Example sentences of "[prep] his [noun sg] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He is distressed by what the Black Land has become , so soon after his departure for the Fields of Aarru . |
| 2 | ‘ He has proved a better confidential secretary than to give revealing answers , despite his weakness for the opposite sex — however beautiful , ’ Ven replied . |
| 3 | I 'd be put to work on the Looms and you 'd be — ; Well , ’ said Caspar , who , despite his work for the Court and later the Gruagach , had retained a vestige of delicacy , ‘ well , I 'd rather not say what might happen to you . |
| 4 | In foreign policy , despite his respect for the consistency of the new US President , Ronald Reagan , the Chancellor continued to argue with the Americans . |
| 5 | It appeared that he would lose money by this cancellation and despite his liking for the seaside he did n't want to go to Bournemouth . |
| 6 | Despite his praise for the achievements of the whole squad , Haguellar nevertheless singles out Henri Leconte for special comment . |
| 7 | In those Thatcherite times , there was little mention of his sympathy for the one-nation Tory , Iain Mac-leod . |
| 8 | Badran 's resignation was reportedly precipitated by royal disapproval of his sympathy for the fundamentalist Moslem Brotherhood , whose members had held five seats in his government [ see p. 37976 ] . |
| 9 | Christianity bites deep into the culture of pre-industrial societies , and in 1700 life may be full of pain and suffering and hardship ( which are not good in themselves ) but these life-experiences point to the mystery of life in Christ and the reality of his suffering for the world . |
| 10 | Saatchi has made no secret of his admiration for the work of the German painter Sigmar Polke , yet he has sold at least 17 works by the artist in his collection , including what many regard as Polke 's finest work , Paganini ; according to three separate sources of information , Saatchi has only one Polke left in his collection . |
| 11 | Professor Ruiperez of the Faculty of Letters spoke to me quite openly of his admiration for the man and the writer . |
| 12 | England boss Taylor has made no secret of his admiration for the pride and passion Adams puts into his efforts for his country . |
| 13 | Part of his admiration for the Mallorys derived from the cheerful , uncomplaining way in which they put up with discomforts and performed small acts of self-denial . |
| 14 | He gave her the money then , and said it was part of his retainer for the season . ’ |
| 15 | Because of his concern for the survival of the human race . |
| 16 | In 1763 Collinson told Bartram of his concern for the Carolina : Captain Friend being taken by the Spaniards and carried into Bilboa , but as she was taken eleven or twelve days after the treaty was signed , she has been claimed and , I hear , this day , she will be delivered . |
| 17 | He had lost most of his enthusiasm for the idea by now . |
| 18 | Once you 've pondered the crucial question of which is the bigger — Mount Everest or Blessed 's supremely affable ego , then the best course of action is simply to let the saltily ribald tidal wave of his enthusiasm for the Big Hill and its history wash over you . |
| 19 | Miss Logan would not allow the Kurd to bandage Miss Fergusson ; she accepted pieces of his shirt for the purpose , but then insisted that he turn his back . |
| 20 | Gardiner from Stroud in Gloucestershire arrived by prison bus for the start of his retrial for the murder of Alan Chalky White , a man described by the prosecution as a police informer . |
| 21 | He then tells of his love for the hills and their wildlife , in a celebration reminiscent of Nan Shepherd 's famous book The Living Mountain . |
| 22 | A priestess of Isis , the beautiful Ayesha had broken her vows for love of a Greek soldier Kallikrates who , in his turn , was in danger because of his love for the Egyptian princess Amenartas . |
| 23 | Much of his career in fact seems to have been devoted to Amazon-slaying , but it is significant that if heroes like Heracles represent the revolt of the son against the phallic mother then they also give evidence of their dependency on her when we find our hero forced to don women 's garb and do women 's work as proof of his love for the Lydian queen Omphale , while she wears his lion 's skin , brandishes his club and spanks him with her slipper if his handiwork does not please her . |
| 24 | They uncover the gap left in Thomas 's intellectual development by the death of Ashcroft Noble and his own sense of the inadequacy of his preparation for the nine terms spent at University between October 1897 and his final viva voce examination in July 1900 . |
| 25 | By May 1925 , the District owed Pateman £115 in salary arrears which amounted to almost one-half of his salary for the year and owed an even larger sum elsewhere . |
| 26 | In 1790 , when the county of Cromarty was being contested , one of the freeholders serving in the army demanded , as the price of his support for the candidate favoured by Henry Dundas , that he should be given a company in a regiment stationed in Britain . |
| 27 | It was understood that , despite Sharif 's urging him to stay on , Yaqub Khan had been under intense pressure from sections of the IDA critical of his support for the US-led alliance in the Gulf . |
| 28 | This series of strong points has been shown to have been established by Constantius Chlorus as part of his campaign for the recovery of the Province in AD 296 . |
| 29 | Several nearby Frenchmen started belatedly to the rescue , but the guilty knowledge of his responsibility for the impending disaster had lent Joseph 's legs extra speed . |
| 30 | Shaun Gooch was also accused of lying about the role of the second driver on trial , Anthony Gallagher , to wriggle out of his responsibility for the crash . |