Example sentences of "[prep] his [noun] [verb] [pron] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | He flushed with anger when he remembered how the legal aid he had levied to furnish her to her wedding had brought in only miserable trickles of money on the date appointed , and how he had been forced to send out letters to all and sundry requesting loans to help to pay for her clothes and dowry , and even to borrow abjectly from the City of London and some of its richest citizens , with all the members of his council pledging themselves for repayment , so low was his own credit fallen . |
| 2 | He says they stopped selling replica handguns because he suspected that some of his customers wanted them for possible criminal reasons . |
| 3 | A FATHER who has every justification for being very proud of his daughter nominates her for this week 's bouquet . |
| 4 | The deference of his courtiers did nothing for this — that was a piece from a different jigsaw puzzle he had already solved . |
| 5 | he was merely pandering to his feelings did nothing for the children he left behind . |
| 6 | Whereupon I fell about in my chair at this with an effective simulacrum of sycophancy , then matadored the old charm around in front of him for a few minutes , and before you could say fundador Walt was on his knees begging me for the coup de grâce . |
| 7 | This " touched Booth more deeply than any lavish endowment " but lie was loathe for his officer to deny himself for such a long stretch of time . |
| 8 | In the forty third minute , Foyle volleyed wide from fifteen yards when really he should have been on target after receiving from Magilton , and as referee Taylor was looking at his whistle to blow it for half time , United skipper , Steve Foster drove forward from the edge of the penalty area , shrugged off a couple of challenges , hit a good low shot , seemingly under the body of Gosney , but Gosney 's body just halted the flow of the ball . |