Example sentences of "who [verb] his [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Coskun Yenici , aged 28 , who sold his kidney for £3,000 to finance medical treatment for his father , had to carry the other donor , Mrs Hatice Anutkan , out of the Wellington Humana hospital after the surgery last November . |
| 2 | Eric , who sold his house for the venture , is the resident caretaker , and plans to turn the house into a base for fellow trainspotters are under way . |
| 3 | Samuel Byrd , of Virginia , who rebuked his wife for severity towards a servant , could make a young dependant of his , Eugene , drink , according to Byrd 's diary , ‘ a pint of piss ’ as a punishment for bed-wetting . |
| 4 | With no justification , Gervase Markham called angling ‘ the Sport and Recreation of God 's Saints ’ ; that was in 1614 , but already the act of delicate deception that remains central to the pastime had been used to illustrate both the wiles of Satan ( who baits his hooks with sin ) and the grim harvest of Death ( who swaps his scythe for float-tackle ) . |
| 5 | Reuben Haredale 's steward , who murders his master for money , and also the latter 's gardener in circumstances that shall make it seem that the body , when discovered , is that of Rudge himself . |
| 6 | He held talks with his Malaysian counterpart , Mahathir Mohamed , who announced his support for Vietnamese membership of the Association of South-East Asian Nations ( ASEAN ) . |
| 7 | On the Glomar Challenger , and back on shore , Hall met others who shared his enthusiasm for the ocean floor . |
| 8 | Muni 's interest , however , would have come to nothing if there were not men at the studios who shared his enthusiasm for this potentially explosive subject . |
| 9 | A friend of Henry James who shared his passion for Venice ( although the novelist had reservations about her creation of a fake palace in his home town ) , Mrs Gardner transferred her passion from clothes and jewels to art in the 1890s . |
| 10 | Devoted to his wife , Julie , and a family who shared his passion for the Catholic Players , Michael was a well-known figure in the Amateur Theatre in Bradford , appearing in shows and concerts with the Society in a period of over 30 years , rarely missing an event . |
| 11 | He was thinking big , and thinking big meant a huge readership — a paper like the Mirror , to be read in equally large numbers by ordinary people who shared his contempt for organized politics . |
| 12 | It was the Captain who voiced his opinion for him : ‘ It 's no wonder we ca n't find flats for our boys when they want to get married , with this sort of competition . |
| 13 | Williams , who made his debut for the county as a teenager in 1974 , scored almost 12,000 runs and took nearly 400 wickets in his first-class career . |
| 14 | He was a printer who used his skill for the production of a remarkable flow of opinion-forming pamphlets , and a founding father of the United States . |
| 15 | Meanwhile , Mr Paul Tsongas , the former Massachusetts senator who suspended his campaign for the Democratic nomination a month ago , hinted yesterday that he might re-enter the race if Mr Clinton did poorly in New York . |
| 16 | Cheers : Johan Egelstedt toasts his victory with Greville Janner , the local MP who championed his fight for equal status with female au pairs |
| 17 | to Picasso , who filled his canvases for years , |
| 18 | Unlike baby goslings which lock on to the first moving object in sight , the newborn baby will be relatively undiscriminating about who tends his needs for the first three or four months of life . |
| 19 | John Reid took the honours on Captain Horatius , who confirmed his liking for soft ground by stretching away by four lengths from Half A Tick . |
| 20 | Baker travelled to Egypt on July 19 for talks with Mubarak , who expressed his support for the US plan , as did the visiting Lebanese Foreign Minister Faris Buwayz . |
| 21 | His critics accused his work of lacking in realism , but this did not lessen his popularity with those readers who enjoyed his enthusiasm for romance and adventure . |
| 22 | Loughlin , who broke his arm for the second time in 16 months on Great Britain 's summer tour Down Under , is in the centres after 10 minutes as sub in last Friday 's League defeat at Wheldon Road . |
| 23 | A man who lost his agency for imported electronic equipment , for example , did not praise nationalization of the import business . |
| 24 | But Arthur Scargill , who repeated his contempt for ballots , was roundly applauded . |
| 25 | ‘ Only somebody who knew his weakness for them , ’ said Peggy . |
| 26 | It was a recording of a phone conversation allegedly between the Princess and an admirer , who professed his love for her . |
| 27 | Kinzu , a Rhodesian Ridgeback , was the sort of dog who took his owners for a walk . |
| 28 | Although Rowlands , who resigned his presidency for seven days in the bloody aftermath of this summer 's centenary tour to South Africa , was happy to lay the issue to rest last night , the debris of the affair is still apparent throughout Welsh rugby . |
| 29 | The elder Tip , who earned his name for tipping cues in the snooker(pool)-room at the back of an Italian ice-cream shop in St Andrews , taught young Tip everything he knew . |
| 30 | POLICE have spoken by telephone with the man who left his girlfriend for dead after a car crash in Cleveland . |