Example sentences of "[vb -s] his [noun] for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bob Hodson phones the Wilton sales office on a Thursday and places his order for the following week . |
| 2 | Sir Hugo Mallinger , to a limited extent , uses his property for the common good , not least in raising Daniel Deronda ; Grandcourt regards his inheritance as the means by which he can indulge his vices . |
| 3 | It has been estimated that one farmworker loses his job for every 750 acres of set-aside . |
| 4 | He smiles broadly as he describes his nomination for the Best Actor award alongside Nick Nolte for Princes of Tides , as ‘ wonderful , fabulous and an honour . |
| 5 | For suppose that he , tired as he must be , closes his eyes for a few moments . |
| 6 | Unlike baby goslings which lock on to the first moving object in sight , the newborn baby will be relatively undiscriminating about who tends his needs for the first three or four months of life . |
| 7 | I hope he scores a try and if he keeps his place for the Five Nations at my expense , good luck to him . ’ |
| 8 | Hooper is taking nothing for granted as Souness contemplates his line-up for the vital clash , his latest worry being Michael Thomas ' ankle injury which makes him doubtful with Steve McManaman . |
| 9 | Hooper is taking nothing for granted as Souness contemplates his line-up for the vital clash , his latest worry being Michael Thomas ' ankle injury which makes him doubtful with Steve McManaman . |
| 10 | He , rightly in my view , expresses his dislike for the constant advertisements . |
| 11 | Interestingly , in Book VI of The Faerie Queene Sir Calidore , or Courtesy , abandons his quest for the Blatant Beast to experience a pastoral idyll . |
| 12 | When he changes his models for a vulgar Cockney girl and a vagabond Italian his illustrations of lords and ladies immediately come to life . |
| 13 | After grappling over the course of the novel with his essential nature and that of those around him , he finally renounces his quest for a fixed meaning , a completed story : |
| 14 | Ms Johnston uses the world war as a springboard into other conflicts ; that between England and Ireland ; between Ireland north and south , and even within the south itself , as the English officers look down on the Irish men , and the northern Irish sergeant barely conceals his contempt for the southern Catholics in his ranks . |