Example sentences of "[verb] his [noun pl] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A used car dealer is offering a ten thousand pound reward to track down arsonists who 've attacked his premises for the second time in two weeks . |
| 2 | We did n't discuss his plans for the day , only mine , and those I presume are hardly of interest to you . ’ |
| 3 | Dane Jacobsen was one of the best known and most accomplished actors of his generation , so it had been a real coup for the tiny television station to secure his services for a drama serial on the Vikings , to be shot in Cumbria . |
| 4 | He described his proposals for the coming year as neutral because he did not want to hamper recovery . |
| 5 | But Gary was keeping his predictions for the gilt market restrained . |
| 6 | As he bent his knees for a closer look , a single spot of blood from his cut hand fell on to a wing ; shocking crimson on the pale surface , spreading into a crude blotch . |
| 7 | He sucked his teeth for a minute . |
| 8 | The little man sucked his teeth for a moment . |
| 9 | ‘ Listen ! ’ said the young man named Lawrence suddenly , and checked to strain his ears for the small , recurrent sound that had reached him . |
| 10 | Asked whether executive chairman De Benedetti would be ready to sell his shares for the sake of the company , Passera pointed out that in the current capital-raising exercise , he is injecting $180m , and has burdened his own company with additional debt to help Olivetti . |
| 11 | If Isabel can include in the time she spends with him developing his skills for a propensity for being slightly more economic in his travel and hospitality arrangements , I guess we 'd be even more pleased . |
| 12 | Mayor dropped his plans for the new committee and agreed to keep the Executive Board more fully informed of his actions in future . |
| 13 | Radford himself early in March dropped his ideas for a " quick fix " . |
| 14 | He swapped his skis for a pair with sharper edges . |
| 15 | Mr Beggs said a number of Southern politicians support his demands for an inquiry and he hoped the issue would be raised when the Dail resumes again in October . |
| 16 | He describes his fears for the future in his book , Architect or Bee ? |
| 17 | Diana , for her part , thought she would become a wife and mother ; but , with all the servants and secretaries who surrounded the Prince , including a valet who selected and prepared his clothes for the day , packed for him and even did his personal shopping , she felt superfluous , and just a little jealous . |
| 18 | He 'd give his ears for a bike of his own . |
| 19 | Thus , although it has been stated that there are practically no high kicks in kung fu , the practitioner who emulates the crane is training his legs for the highest possible kicks . |
| 20 | To Sara , more hard-pressed than ever at Lime Street , the intellectual and emotional sympathy binding Coleridge and Dorothy must have been both apparent and distressing , even if Dorothy , in De Quincey 's words , was a woman possessing ‘ no personal charms ’ : on only the second day of the visit Coleridge and Dorothy were occupied together correcting his poems for the new edition while Sara was left to carry the domestic burdens of the teeming cottage . |
| 21 | She noticed his teeth for the first time : small and irregular , like pieces of gravel on a driveway , but sparkling white . |
| 22 | Hopes of the Economy Minister , Domingo Cavallo , for quick progress in talks begun in January over the Argentina 's foreign debt received a setback in mid-February when creditor banks rejected his requests for a 40 per cent cut in the country 's US$31,000 million commercial bank debt , under the terms of the 1989 Brady debt reduction plan [ see pp. 36541-42 ] . |
| 23 | Harold was flexing his muscles for the perfect balance , teeth bared , knife poised over his head . |
| 24 | Howard re-iterated his demands for the Nez Perce to settle at Lapwai , but said that they would be given hunting and fishing passes for the Imnaha valley . |
| 25 | For suppose that he , tired as he must be , closes his eyes for a few moments . |
| 26 | Unlike baby goslings which lock on to the first moving object in sight , the newborn baby will be relatively undiscriminating about who tends his needs for the first three or four months of life . |
| 27 | And he is still expected to step up his ambitious attempt to land QPR striker Les Ferdinand and complete his plans for a return to the big time . |
| 28 | Havelock Wilson who had , of course , been among those leaders to whom Larkin 's vituperation had been particularly directed , reserved his regrets for the oppressed people of Ireland whose cause had been so ill served by the " blunders and follies " of Larkin who " had such a splendid case , but made such a sorry mess of it , doing everything he ought not to have done and nothing that he ought to " and bringing , by his defeat , comfort to the Irish employers who had nothing good to be said for them at all . |
| 29 | Today Mark joined his colleagues for a training session in Armagh during which fitness tests were carried out on Mark and John Grimley , Ciaran McGurk and Gerard Houlahan . |
| 30 | In doing so , he forgot his fears for a moment . |