Example sentences of "[vb -s] for his [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | … when he chuses for his skilful Tongue |
| 2 | ‘ He goes for his first walk at 10am . |
| 3 | The themes centred around the lone legionnaire who has given up his past for the Legion , yet still longs for his former life and forgotten loves , his home and his happiness . |
| 4 | Striker Bull looks for his 200th goal . |
| 5 | In Wolfenstein 's words ( 1955 ) , ‘ What the baby wants for pleasure has thus become as legitimate a demand as what he needs for his physical well-being , and is to be treated in the same way . ’ |
| 6 | The romantic element in adventure stones is one of several processes of selection by which a writer takes from his raw material — from real life , if you like — what he needs for his particular fiction . |
| 7 | Whoever cares for his own safety is lost ; but if a man will let himself be lost for my sake and for the Gospel that man is safe ( Mark 8:35 ) . |
| 8 | Hoccleve now apologises for his earlier attitude and welcomes his help , embarking on a long exposition of his case . |
| 9 | TAKING HOLLYWOOD BY STORM : Art Malik , pictured in Turtle Beach with Greta Scacchi , is very much flavour of the month after rave reviews for his latest films |
| 10 | Assistant manager , arrives for his daily inspection . |
| 11 | Since then , communism has fallen , and his once-faithful compatriots will no longer welcome him with the same fervour when he arrives for his fourth visit on June 1st . |
| 12 | Phil Edmonds encounters some resistance as he prepares for his first-class comeback |
| 13 | When Papillon prepares for his final escape and Louis says he 's not going , he sounds as if he had decided not to shave that day . ’ |
| 14 | JASON Dozzell prepares for his 400th Ipswich Town game at Manchester City tomorrow saying : ‘ We all need to step it up ten per cent . ’ |
| 15 | Next week in Tongues and Bottoms corner : Russell from Moose waits for his colonic irrigation . |
| 16 | ‘ OK , which hand ? ’ said Rick , who I believe does conjuring tricks for his small daughter . |
| 17 | This and like episodes made Siward 's name synonymous with opposition to the obnoxious ‘ Poitevin' regime in 1233–4 and accounts for his subsequent fame . |
| 18 | The question of what he was to do with himself for the rest of his life was never properly resolved in his mind or anyone else 's , which perhaps accounts for his periodic assaults on the whiskey bottle — what Minto called ‘ Warnie 's benders ’ . |
| 19 | Just as Marlowe can choose to enter into purely fantastical land of his own making , which caters for his own desires and ignores that which he is unable to cope with in the real world , Marvell can slip into his garden and is free , for a period , from the ball and chain of the world he flees from . |
| 20 | As a Life Guards officer , Major Hewitt earns around £32,000 a year — leaving a mystery over how he pays for his expensive life style . |
| 21 | GERRY Kelly returns for his fifth season of chat and entertainment in Kelly ( UTV , Friday , 10.40pm. ) with a bright new update to the title music , programme titles , and a re-decorated studio to greet his guests and live audience . |