The phrase "a boy for a" is not complete and lacks context, making it difficult to determine its correctness or usability in written English.
It could potentially be used in a context where a comparison or exchange is being made, but without additional information, its meaning is unclear.
Example: "He was looking for a boy for a specific task, but he couldn't find anyone suitable."
Alternatives: "a boy in exchange for" or "a boy to replace".
"I used a want a boy for a kid," said Ennis, undoing buttons, "but just got little girls".
The work was inspired by tunes Elgar wrote as a boy for a children's play to be performed by his siblings.
"Sometimes I say to my friends – because they were born a girl – 'Would you be a boy for a day to see what it feels like?' And they say yeah, but I'm like: 'I don't have to because I'm both.'" Do you really think you're both, I ask, or do you think you're a girl?
In the past, in less scientifically advanced times, the best verification of royal legitimacy was for a senior official to be present at a royal birth to ensure no sleight of hand with a warming pan to substitute a boy for a girl.
Swank reportedly lived as a boy for a month in preparation for the role.
And when that Mendelssohn melody gently returns at the end of the play, it adds a lovely little layer to Peter's discovery that he really can "just be a boy for a while" -- and can even learn how to fly.
Israeli prosecutors have filed murder charges against a man and a boy for an arson attack in the occupied West Bank that killed three members of a Palestinian family and helped fuel the fiercest eruption of street violence in years.
Re-offending was defined if the police registered a boy for an offence within two years of the first registered offence.
"How can they kill a boy for being an artist?" Mr. Gonell asked.
They are asked to imagine they visit this nature reserve and are given a Lego figure (a boy for boys and a girl for girls) that represents them.
After his father died in a construction accident, Leopold moved with his mother to Pittsburgh, where he worked as an office boy for John Worthington, a geologist for Standard Oil.
