Example sentences of "he [vb -s] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He plays for Rovers now . |
| 2 | well the thing is I mean he plays for England under twenty ones |
| 3 | ‘ Whenever he plays for Arsenal , there always seems to be so much pressure on him . |
| 4 | Nearer home , he is a stalwart of the chess club at his present school , Yarm School junior department , and he plays for Stokesley in the senior division of the chess league . |
| 5 | Before losing out to Northampton who were bullies , I was at that match at Buckingham Road and I thought they were bullies , especially Bobby Barnes , not the wrestler , used to play for West Ham , but he plays for Northampton now , he 's gone now , but they were , they , they were naughty . |
| 6 | The Lithuanian back division , as Liubinskas was a little suspect against Northern Ireland but this was primarily due to the absence of 32-year-old central defender Vlacheslavas Sukristovas who was unable to obtain a visa from Israel where he plays for Maccabi Netanya . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | He goes for walks with the boys and they talk about fishing and tractors . ’ |
| 9 | erm , because she 's , she 's quite big for her age , but like Louise she 's quite tall now , she 's nearly too tall for him even though there 's nothing of her she must only be about seven stone , erm , but this little Vicky she 's oh thinking she 's really good now and she 's improved so much and getting confident as well , and the dad takes in , he puts the bridle on him , he takes the dog in one hand and Min in the other he goes for walks for miles with the , with the horse and the dog Dave does |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | He feels his faithful services are not valued , and he longs for death . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Sometimes he deputises for James Barlow , the butler , whose qualifications — his father is a baronet — are as impeccable as his Edwardian white gloves . |
| 14 | He looks for food . |
| 15 | I ca n't help putting myself in his place , of course , as he looks for ways to contain someone we both regard as an outsider . |
| 16 | He pauses for eye-crossing , brown-knitting thought . |
| 17 | He pauses for breath . |
| 18 | He pauses for breath . |
| 19 | ‘ He lives for football and all his mates from his team are in there with him . |
| 20 | TOMORROW he heads for Bridport in Dorset — a real 26-mile marathon . |
| 21 | Neil Kinnock will be in his Islwyn constituency in South Wales where local Labour supporters expect to arrange a small party before he heads for London . |
| 22 | To ask the Secretary of State for Energy what is his estimate of the current level of unleaded petrol sales in the United Kingdom ; and what comparable figures he has for EC member states . |
| 23 | is all he has for sale . |
| 24 | Later in the same chapter , at the point of death , Dickens breaks into a further kind of rhetoric , the declamatory rhetoric he reserves for moments of high drama : [ 5 ] The golden ripple on the wall came back again , and nothing else stirred in the room ( 1 ) . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | he searches for females and chivvies them |
| 27 | news on Ronny Johnsen ( who has been linked with Leeds as a central defender ) is that he starts for Norway tonight as the 1 ( lone atttacker ) in our 4–5-1 formation against Turkey , i think the game will be shown live on SkySports . |
| 28 | Get down to Bob Cratchitt 's this minute and give Tiny Tim that away kit he wants for Chrimbo you tight get . |
| 29 | When Dr Moses appears in one of George 's hallucinations as Santa Claus , he asks George what he wants for Christmas . |
| 30 | He goes up every year and nicks what he wants for Christmas for the kids . |