Example sentences of "[conj] for [adj] his [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They should also know that it is very important that there must be established in the child 's mind at a very early age a dawning awareness of the fact that for all his life he will be required to submit to control from some source or other . |
| 2 | Yet looking at many young people today , the targets of communication channels unknown to their grandparents , it is hard to believe that for all his showmanship McLuhan was entirely wrong . |
| 3 | The alternative was that Richard become my legal ward , and for that his father 's signed agreement was necessary . |
| 4 | And for all his stubbornness he is in fact hinting at his readiness for a deal . |
| 5 | It was as if the sun had suddenly come out and for all his age and infirmity , Lovat caught his breath . |
| 6 | Deep as a well , and for all his strength and prowess — for he could hold his own with any boy of his age , afoot or on horseback , when he chose — looking and bearing himself like a clerk , and sometimes even like a clerk in orders . |
| 7 | As Percivall noted in 1843 ‘ One of the Professor 's projects was crowned with signal success ; and for this his name must be handed to posterity with no ordinary eclat — I mean his introduction of Ventilation into stables and other places used as the habitations of horses and cattle . |
| 8 | But for all his incompetence in wartime , Hoover was now settled in the Washington game — privileged , sanctified , unbudgeable and with more and more information to use . |
| 9 | Of his voice , it was said that he could make himself heard from the harbour mouth to his Aunt Bridget 's kitchen in a full-blown gale ; but for all his thunder and lightning , his thigh-slapping guffaws and crude sense of humour , there was in Harry a man who needed the love of a woman , a man who , having been brought up by an uncle with strictly puritan views , longed for the approval and admiration of his elders . |
| 10 | Maybe ; but for all his adoption of the imperial cause , an obstinate streak of republicanism still clung close to Thiercelin 's heart . |