Example sentences of "[noun] on his [noun sg] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Barry fits a visor on his colt for the first time in the Ladbrokes Ayr Gold Cup in a bid to cover all the angles . |
| 2 | He walked with a limp , and had you not known better you could have mistaken the sores and scabs on his face for the kind of wounds worn by down-and-outs in Cardboard City . |
| 3 | He eventually got the girl to agree to a date and walked around with an idiot smile on his face for the few weeks beforehand . |
| 4 | Talk by Ray Cecil on his manifesto for the forthcoming RIBA Presidential Election , in Leeds Polytechnic , Brunswick Terrace , Leeds LS2 8BU ( 0532 ) 832600 ext. 4082 . |
| 5 | By the time of his third Melbourne Cup in November he had already won eight races as a five-year-old and had become a national idol , but the handicapper had shovelled ten stone ten pounds on his back for the Cup , so it was no disgrace when he could finish only eighth . |
| 6 | Although he is a newcomer to sailing and the America 's Cup , he has created a huge syndicate of 200 people and spent a staggering £1.4 million per month on his camapign for the past year-and-a-half . |
| 7 | Having reduced Helena to tears by refusing her a kiss on his departure for the wars , he has , you notice , to check himself from an involuntary lunge forward to comfort her . |
| 8 | Manchester United wait on Bryan Robson 's decision on his fitness for the Rumbelows Cup Final against Nottingham Forest today , and hope to use the match to launch them on the final leg of their title procession . |
| 9 | The giant chaser put up an exciting performance on his debut for the champion trainer , romping home by 12 lengths from favourite Fit For Firing at Wincanton on Saturday . |
| 10 | Just before he was due to pack his case , tidy the papers on his desk for the last time , and go home , Spittals was surprised to receive a call from the commander of the Squad , who asked the chief superintendent to call in before he went home . |
| 11 | At length these bitter fruits of sin , and a sense of dependency on his providence for the averting those dreadful consequences with which others were imminently threatened , brought me to the repentance and gave me a victory over those guilty passions by which I had been so long enslaved . |