Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] his [noun sg] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Carrie nodded , her eyes searching his face for something . |
| 2 | Since Gadfly readers know his fondness for public transport perhaps there will be a substantial saving when it happens . |
| 3 | Steve succeeded John Sewell as Palace 's captain , but in September 1971 he moved over to Chelsea for a fee quoted as £170,000 , as Bert Head sought funds to reshape his squad for 1st Division survival . |
| 4 | Poor dear Tony stood there with mushrooms in his ears examining his hat for damage . |
| 5 | Graham was staring , and saw the woman 's eyes flicker his way for a moment . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | His parents remember his fondness for writing , and in the groups that preceded The Wedding Present , he was clumsily relating the world in which he lived and trying to understand it through his own lyrics . |
| 8 | But it is almost certain Middlesbrough manager Lennie Lawrence , who has plans to strengthen his squad for the Premier League next season , will want to hold onto Ripley . |
| 9 | His name has been moderately conjured with by British academics , but there have been few attempts to systematize his work for the classroom , as has happened in the United States . |
| 10 | BRITISH Telecom 's ‘ Mr Sickie ’ who took more than three years off with illnesses withdrew his claim for unfair dismissal yesterday . |
| 11 | Three times during that year , Cottle was called before medical boards to assess his fitness for active service . |
| 12 | Is he involved in the coaching end of things using his experience for the young guys ? |
| 13 | In the same year , 1955 , Khrushchev had got his first close view of his adversary , Dulles , at the Geneva summit conference , passing notes to Eisenhower who , Khrushchev decided disapprovingly , was letting Dulles do his thinking for him . |
| 14 | A City businessman who swindled investors out of millions of pounds to finance his search for a perfect gambling system was jailed for four years . |
| 15 | I did not have the skill to formulate sound arguments to counteract his taste for lawlessness , and explain why I could not partake in it . |
| 16 | The three Service Chiefs welcomed his preference for evolution rather than continuing and abrasive revolution , but the doubts and suspicions that they had about Mountbatten 's impartiality made it difficult for him to rebuild complete confidence between his staff at the Ministry of Defence and the Service ministries . |
| 17 | Now that was true until the late sixties early seventies and of course er you find there the election to the o to the White House of one Richard Milhous Nixon , conservative Republican er a man who was not above hiring gangsters and burglars to do his work for him , and this produced a reaction and if you read the , the presidential literature of the nineteen seventies you will find the opposite , you will find er political scientists , all American , er demanding reforms of the American system , not to make the president more powerful but to make the president less powerful . |
| 18 | He is a quiet , unassuming man who prefers to let his athletes do his talking for him . |
| 19 | In 1756 , for example , John Drummond , supervisor of excise at Paisley , and a freeholder of Perthshire , mustered all of his connections to aid his bid for advancement to the office of general supervisor at Glasgow . |
| 20 | The end of that talk was that Farmer Olinton said he 'd be only too pleased for the Brownies to use his loft for Pack Meetings , and if Miss Truscott would call on him they 'd arrange the whole thing . |
| 21 | Despite his ferocious criticism of Bush 's record as President , however , Buchanan went to great lengths to emphasize his respect for Bush 's service in the Pacific War and his " graciousness , honour and integrity " . |
| 22 | The final sections of ‘ Van Gogh ’ are particularly masterly : as the painter painfully dies in the little village inn , his friends lament his passing for a moment and then get on with the business of the day — shopping , washing clothes , preparing for work . |
| 23 | His parents did n't send him here to have the teachers live his life for him . ’ |
| 24 | In a joint paper with Safir , Suits verified his model for mature corn and discussed its application to blight detection . |
| 25 | But for Mr Maurice Healey , 13 years spent testing the strength of cotton and looking for flaws caused his passion for painting to blossom . |
| 26 | The two tries wing GLEN WEBBE scored against Saracens took his total for Bridgend to 250 — and he has since increased that to 255 . |
| 27 | When one of the children asks his mam for some coffee she says , " We ca n't afford coffee any more , son . " |
| 28 | The times suited his predilection for historical references in clothes , for dressing up , for being glamorous and the collections he did then saw him develop sureness of touch allied with a taste for a dangerous dare or two which characterised much of what he does today . |
| 29 | The dhāmi stoops his head for the garland 's embrace . |
| 30 | Similarly Fawn Hall , asked by North to alter memoranda to conceal his work for the contras , remembered feeling uneasy : ‘ but I believe in Colonel North , and I know that there must have been a good reason why he was asking me to do this , and I — I did as I was told . ’ |