Example sentences of "who [vb -s] his [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ) . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | He 's got a gentleman there who makes his meals for him and cleans the house . |
| 5 | To the story of Ulysses , Levinas opposes that of Abraham who leaves his fatherland for ever , never to return . |