , so he looks for a woman |
| 7 | He frowns for a second , and then breaks into another warped grin . |
| 8 | David Mellor is besieged by a press posse as he arrives for a showdown at The Last Chance Saloon last night Picture : KEN LENNOX |
| 9 | Buck 's other contacts include an ageing hooker whom he mistakes for a society woman ( ‘ I 'm one gorgeous chick , ’ says the ungorgeous non-chicken Sylvia Miles ) ; two weak and whining homosexual pick-ups ; and a couple of weirdos who invite him to an ‘ underground ’ party . |
| 10 | Another of his favourites seems to have been a tomato jam ; this he uses for a sweet called Peaches Barbara with cream and kirschwasser and pistachio nuts . |
| 11 | Yet he passes for a moderate within the fierce revolutionary council , the Dergue . |
| 12 | He reaches for a booklet and starts to flip through it . |
| 13 | He reaches for a plastic bag . |
| 14 | The superstar took over the lakeside complex at Snagov as he prepares for a sell-out concert in Bucharest tomorrow . |
| 15 | He sniffs for a split-second . |
| 16 | He waits for a beat , then says : ‘ I freed whooooooo ? ’ |
| 17 | Cos he was , he takes for a pee anyway |
| 18 | He calls for a reformed profession built around a new " common enterprise " and involving " wide active cooperation " among its members . |
| 19 | pulls on his trunks then he swims for a while , gets out , takes off his trunks , puts his towel round himself , rubs himself , walks round the pool a couple of times and rubs himself |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Wilkinson will now try to qualify for the British Open as he aims for a European tour card later in the year . |
| 24 | Finally , a person who is given permission to enter for a particular purpose will be a trespasser if he enters for a different purpose . |
| 25 | I do n't mind if he reads for a few minutes but that 's it . |
| 26 | Jones is not challenging the verdict of the FA commission , which found him guilty of bringing the game into disrepute , but he hopes for a reduction in the heaviest punishment ever imposed on an individual player . |
| 27 | This elderly Czech émigré , an unsuccessful literary man , is the godfather of her husband 's boyfriend , Tomas , a sharp-looking little hustler with disconcerting ways ( he asks for a glass of water as if issuing a command ) . |
| 28 | He asks for a review of wholesale pricing policies and asks that all dealers should be contacted . |
| 29 | The problem is that the child throws toys every time he asks for a biscuit and is refused . |
| 30 | Consider this example : PB = Child has tantrum whenever he asks for a sweet ( or something else ) and does not get it . |