Example sentences of "[adv] for his [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mynne was also charged with waste of timber in Carmarthenshire , presumably for his lesser ironworks in the neighbouring county of Pembroke . |
| 2 | Although he was pardoned by the King and sent into exile ( presumably for his own protection ) , there were riots against him after his release from the Tower , and when he sailed from England he was intercepted and murdered on 2 May . |
| 3 | He may build and destroy in this life , mostly for his own ends , but through Jesus , and the enlightenment he gives , comes a greater life , a fulfilling love . |
| 4 | The first is hard to explain because , although Kelly may be right in asserting that the clash was one of a kind seen every week , it was still bad enough for his own organisation to have upheld a ban on the man in the dock . |
| 5 | The American was wearing a lapel , badge , big enough for his own name and some other word . |
| 6 | He had enough for his day-to-day needs , of course , but he would be hard-pressed to see himself through another month if he was to live in the style befitting a gentleman . |
| 7 | So much for his promised imitation of a Catholic priest , she reflected bitterly . |
| 8 | ‘ Does n't care much for his fellow man . ’ |
| 9 | Ciaran Fitzgerald brought in Rob Saunders , not only for his first cap but as captain in that Championship last season . |
| 10 | The person appointed will be chosen not only for his professional experience but also for his diplomatic ability to handle particularly onerous duties ; the chairing of meetings within the firm and constant involvement in public relations without . |
| 11 | Hill knows the old and new Williams cars inside out and vastly impressed Prost not only for his technical expertise , but also his driving talent in testing at Estoril last week . |
| 12 | Miranda even managed a smile , revelling in the fact that someone apart from herself appreciated Doogie , if only for his street-fighting qualities . |
| 13 | Once Tim Renton let it be known that he was not seeking reappointment , David Mellor became a strong candidate , not only for his passionate interest in classical music and football . |
| 14 | He had had a good deal of experience of the deliberate malice of political adversaries , who felt for him a genuine fear that was replaced by contempt only for his lesser colleagues . |
| 15 | All concede that JB is famous only for his alcoholic intake and its effect . |
| 16 | Here his success was questionable and he later imported only for his own firm . |
| 17 | This principle has been extended so that a person who books a holiday on behalf of others , e.g. a husband booking on behalf of himself his wife and children , may obtain damages not only for his own disappointment etc. but also for the disappointment sustained by his wife and children . |
| 18 | His home in Majorca had been built not only for his own retirement but as somewhere to provide temporary refuge for disadvantaged children . |
| 19 | We gave him whiskey and had n't to tie him up till the morning and that was only for his own good . ’ |
| 20 | Then , realizing the cost and risk of setting up an American operation only for his own films , he backtracked and arranged for US to handle his company 's big-budget pictures . |
| 21 | However , Maskelyne had a high opinion of his abilities , lending him considerable sums and securing for him commissions for instruments , not only for his own observatory at Greenwich , but also for new instruments for Eger in Hungary , Mannheim , and Florence . |
| 22 | James I , when he came to the throne in 1603 , according to Isaacson ‘ admired him beyond all other divines , not only for his transcendent gift in preaching , but for his excellency and solidity in all kinds of learning , selecting him as his choicest instrument , to vindicate his regality against his foul-mouthed adversaries ’ . |
| 23 | Jolly was already a well known celebrity , not only for his pre-match evangelising but also for his best-selling books on clerical life , Vicars in a Twist and Bare Butts in the Belfry . |
| 24 | I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman , not only for his robust statement about democracy but also for his very kind personal words . |
| 25 | Paulus had acquired the soubriquet , Catena : the chain , not only for his wanton use of this means of fettering large numbers of suspects , but also for the tangled web of intrigue and innuendo he wove round his victims . |
| 26 | Several men tore the photo from his hands , ripped it up and stamped on it before police led the man away , apparently for his own protection . |
| 27 | TOM Courtenay fidgets in the chair , runs his fingers through hair grown long for his new stage role and chooses his words carefully before answering any question . |
| 28 | He has cared deeply that his contemporaries and juniors should write well ; he has cared less for his personal achievement than for the life of letters and art . |
| 29 | Vegetius was important less for his technical advice than for the general philosophical message on the conduct of war which his work contained . |
| 30 | Arguably he was known to Londoners less for his medical expertise than for his incredible eccentricity , which was exaggerated by a long beard , a predilection for extraordinary costume and his habit of riding about in the streets and Hyde Park on a white pony , which he sometimes painted all purple or , when the mood took him , purple with black spots . |