Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] his [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Anderson has been using the case to support his argument for a change in the law to allow suppliers to recover goods supplied to a customer who goes out of business before paying for them . |
| 2 | The first news of the coup was a statement signed by Yanayev , Pavlov and Baklanov and distributed bythe official news agency Tass on the morning of Aug. 19 , saying that , in keeping with the Constitution , presidential power had been transferred to Vice-President Gennady Yanayev " due to Mikhail Gorbachev 's inability to perform his duties for health reasons " , and that a state of emergency had been introduced in ( unspecified ) parts of the Soviet Union for six months to overcome " the profound crisis , political , ethnic and civil strife , chaos and anarchy that threaten the lives and security of the Soviet Union 's citizens " . |
| 3 | The section prohibits canvassing in the sense of the attempt of an applicant or of another person at his instigation to influence a member of a licensing board to support his application for a grant , renewal or permanent transfer of a licence , or for a regular extension of permitted hours before the application is considered by the board ( subs . |
| 4 | In cases where an employee sues his employer for breach of statutory duty , the court will be slow to find that the employer was guilty of contributory negligence . |
| 5 | I shall return to this point later , but must first record how matters went in the Divisional Court , omitting for present purposes any reference to an alternative ground of relief concerning the Director 's refusal to wait whilst the applicant pursued his application for legal aid , which failed in the Divisional Court and was not renewed on appeal . |
| 6 | Request : In the guise of pop-group ‘ The Howlers ’ ( ‘ We play loud modern rock music not entirely lacking in melodies ’ ) , we contacted the portly football fan to request his consent for a song ( and concept album ) to be titled ‘ Mad Hattersley 's Tea Party ’ . |
| 7 | He stood in the corridor outside while the priest prepared his wife for death . |
| 8 | It has been estimated that one farmworker loses his job for every 750 acres of set-aside . |
| 9 | Mayor dropped his plans for the new committee and agreed to keep the Executive Board more fully informed of his actions in future . |
| 10 | Ste Barbe 's episcopal acta confirm his sympathy for the ethos of the Yorkshire monastic reform movement . |
| 11 | So this poet attacks his Friend for hoarding his beauty until it will be ‘ self-kill 'd ’ ( 6.4 ) . |
| 12 | In the Summer of 1958 the Home Secretary served notice to his Ministerial colleagues that he would be making demands on the Government 's expenditure programme to finance his plans for a wholesale prison rebuilding scheme . |
| 13 | Clement wrote a pamphlet giving his reasons for the split and accusing Wilson of mismanagement , irresponsible militancy and the encouragement of foreign seamen into Britain , presumably because of his refusal to accept a rule which would debar them from membership . |
| 14 | As soon as she had realized that he was making no attempt to disguise his liking for her , she had known that there was no hope . |
| 15 | Anti-clockwise from above : at home with a Lo Lifer — respect to Ice Cube and Polo 's teddy bear logo ; Superia 's album charts his penchant for Lauren gear ; straight outta the Ivy League — Brooklyners Anthony , Danny and Superia doff the godfather of prep ; graffiti on the projects |
| 16 | Crawford 's big production number , It Only Takes a Moment , came during the film 's last half-hour , as Cornelius Hackl declares his love for Irene Molloy , played by Marianne McAndrew . |
| 17 | A proposal to require the President to present his nominee for Prime Minister to Congress for approval was defeated by four votes ; the motion demanding parliamentary approval for other key appointments lost by only one vote . |
| 18 | However , despite an apparent dictum to the contrary , the Torquay Hotel principle does not , it is submitted , extend to imposing liability in a case where A has , without any unlawful act , done no more than persuade B to exercise an option open to him under his contract with C , for example , to terminate it by proper notice , for so to hold would be to draw an indefensible distinction between existing , but terminable , relationships and those which are merely prospective , and render it necessary to fall back on the defence of justification in order , for example , lawfully to persuade an employee to change his employment for higher pay . |
| 19 | If a man was workshy and mutinous I would put him in a cell to cool his heels for a while . |
| 20 | Her glance searched his face for some clue as to what he meant , and when he failed to enlighten her she asked , ‘ This relationship , you mean ? ’ |
| 21 | When Dr A B Granville published his famous and best-selling guidebook , The Spas of England in 1841 , he made very clear in the opening chapters of his mammoth work his distaste for what he regarded as ‘ the lower orders of society ’ . |
| 22 | The Sunday Citizen explained his enthusiasm for the Profumo affair because of a long-cherished personal grudge against Profumo and of having unearthed a juicy scandal by snooping that would have done credit to a divorce detective . |
| 23 | The French Flyer makes his debut for Cheltenham 's United team tomorrow , so On y vas . |
| 24 | The moment came , and in walked Robin and Henrietta Tavistock ; his expression was one of sheer amazement , and when he saw his father the Duke of Bedford , whom he thought was at his chalet in Méribel , I saw tears of emotion flood his eyes for a moment . |
| 25 | In business sales cases the conflicting public interests are that a man is not at liberty to deprive himself or the community of his labour and expertise unreasonably and yet he must have a freedom to sell his business for the best price ; which may be only obtainable if he precludes himself from entering into competition with the purchaser ( see James VC in Leather Cloth Co v Lorsont ( 1869 ) LR 9 Eq 354 ) . |
| 26 | I 'm devastated … a man who suffered brain damage loses his fight for compensation . |
| 27 | A small boy asked his mother for a cucumber to take to Sunday School . |
| 28 | A milkman who set up a round in competition with his old dairy firm has won a legal battle to continue his business for the time being . |
| 29 | Clearly he is a man who , on the night in question allowed his enthusiasm for sex to overcome normal behaviour . ’ |
| 30 | The jazz scene confirmed his liking for youthful excitement and the importance that his student friends now had in his life is registered in a series of portraits . |