Example sentences of "[vb pp] his [noun sg] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | FORMER England captain Terry Butcher has won his fight for a football future at Sunderland . |
| 2 | With the publication of the fifth and final volume of his catalogue of Monet 's life and art , Daniel Wildenstein and his family foundation , now to be known as the Wildenstein Institute , has brought to completion the mighty project which has occupied his attention for more than fifty years . |
| 3 | I 'd forgotten his passion for manipulation . ’ |
| 4 | Kim Bailey 's gelding , a promising runner-up to Remittance Man at Wincanton recently , booked his place for the big race with a satisfactory two mile gallop after racing at Newbury yesterday . |
| 5 | The King has disclaimed his love for his offspring and therefore broken the family bond that Cordelia speaks of . |
| 6 | Put on my mettle , I told them as simply as I could of how Tony , Poll and Doreen had made their ‘ Feast ’ , burying their doll ( I substituted doll for scouter ) and covering the mound with flowers ; and how , at the end , as a simple token of courtesy or affection , Tony had presented his penis for Doreen 's pleasure . |
| 7 | He would not even have turned his head for anyone else , but in the presence of his enemy , now truly and irrevocably his , no longer merely the legacy of his father 's wrongs , he stiffened his back and reared his head . |
| 8 | On the day after the Cease Fire he had been granted an audience with the Chairman of the Revolutionary Council and he had argued his case for the revitalisation of his dream . |
| 9 | When I met him he 'd just done his shopping for two weeks . |
| 10 | Rumsey in West Ham Ward used the same programme , but also issued a leaflet giving details of how he won the DCM , concluding ‘ Do your bit by voting for the man who has done his bit for you ’ . |
| 11 | I done his bird for him : I think it 's what you call love or something ! |
| 12 | It is difficult to understand why the judges selected his design for second prize , as the assessors had rejected it by saying that it was ‘ Too expensive and involving too great a sacrifice of property ’ , and were supported by Brunel and Burn . |
| 13 | Essex Middleton cup manager Norman Groves has selected his side for the second trial match against Berkshire Under-35s to be played at the Esso BC , Abingdon , on Sunday morning . |
| 14 | Very little is recorded of his subsequent activities but on 22 March 778 he ordered three duces ( ealdormen ) to be slain by the nobles , Aethelbald and Heardberht — Ealdwulf , son of Bosa , at Coniscliffe and Cynewulf and Ecga at Helathirnum ( ASC D , s.a. 778 ) , and this action may have weakened his position for in the following year he was driven out by Aelfwald , son of Oswulf ( ASC D , s.a. 778 ) . |
| 15 | Shamrocks coach Peter Murphy has also named his panel for the series , and it includes eight Ulster players — three from Queen 's , two each from Banbridge and Cookstown , and one from Lisnagarvey . |
| 16 | Martinho had lost no time in recounting the true details of Osvaldo 's moment of weakness , the point at which he 'd flipped his lid for the first and last time in his career , that murderous aberration which had been the doom of old friend and new foe alike . |
| 17 | On Jan. 2 the body of 17-year-old Andrés Arturo Gutiérrez Maya , who had confessed his responsibility for the March 1990 murder of Bernardo Jaramillo Ossa , the presidential candidate of the left-wing Patriotic Union party ( UP ) [ see p. 37312 ] , was found , along with that of his father , in an abandoned car in Medellín . |
| 18 | ( The PLAYER has not moved his position for his last four lines . |
| 19 | Already in the ‘ O magnum mysterium ’ of the 1587 volume of Concerti , he had revealed his penchant for festive passages in triple time . |
| 20 | The contrast between the two men of near-identical appearance is shown in a less formal , more novelistic manner in the character of the King , depicted in The Prisoner of Zenda as a weak , pleasure-loving young man trying to equip himself for his destiny and in Rupert of Hentzau as a man ill in body , weaned by matters of state , gradually coming to resent his obligations to the man whose courage and energy have twice saved his position for him and burdened by jealous suspicions of his wife 's fidelity . |
| 21 | Dario Gradi , Crewe 's manager thought White would be playing up front , and prepared his defence for that . |
| 22 | He stood in the corridor outside while the priest prepared his wife for death . |
| 23 | His acknowledgement is thoroughly deserved considering how the ex-Arsenal and Coventry boss has transferred his passion for the game into a Chelsea side , which is a delightful mixture of kids like Eddie Newton and Frank Sinclair and mature professionals such as Andy Townsend and Mick Harford . |
| 24 | She wondered at her own weakness in craving for a man who had professed his love for her and made her with child , only to walk away without even a backward glance . |
| 25 | He had made his debut for Guyana ( then British Guiana ) in 1963–4 as a nineteen year old , and joined Lancashire in 1968 . |
| 26 | ‘ The state some of these old boys let their bodies get into , old Fred there ai n't seen his dick for ten years . ’ |
| 27 | A British audience will not have seen his work for more than twenty years , although he was included by his earlier art in the Tate Gallery 's ‘ St Ives ’ exhibition of 1985 , and the new works , delicately constructed and monochromatic in colour , will be a happy surprise . |
| 28 | Robert Bolt , the eminent playwright who had produced A Man For All Seasons and had just seen his screenplay for Lawrence of Arabia completed , wanted Ken for a Puck-like part for his forthcoming play , Gentle Jack . |
| 29 | The Grand Bazaar on 19th–21st November 1891 realised over £6,000 — much more than Agnew had hoped for , and by the end of 1892 , Agnew had met his target for the Building Fund , and work commenced on the new Institute . |
| 30 | The general verdict was that he had secured his leadership for years to come . |