Example sentences of "he [verb] [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Green , did n't he want to go for grey ? |
| 2 | Did n't he want to go for grey ? |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 … |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ‘ If he goes to jail for trafficking in drugs you wo n't have to bother about consulting him , will you ? |
| 10 | All the people he goes to meet for dinner and tea . |
| 11 | Would the Minister like to clarify that now , or would he prefer to wait for his PPS ? |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | He eventually sold the properties for £5 million — half of what he originally told shareholders he expected to get for them . |
| 14 | As a lawyer he became known for his defence of dissidents and conscientious objectors . |
| 15 | ALAIN Prost captured his sixth consecutive pole position of the Formula One season as he led qualifying for the Monaco Grand Prix today . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | He failed to allow for the fact that Lucasta Redburn could not bear to throw away anything that might one day come in useful . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | He got assassinated for being too you know . |
| 20 | No seat belt , he got stopped for it yesterday . |
| 21 | Ah he got , ah he got done for that did he ? |
| 22 | No , he got done for speeding . |
| 23 | yeah , he got charged for the commander |
| 24 | And then he got arrested for summat , and now he 's in prison . |
| 25 | He took a pride in his job and he did n't mind how many hours he put in as long as he got paid for them . |
| 26 | He got paid for the work that erm |
| 27 | Rather than reject Marxism on the grounds that it had been disproved by history , as Merleau-ponty had done , he sought to account for Stalinism through a dialectical analysis of the specific history of the Soviet Union since the Revolution : theory and practice , he argued , had become separated with the result that the former had become ‘ sclerosed ’ while the latter had become ‘ blind ’ and ‘ unprincipled ’ ( I , 50 ) . |
| 28 | ‘ He was a bit disappointing on the Flat for Lord Huntingdon , but he looks made for our game , ’ Clay added . |
| 29 | The leader of the opposition National Democratic Party of Georgia ( NDPG ) , Georgi Chanturia , was arrested at Tbilisi airport as he tried to leave for Moscow on Sept. 16 , together with his wife Irina Sarishvili and another NDPG leader Vakhtang Talakhadze ( who was released the following day ) . |
| 30 | He tried to reach for his sword but could not . |