Example sentences of "[noun] his [noun] for the " in BNC.
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1 | England are committed to a three-game summer tour in America , where Taylor wants to fine-tune his squad for the 1994 World Cup finals . |
2 | And it 's much loved by Mike Harding , entertainer and well-known walker , who has made the Dales his home for the past twenty years . |
3 | 1–3–1859 The Convener read the following letter from Claud McFie Esquire with reference to a donation of £400 which he had given to the Aged and Infirm Ministers ' Fund and a like sum to the Supplementary Sustentation Fund and in reference to which he reserved power to demand the interest during his life ; that he was anxious to promote the prosperity of the new Church of Bowmore in Islay , and now desired to appropriate the interest of the latter sum for five years , for that charge , and on this being complied with he gave up for that period his claim for the interest of the former sum , viz £400 , to the Aged and Infirm Ministers ' Fund . |
4 | He told the Commons his programme for the future of the service included creating ‘ more powerful and business-like ’ police authorities ; giving chief constables greater freedom in deciding how to spend their money ; and setting national objectives and performance standards . |
5 | He told the Commons his programme for the future of the service included creating ‘ more powerful and business-like ’ police authorities ; giving chief constables greater freedom in deciding how to spend their money ; and setting national objectives and performance standards . |
6 | He showed his world his contempt for the job by doing it very badly . |
7 | On Nov. 27 the Supreme Soviet voted for a draft resolution demanding corrections in the government 's anti-crisis programme and requesting the President to present to the Congress his candidate for the post of Prime Minister . |
8 | As with the hobbit-songs , behind all these there lies some story of a Sentence and a Great Escape , but an escape forever hindered by loving involvement with Middle-earth itself ; that is the root of the disagreement between Fangorn , Celeborn and Galadriel when the Ent half-voices his lament for the stocks and the stones . |
9 | Bitov went to Venice in 1983 for the KGB , using as cover his work for the Literary Gazette , and then approached the British asking for asylum . |
10 | 11. ( 1 ) A Member or any other person proposing to transfer any Shares shall give a Transfer Notice to the Company and the Transfer Notice shall constitute the Company his agent for the sale of the Shares therein mentioned at the Prescribed Price to any Member or Members . |
11 | 11. ( 1 ) A Member or any other person proposing to transfer any Shares shall give a Transfer Notice to the Company and the Transfer Notice shall constitute the Company his agent for the sale of the Shares therein mentioned at the Prescribed Price to any Member or Members . |
12 | His purpose in these pamphlets was to describe in detail his proposals for the layout of buildings in which , with a minimum of formal rules and supervisory staff , large numbers of people could be kept under constant surveillance ( Hume , 1973 p 706 ) . |
13 | By Friday she had arranged everything to Rob 's satisfaction , although as she handed Luke his notes for the meeting in York she still had some reservations about his reaction to his brother 's methods of expressing gratitude . |