Example sentences of "his [noun] [vb pp] for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fortescue looked surprised , as if he had expected Athelstan to keep his mouth shut for the entire interview . |
| 2 | John Hurst , the managing director of Deon who make a Ferrari Dino replica , has often had his cars mistaken for the real thing by owners of the genuine article . |
| 3 | The assassin 's blow threw him back against the wall , hitting it so hard he brought books tumbling from the shelves , but before the assassin 's fingers found his throat he delivered a punch to the man 's belly that must have touched some tender place , because the assault ceased , and the attacker let him go , his eyes fixed for the first time on Gentle 's face . |
| 4 | She hoped such mundane matters would keep his mind occupied for a good while , because , if he ever discovered how helplessly she had responded to him , Isabel knew she would die of humiliation . |
| 5 | Mr Fisher worked for several years at the Squilver Quarry as office manager , and in his retirement served for a lengthy period as Hon. |
| 6 | Manville poked a ten-dollar bill through the driver 's window as he alighted , keeping his palm extended for the full change . |
| 7 | Unaccountably his features softened for a fleeting second . |
| 8 | There is no question that any scientist who ‘ goes public ’ today will find his life transformed for the worse . |
| 9 | his mate says it 's his birthday and his dad paid for a recording session somewhere . |
| 10 | His father was an engineer and his mother worked for a minor official in the Ministry of Post and Communications . |
| 11 | In thus questioning whether poverty should be defined as existence in conditions below the barest subsistence minimum , or whether a higher minimum standard should be established in the interests of humanity and of aiming for high national standards of comfort and efficiency , Bowley and his colleagues raised for the first time some of the problems concerning the definition of poverty , which have remained at issue ever since . |