Example sentences of "[verb] his [adj] [noun sg] [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | On 21 February 1992 , he proposed his own bill to provide for a referendum on the Maastricht Treaty . |
| 2 | Like Newman , he frequently used his official status to polemicize for a holistic conception of medicine , which took in moral and social factors as part of the new scientific advances . |
| 3 | He uses his long bill to probe for worms , grubs and other insects , and as his nostrils are at the tip he has to clear it by forcing out air . ’ |
| 4 | If it is said of a barrister that he has refused to appear for an unsavoury criminal , the ordinary reader may applaud , but his professional reputation is lowered amongst colleagues who understand the story to mean that he has betrayed his ethical duty to appear for all who seek his services . |
| 5 | If at times Hope needed women to a point of desperate madness , so , at other times , he ached for wealth so badly that he heard his inner voice crooning for it , like the ululation of a gin-addicted street beggar , the sound suddenly there but as if never absent , an ancient and ineradicable longing . |
| 6 | By the second of eight peaks Ervine was well clear but continued to keep his fast pace going for the full 14 mile distance and knocked over nine minutes off the course record clocking 2 hours 14 minutes 16 seconds . |
| 7 | The 24-year-old central defender will have his right leg immobilised for six weeks and will miss the play-offs should Boro qualify . |
| 8 | ‘ To forget his faithful partner waiting for him . |
| 9 | He was jitterbugging with the recoil , and the gun 's momentum kept his first sweep going for a couple of yards even after he realised he 'd missed me . |
| 10 | They took £60 in cash from the one-legged war veteran but Coulton , 18 , learned how Mr Simpson kept his back door unlocked for visitors and returned in September to burgle the house again . |
| 11 | Then midfielder Gavin Johnson went close with a header before veteran striker Paul Goddard found the net only to see his spectacular volley disallowed for a foul on Ray Houghton . |
| 12 | There is some evidence that it was Snowden who suggested the formula of the ‘ doctor 's mandate ’ , at a Cabinet meeting on 5 October , under which the component parts of the National Government were each to issue their own manifestos , with a separate personal appeal from the Prime Minister , According to Neville Chamberlain , ‘ Snowden … produced the suggestion that the Prime Minister should issue his own manifesto asking for a free hand [ i.e. on tariffs ] and the two Party leaders should each issue their own programmes and to our astonishment this was at once accepted by the Liberals , ' Amery , who perhaps got the information from Chamberlain , wrote in his diary on 6 October , ‘ Apparently when the deadlock seemed most complete Snowden suggested that the PM should issue his own manifesto , each of the other party leaders issuing theirs . ' |
| 13 | His wife was no help to him , she was a poor , sickly creature , and he had his young sister to care for beside his own boy . |
| 14 | It occurred to him that a full belly was not all he had his tedious employment to thank for . |
| 15 | But before Willie was involved in these epic encounters , the no-nonsense Glaswegian had his own battle to fight for Trevino 's bag . |
| 16 | She imagined the young doctor coming to this simple village , the home of his grandmother , to build his business empire , getting to know and love the villagers as he did so , and deciding to live with them and spend his spare time caring for them as a doctor . |