Example sentences of "[verb] for his [adj] [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Henley rower , Steve Redgrave has been honoured for his outstanding achievement in the sport . |
| 2 | He will be enmeshed for his own good in the electric wires which bring with them life-giving energy to make the farm fertile . |
| 3 | Christopher made for his favourite restaurant in his favourite town — Agen . |
| 4 | John Tyzack provided for his comfortable retirement in Oxford by selling the business to Henderson Administration , the well-known investment trust . |
| 5 | Farloe Melody , bidding for his third appearance in the Derby final — he won it two years ago — has missed out in the trap draw for heat 15 . |
| 6 | My suspicion first fell on Reg Pybus , but I am now certain it is Howard Wilkinson , seeking some perverted pleasure to compensate for his monumental gaff in signing that prat Colin Webley . |
| 7 | AI believes that he is being made to answer for his active involvement in the Sudan Doctors ' Union and left-wing politics , his role in the non-violent protests which led to the overthrow of President Nimeiri in April 1985 and his outspoken criticism of the current government . |
| 8 | Malinowski had a complex character , as illustrated by the posthumous A Diary in the Strict Sense of the Term ( 1967 ) , written for his private use in Polish in the Trobriands . |
| 9 | The Great Dane , recently voted the world 's best goalkeeper , will be looking for his seventh shut-out in a row as Manchester United take on Tottenham today . |
| 10 | When they do , he 's probably so busy making tea , answering their demands for more sugar , and looking for his favourite mug in the debris that he ca n't concentrate on his red boxes . |
| 11 | When Heath , a staunch Royalist , fled to France under the Commonwealth , Vermuyden appears to have expropriated Heath 's share of a mine at Wirksworth , and Heath 's son was still petitioning for his rightful property in 1652 . |
| 12 | Almost immediately Niall was waylaid , and involuntarily she found herself searching for his dark head in the crowd . |
| 13 | He was 56 years old and was heading for his magnificent home in Warwickshire , Kenilworth Castle . |
| 14 | His ambition , of course , is to challenge for his old place in the second row of the Irish scrum . |
| 15 | Piffetti is noted for his technical perfection in the application of complex marquetry of ivory ( sometimes carved in three-dimensional relief ) , mother-of-pearl and tortoiseshell to furniture with elaborate forms . |
| 16 | Even the compere , noted for his own style in suits , tried to bump up the bidding . |
| 17 | He was initially a good provider and noted for his smart clothes in the post-depression days . |
| 18 | Chillida , from San Sebastian , Spain , is best know for his monumental works in natural materials , such as wood , iron and marble , but he also produces collages and engravings . |
| 19 | Peach was best known for his geological fieldwork in Scotland with John Horne [ q.v. ] , |
| 20 | The defence of volenti was held to be inappropriate but the plaintiff 's damages were reduced for his contributory negligence in riding with a drunken driver and failing to wear a seat belt . |
| 21 | The sculptor mason now thought to have built it , Valentine Strong , whose building family owned stone quarries at nearby Little Barrington , will long be remembered for his witty epitaph in Fairford churchyard : |
| 22 | Henry chose England , but because the imperial promise to preserve his territories was broken , he returned to fight for his hereditary claim in 1189 . |
| 23 | The sister of Derek Bentley , executed for his alleged role in the killing of a policeman forty years ago , has been given leave to take court action to secure a posthumous pardon . |
| 24 | A Bosnian evacuee has opened a restaurant to help pay for his new start in Britain . |
| 25 | The whale 's new home is an enclosure in a children 's health cure resort at Laspi Bay , seven kilometres from the spot Mikhail Gorbachev chose for his presidential dacha in the Crimea , and 20 kilometres from the closed city of Sevastopol . |
| 26 | The outgoing Lord Mayor , Ulster Unionist Herbert Ditty was today fighting for his political survival in the Court area where counting was still under way . |
| 27 | The callous crook got five years after milking two families of everything they owned to pay for his luxury life in a country mansion . |
| 28 | This potentially dry subject is illustrated with an extraordinary wealth of anecdotal detail , doing for cricket what Leo Rosten did for his native language in the fabled Joys of Yiddish . |
| 29 | MICHAEL Jackson lay low in his hotel room preparing for his final concert in Taiwan today , while newspapers , consumer groups and politicians fumed at the superstar 's offstage shopping style . |
| 30 | Kempton usually rode the horse himself ( and had done so ) three weeks before the Liverpool race when Foinavon was last in the Cheltenham Gold Cup — at 500–1 — behind Woodland Venture ) , but his normal riding weight of ten stone ten pounds was way above Foinavon 's Grand National mark of ten stone , and so John Buckingham was engaged for his first ride in the great Liverpool race . |