Example sentences of "[vb -s] for the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Computer Horizons Corp 's largest shareholder , CGI Informatique SA , itself under agreed offer from IBM Corp , is seeking to persuade other shareholders to overturn corporate policies that it thinks deter potential acquisition offers for the Mountain Lakes , New Jersey company . |
| 2 | If he pleads guilty and begs for the mercy of the court , he may get off with a fine and deportation . |
| 3 | The vintage style Clean 1 is perfect for almost anything , while Clean 2 is enough to bring out the Mutt Lange in anyone — it 's so sparkly , and begs for the addition of some subtle effects . |
| 4 | Jamie , 18 , is Boro 's young player of the year while Sean , also 18 , plays for the Quakers . |
| 5 | He is 16 — around the age Roy was when he became a star — and he plays for the Melchester youth team . |
| 6 | They were two of five Winchester Club players in the nine-member Alton College squad , which also included five county players , and Cathy MacCormack who plays for the South of England under-18 team . |
| 7 | Former world snooker champion Terry Griffiths , who plays for the South Wales CA Division Five side Burry Port , is spearheading a campaign for a new sports stadium in the town . |
| 8 | Rory plays for the Tigers . |
| 9 | She now plays for the Stone Lodge Bowls Club at the Sports and Social Club , Ipswich and for the Suffolk Police Bowls Club . |
| 10 | I was doing radio plays for the BBC . |
| 11 | As a keen musician and clarinet player ( name your own musical instrument or say ‘ As one who appreciates music but can not play anything more difficult than a gramophone record , I was very impressed to learn ) I was delighted to learn that Annabelle 's uncle plays for the BBC orchestra ( or pop group , etc. ) , on the violin ( or drums ) . |
| 12 | Also selected for the first time is batsman Mohsin Chohan , who plays for the Bangor club and has appeared for Caernarfonshire in the past . |
| 13 | Club captain Dave Dickson , SVT mechanical engineer , was presented with the stylish kit by Dave Stephenson , Honeywell engineer at the terminal , who also plays for the Lerwick side . |
| 14 | I hope Kelly plays for the RoI . |
| 15 | Who plays for the football team you support ? |
| 16 | He plays for the Rand Afrikaans University in Johannesburg and is a certainty for Transvaal . |
| 17 | STEVE LLOYD , Moseley 's giant Uruguayan-born second row forward , is to be watched by Wales rugby union scout Terry Cobner when he plays for the Barbarians against Leicester on Boxing Day . |
| 18 | Although on-trial Norwegian striker Tore Andre Dahlum plays for the reserves on Wednesday , Ferguson admits he is for the future , and he must plunge now . |
| 19 | Forrest plays for the reserves tonight and will welcome the match practice as he has been unable to win his first team place back from Clive Baker . |
| 20 | But the talented Keane , who plays for the Republic of Ireland against Spain in Seville tomorrow , will put the negotiations on ice while he weighs up his options . |
| 21 | The association has offered the MP free cab rides for the rest of his stay in the resort . |
| 22 | Wee Blair McAfferty now rides for the DB am team . |
| 23 | In fact it makes its point more powerfully if it is seen as prose but heard or read as poetry since the meditation then enacts for the reader that speech-become-song meditation-become-poem that Rolle talks of in The Fire of Love . |
| 24 | He also belongs for the reason suggested by Svidrigailov ; Petersburg is the administrative centre of Russia , and Porfiry occupies his position there as an official examining magistrate within the metropolitan and national legal system . |
| 25 | The whist drives for the school — you can take part in the preparations . |
| 26 | But Sir Leon believed an early agreement was needed to boost economic growth in eastern Europe and secure energy supplies for the West . |
| 27 | On Aug. 29 , 1990 , the government announced drastic energy-saving measures to reduce fuel consumption , including the introduction of rationing vouchers to achieve a 50 and 30 per cent cut in petrol and diesel supplies for the state sector and private vehicles respectively . |
| 28 | This delighted Mr Winston Churchill , who as First Lord of the Admiralty was anxious to secure the Royal Navy 's fuel supplies for the war which seemed imminent . |
| 29 | For example , a supervisor whose principal job is to plan tomorrow 's production assignments and next week 's work schedule but who also has ongoing responsibility for uninterrupted production supplies for the month ahead has a responsibility time span of one month . |
| 30 | The whole story is that I was asked to ride Docklands Express , Cool Ground , Auntie Dot and Bonanza Boy in home gallops for the television cameras and then to compare the quartet . |