Example sentences of "he [vb -s] for [verb] " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | Stated generally , the fundamental rationale he offers for having to do so is that he , either himself or as the agent of society , knew better than the patient what should be done to or for the patient . |
| 4 | The quickening presence of the love he longs for seems conspicuous by its absence , a feeling emphasised by the strong-stressed , medially-stopped half-line . |
| 5 | To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what proposals he has for assisting councils to increase security in high tower block housing . |
| 6 | To ask the Secretary of State for Health what plans he has for reducing waiting times in respect of eye treatments ; and if he will make a statement . |
| 7 | In this , however , he may be naive , for unless he is prepared to say what pertinent effects are , it is not clear what grounds he has for claiming that they always exist . |
| 8 | He apologises for phoning so late . |
| 9 | ‘ The one he wears for visiting ? ’ |
| 10 | And he 's not the best of chums with the Yorkshire Dales National Park , who he criticises for favouring the car driving tourist over the locals with the absurd blocking of planning permission for goal posts on Dent 's football pitch . |
| 11 | The discontinuity with religion which he saw as the dilemma of modern art he takes for granted , and even a cursory knowledge of twentieth-century art confirms this . |
| 12 | He no longer expects to win major tournaments but he settles for creating a noisy sensation in going as far as he can go . |
| 13 | The reason he gives for adopting this standpoint is that reality can be conceived of in many different ways all of which are equally valid . |
| 14 | Also , if your debtor is late in paying it can mean that he pays for financing his lateness instead of you . |
| 15 | Since the firm he works for won the contract for the Statue of Liberty , it has been responsible for protecting her from the ravages of harsh Atlantic weather . |