Example sentences of "[vb base] his [noun] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Doctors ordered the star , who had been playing up to 150 gigs every year for the last 10 years , to rest or maybe wreck his voice for good . |
| 2 | Scarlatti and Bach reveal his ear for tonal colour , and miniatures as unlike as Beethoven 's Ecossaise in E flat and his own ear-tickling Valse amour confirm him as a charmer of the first order . |
| 3 | And may the odd knife his great carcass dissect ; Lay open his vitals for all to inspect A heart full as black as the infernal gulf In that greedy , blood-sucking , bone scraping wolf . |
| 4 | They recall his taste for long walks of twenty to twenty-five miles in rural settings away from Battersea , his passion for fishing in ponds and canals , and his accurate enlightening knowledge of birds , trees , insects , and flowers . |
| 5 | Since Gadfly readers know his fondness for public transport perhaps there will be a substantial saving when it happens . |
| 6 | Find his pay for 38 hours work . |
| 7 | He makes a pact with the devil whereby the devil will be his servant and do his bidding for 24 years , after which time he will render up his immortal soul . |
| 8 | Through reading the Bible we discover fundamental truths about God , and see them demonstrated by events in the lives of his people which illuminate his character and illustrate his will for all men at all times . |
| 9 | Every morning I thank his maker for that . ’ |
| 10 | A Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman on Oct. 10 rejected a proposal made by the Dalai Lama in a speech in the USA on Oct. 9 to return to Tibet for the first time since 1959 , and demanded that he abandon his support for Tibetan independence . |
| 11 | Every year we buy his work for more than the year before and every year we sell for more than the year before 1991 being no exception . |