Example sentences of "with his [noun sg] for the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another child makes the family wretched with his crying for the better part of an hour . |
| 2 | No one has to tell the England manager he got it terribly wrong with his selection for the European championship matches in Sweden . |
| 3 | The twentieth-century preference for ‘ the colloquial ’ in poetry may well be a temporary phenomenon ; Donald Davie 's Purity of Diction in English Verse ( 1952 ) , together with his admiration for the late Augustans , represent one attempt to revive an interest in the use of a ‘ civilized ’ diction ; it is interesting that he has to go back to the age before Wordsworth . |
| 4 | In general , however , his contribution to the cinema has been disappointing compared with his work for the legitimate theatre and the opera house . |
| 5 | Amer Midani , United 's second largest shareholder , had apparently annoyed Edwards last weekend by with his call for the public flotation of the shares . |
| 6 | He had lived with his past for the best part of fifty years , and his book tells what he had come to know of it over that interval of time , with help from the theories of Marx and Freud . |
| 7 | Faha Sanchita , defending , said that Uddin had 10 years of experience in the food business and had owned and run the Lalquila with his brother for the last five years without any hygiene problems . |
| 8 | The Secretary of State for Energy , Mr Nigel Lawson , had not fooled them with his praise for the fast reactor two days earlier ; for his action , to delay the work all but indefinitely , spoke louder than his words . |
| 9 | Sean Dodds , for Kelly , said he was out with his girlfriend for the first time since the birth of their baby . |
| 10 | He works in the fashion business and has lived with his girlfriend for the past six years . |
| 11 | This gave him his reputation as a young scholar of great originality , and , combined with his gift for the clear and persuasive exposition of his ideas , brought him an international range of senior academic appointments . |
| 12 | The dog is with his owner for the greater part of the weekend and , through the week , the dog is road walked to produce fitness and show condition , so the ordinary show dog , apart from receiving the care and love of his owner , receives exercise and mental stimulus and is bonded with his owner by a common purpose . |
| 13 | We are told the new C-in-C vetoed the suggestion from the outset and , in the absence of evidence from the archives , this is surely inconsistent with his demand for the agreed build-up of the Command , his determination to shed the twin-engined bombers in favour of four-engined Stirlings , Halifaxes and Lancasters , and his bitter and seemingly endless feud with the Navy ( and , to a lesser degree , the Army ) about the " milking " of his Command . |