Example sentences of "[pers pn] for his [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Quite apart from Faber business , he had to settle down and write prefaces for three books as well ( one of them for his own selection of Pounds literary essays ) . |
| 2 | The other was from the Vice President in charge of Overseas ' Operations , thanking him for his personal contribution to the expansion of European Component Operations . |
| 3 | He took a sheet of Gordon 's notepaper and typed a short note to Alan Bleath , thanking him for his recent contribution to the stimulating seminar on lenses of a high refractive index , signed this with a fair approximation of Gordon 's hand and put it in one of the ‘ Gordon Beamish : See ? ’ envelopes , addressed to Alan Bleath , 329 Carradine Road , Mitcham . |
| 4 | In an exchange of views in the weekly popular magazine Ogonek in November and December Kharchev accused officials from the CPSU and the State Security Committee ( Komitet Gosudarstvennoi Bezopasnosti--KGB ) and Orthodox Church leaders of punishing him for his liberal stance on Soviet religious observance , and particularly on the status of the Uniate Church [ see below ] . |
| 5 | One of his red-letter days was the time we took him for his first ride in our newly acquired Rolls-Royce . |
| 6 | Pieda , a powerful economic group , has attacked him for his crippling levy on whisky and says the excise tax policy on the famous tipple is ‘ against the national interest and discriminates against one of the UK 's top five exporters ’ . |
| 7 | I would like to thank him for his considerable contribution to the company 's success over the last three years . |
| 8 | The West German Government honoured him for his notable work in promoting friendship between the two countries . |
| 9 | The West German Government honoured him for his notable work in promoting friendship between the two countries . |
| 10 | I shall remember him for his magnificent work in the West Riding through many years , and for his naughty and teasing sense of humour which so often cheered us up in the dismal surroundings of the Hemsworth Division and places like that , and which one realised hid a most sensitive and affectionate personality . |
| 11 | No one in Bristol — certainly not Big Mal , now 65 — was letting on exactly who hired him for his latest battle against relegation . |
| 12 | I loved him for his special attention towards me ; he made me feel important — if only to him . |