Example sentences of "[to-vb] his [noun] for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Armed with papers , his head filled with lists of stockholdings , production figures , statistics of pre- and post-war profits and losses , with preliminary architectural plans for the restoration , first , of the three houses in France , and ideas for those property holdings abroad , Edouard arranged to meet his brother for a week-long series of discussions . |
| 2 | ‘ Listen ! ’ said the young man named Lawrence suddenly , and checked to strain his ears for the small , recurrent sound that had reached him . |
| 3 | Yesterday 's denoument will also turn out to be good for Edwards , who will be able to sell his stake for a good deal more than the £10m on offer . |
| 4 | In business sales cases the conflicting public interests are that a man is not at liberty to deprive himself or the community of his labour and expertise unreasonably and yet he must have a freedom to sell his business for the best price ; which may be only obtainable if he precludes himself from entering into competition with the purchaser ( see James VC in Leather Cloth Co v Lorsont ( 1869 ) LR 9 Eq 354 ) . |
| 5 | The blonde hostess leaned across him to re-charge his glass for the umpteenth time . |
| 6 | But it is almost certain Middlesbrough manager Lennie Lawrence , who has plans to strengthen his squad for the Premier League next season , will want to hold onto Ripley . |
| 7 | Despite the persistent rumours of drug use Barry commanded a considerable degree of popularity , particularly amongst the city 's 70 per cent black population , and on Jan. 21 , 1990 , he had planned to announce his candidacy for a fourth consecutive term as mayor . |
| 8 | This attitude also led him to express his distaste for the American-sponsored discussions on world trade , known as the Kennedy Round , that were currently being conducted within GATT : again , he suspected that they would produce a heightened American influence in Europe , something that would not be in Western Europe 's or France 's interests . |
| 9 | One Colombian drug boss , upon hearing in 1987 that Gen Noriega was negotiating with the US to abandon his command for a comfortable exile , sent him a hand-sized mahogany coffin engraved with his name . |
| 10 | We do not know yet whether he wants to extend his visit for a short time to see friends , or become a student , or stay permanently . ’ |
| 11 | I wish to underline his support for the United Nations in the new world order that everyone talks so much about these days , and especially his comments about the British Council , the work of the council , and the BBC World Service . |
| 12 | The rebuff did much to undermine his enthusiasm for the Conservative party . |
| 13 | In the Summer of 1958 the Home Secretary served notice to his Ministerial colleagues that he would be making demands on the Government 's expenditure programme to finance his plans for a wholesale prison rebuilding scheme . |
| 14 | A City businessman who swindled investors out of millions of pounds to finance his search for a perfect gambling system was jailed for four years . |
| 15 | I am delighted to share his wish for a modern recording of Die Liebe der Danae but is it ‘ musically much superior ’ ? |
| 16 | President George Bush had then favoured amending the Constitution in order to prohibit the practice ( and withheld his signature from the Flag Protection Act to emphasize his support for a constitutional amendment ) . |
| 17 | If the answer was ‘ stoppin' ‘ , the labourer would be given an extra shilling to fasten his contract for the next year , but he still had the rest of the day off to attend the merrymaking at the Hirings . |
| 18 | Accordingly , the haulier had to endorse his receipt for the electronic goods ‘ items under order number 7532 missing ’ . |
| 19 | Islamic states interrupted the planned order of speeches and stood up one after the other to back his call for an immediate appeal to the Security Council . |
| 20 | Policeman says : He tried to dip his headlights for an oncoming car then saw horses in the road and just could n't stop in time so ploughed into them . |
| 21 | A landowner who neglected to cultivate his land for an inordinate period of time might lose his right to retain his property and his neighbours might acquire the right to purchase and cultivate it . |
| 22 | It is probably fanciful to cast Mrs Moore as Phaedra , or the P'daytabird as Theseus , but now Lewis was crossing the sea to see his father for the last time . |
| 23 | ‘ The direct cause of the Clapham Junction accident was undoubtedly the wiring errors made by Mr Hemingway , ’ the report says , adding : ‘ He has never sought to evade his reponsibility for the appalling consequences of his errors … not one word of excuse came from Mr Hemingway . ’ |
| 24 | France 's Environment Minister , Brice Lalonde , has threatened to resign unless the government agrees to implement his plan for a new waste tax . |
| 25 | I recently heard Alan Bennett talking about the humour in his plays and he said that he began to develop his ear for the ridiculous simply by listening to members of his family . |
| 26 | He had been running , running as hard as he could to break his record for the five miles . |
| 27 | Former Massachusetts senator Paul Tsongas , 50 , who abandoned politics in 1984 after being diagnosed as suffering from cancer , became the first person to declare his candidacy for the Democratic Party 's nomination for the 1992 presidential elections . |
| 28 | De Gaulle had not waited for the end of the war to formulate his proposal for the new German settlement . |
| 29 | When Menelik founded Addis Ababa in 1889 the countryside had been forested with juniper and wild olive , but these had soon been cut down for firewood and building material , whereupon Menelik announced that he was going to move his capital for the third time . |
| 30 | Hoccleve duly begins to translate his sources for the main work next day . |