Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] his [noun] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Anderson has been using the case to support his argument for a change in the law to allow suppliers to recover goods supplied to a customer who goes out of business before paying for them . |
| 2 | The section prohibits canvassing in the sense of the attempt of an applicant or of another person at his instigation to influence a member of a licensing board to support his application for a grant , renewal or permanent transfer of a licence , or for a regular extension of permitted hours before the application is considered by the board ( subs . |
| 3 | Request : In the guise of pop-group ‘ The Howlers ’ ( ‘ We play loud modern rock music not entirely lacking in melodies ’ ) , we contacted the portly football fan to request his consent for a song ( and concept album ) to be titled ‘ Mad Hattersley 's Tea Party ’ . |
| 4 | It has been estimated that one farmworker loses his job for every 750 acres of set-aside . |
| 5 | Mayor dropped his plans for the new committee and agreed to keep the Executive Board more fully informed of his actions in future . |
| 6 | Ste Barbe 's episcopal acta confirm his sympathy for the ethos of the Yorkshire monastic reform movement . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Clement wrote a pamphlet giving his reasons for the split and accusing Wilson of mismanagement , irresponsible militancy and the encouragement of foreign seamen into Britain , presumably because of his refusal to accept a rule which would debar them from membership . |
| 9 | If a man was workshy and mutinous I would put him in a cell to cool his heels for a while . |
| 10 | The Sunday Citizen explained his enthusiasm for the Profumo affair because of a long-cherished personal grudge against Profumo and of having unearthed a juicy scandal by snooping that would have done credit to a divorce detective . |
| 11 | The moment came , and in walked Robin and Henrietta Tavistock ; his expression was one of sheer amazement , and when he saw his father the Duke of Bedford , whom he thought was at his chalet in Méribel , I saw tears of emotion flood his eyes for a moment . |
| 12 | 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 ) . |
| 13 | A small boy asked his mother for a cucumber to take to Sunday School . |
| 14 | A milkman who set up a round in competition with his old dairy firm has won a legal battle to continue his business for the time being . |
| 15 | 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 ) . |
| 16 | On Jan. 10 Lewandowski told a Sejm committee assessing his candidacy for the post of Minister of Ownership Transformations that the performance of the share offer indicated that a different approach to privatization was needed , and he said that he favoured distributing to all Polish citizens free vouchers to be exchanged for shares . |
| 17 | Mr. Thornton submits that this passage supports his argument for the defendant in the instant case , but it seems to their Lordships that it is at best neutral . |
| 18 | Analysts were agreed that the demonstration was part of Cárdenas 's plan to build a popular anti-government campaign to boost his campaign for the presidency in 1994 . |
| 19 | Grandmasters were a little surprised by Yusupov 's decision to surrender his bishop for a knight on move 22 , but the resulting position never looked like ending in anything other than a draw . |
| 20 | A STRAIGHT-talking tycoon ditched his plan for a pork pie factory when a council official told him : ‘ Call me Mister . ’ |
| 21 | The wife is the means through which a man transmits his lineage to his son ; she is often compared to a field in which her husband sows his seed for the continuation of his lineage . |
| 22 | Inconvenience — the trials are liable to require the teacher to distort his plans for the course in order to accommodate the new material when asked . |
| 23 | De Gaulle had not waited for the end of the war to formulate his proposal for the new German settlement . |
| 24 | The screw at the other end of the room held his gaze for a moment and then looked away . |
| 25 | If the dispute is over the value of the security for the debt held by the creditor , the court may require the creditor to revalue his security for the purposes only of the demand . |
| 26 | Dane Jacobsen was one of the best known and most accomplished actors of his generation , so it had been a real coup for the tiny television station to secure his services for a drama serial on the Vikings , to be shot in Cumbria . |
| 27 | How does the hon. Gentleman square his enthusiasm for the right of veto on that occasion with the decision of the leader of his party that he would give way at Maastricht on all the issues that are now being discussed ? |
| 28 | DEAN SAUNDERS last night pleaded his innocence for the challenge that may have put Paul Elliott out for the season . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Now , in the absence of team conductor Paul Gascoigne , Clough has a chance to stake his claim for the autumn World Cup climax … if Taylor survives at the home of the New England Patriots . |