Example sentences of "[prep] his [noun] [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | while he was lying on the massage table after his innings waiting for a doctor , Warner and Palairet called to express sympathy . |
| 2 | Probably an amalgam of two mass-circulation papers The New York Herald and The Morning Courier and New-York Enquirer ( edited by James Gordon Bennett and Colonel Watson Webb respectively ) : both papers attacked CD in the most scurrilous fashion after his speeches calling for an International Copyright Agreement . |
| 3 | Einstein spent the later years of his life looking for such a theory . |
| 4 | All right , yes , ’ knowing that she would n't be able to do it ; there were so many factors against it : the old woman along the corridor depending on her ; Charlie , who had given up a good part of his life waiting for her . |
| 5 | Somebody who has spent 40 years of his life working for the Scottish Transport Group would receive two thirds of his pensionable salary on retirement . |
| 6 | He 's always been fond of animals and spent much of his life working for their welfare . |
| 7 | Although no evidence of his activities before 1643 survives , we know that by then he had married , had established a house and warehouse at Leadenhall Street , and had brought over many of his relatives to work for him in England . |
| 8 | Finally , the exporter could open a dollar account at his own bank in Germany , ( or with BAB in New York ) and then use the proceeds of his exports to pay for imports from the USA and other countries . |
| 9 | And there the momentum of his pursuit faltered for the first time . |
| 10 | That 'll mean he 'll flail the lot of them tonight , an' there wo n't be a penny of his pay left for her . |
| 11 | Roseau 's appeal to members of his association to vote for the Gaullists carried considerable weight . |
| 12 | The important points which emerge from this case are that the employer will be able to rely on this part of the duty of fidelity if it can be shown that the employee works for a trade competitor in his spare time and : ( a ) knows of business secrets which may be of use to the competitor and/or ( b ) occupies a position which makes it expedient to recognise the existence of his duty to work for the employer alone . |
| 13 | The Aston Villa centre half , now settled comfortably back in the Irish fold after the controversy of his failure to appear for the game in Albania three weeks ago , is a major figure in Charlton 's plans . |
| 14 | He issued the text of his decree calling for a nationwide vote of confidence , and it omitted any reference to the special powers he had claimed on Saturday during a televised address . |
| 15 | We do know that it was not until the late summer of 1965 that he gave private indications of his intention to stand for a second term , and not until 4 November that he made his decision public . |
| 16 | One teacher found one of his pupils waiting for him , half-naked , in the back of his car . |
| 17 | Also , because of his terrible sense of direction , he would get lost when hunting for the wrong things and Endill had to spend much of his time searching for him , almost getting lost himself . |
| 18 | Boy had dreams in which he spent all his money and most of his time shopping for and carrying home bulbs , seed packets , leafless vines and small , bare-branched trees . |
| 19 | Their father was a cabman and spent most of his time waiting for fares outside the Railway Station , the horse-drawn cabs being owned by Ivamy 's of Milford Street . |
| 20 | She hoped for his sake the memory of his time working for MacQuillan would quickly fade . |
| 21 | Soon he was spending most of his time rehearsing for Same Time , Next Year and she went back to America . |
| 22 | James was speaking at his home in Shepherds Bush , West London , as members of his family gathered for a celebration party . |
| 23 | Ultimately he believes that harmonisation of duty within the European Community must happen , but he is not sitting on the edge of his seat waiting for it : ‘ Politically we understand that uniform EC excise duty will not happen overnight , but alcohol is alcohol and we should be taxing alcohol volume and not the form that it comes in . ’ |
| 24 | Some of his commissions continued for many years ; at both Chirk Castle and Erddig he supervised the landscaping for twenty-four years . |
| 25 | She opened the door and stared in astonishment at the tall , strongly built man who was standing with his hand raised for another assault on her bell . |
| 26 | And he revealed that he was too busy to tune into his son-in-law fighting for political life on Wednesday night 's TV news . |
| 27 | Howard tilts the card back and forth until he has seen the couple in the corner leave , and the manager quietly coping with a customer who refuses to pay the bill , then puts it carefully into his pocket to save for his children , who love this kind of toy . |
| 28 | In their world it is not the father of the bride who digs into his pocket to pay for the wedding . |
| 29 | He spoke to the waiter , and struggling into his coat made for the street door . |
| 30 | Excluded property which is not to be included in the estate of a person ( which means the aggregate of all the property to which that person is beneficially entitled including settled property in which he has an interest in possession ) immediately before his death embraces for CTT purposes : ( a ) settled property situated outside the United Kingdom unless the settlor was domiciled in the United Kingdom at the time the settlement was made ; and ( b ) securities issued by the Treasury subject to the condition that they shall be exempt from taxation while in the beneficial ownership of persons neither domiciled nor ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom provided in the case of settled property either that such . |