Example sentences of "for his [noun] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The designer must therefore achieve a " spatial feel " for his scheme at the earliest possible time . |
| 2 | He had been tried for his life at the Guildhall and tomorrow would hang . |
| 3 | The Prince of Wales will stand in for his grandmother at a church service and reception for the Victoria Cross and George Cross Association in London . |
| 4 | He had an outlet for his temper at the beginning of a new day . |
| 5 | Speaker J , in his preceding contribution , has talked about the money received for his work at a particular point in the past . |
| 6 | Even so , an anti-Subirachs cabal has sprung up , calling for his work at the Sagrada Familia to be stopped for artistic and ideological reasons . |
| 7 | As The Two Pheasants stood next door to his house , he was handy not only for his work at the church on the green , but also for his only pleasure . |
| 8 | Professor Geoffrey Rose — now retired — is highly respected for his work at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine . |
| 9 | In the autumn of 1916 Albert had fought for his country at the Somme , sharing trenches with dead companions for days at a time . |
| 10 | He enlisted in the Life Guards in 1807 , and won renown for his exploits at the battle of Waterloo where he reputedly killed ten French soldiers before succumbing to his own many wounds . |
| 11 | Bibb atoned for his error at the start of the second half , when after Castleford lost the ball in front of their own posts he pounced quickly and beat three tacklers for the third Rovers ' try , Knapper adding his first goal . |
| 12 | In minutes he was dressed and looking for his signallers at the Dutch HQ , for as second in command of the Company he must warn headquarters and the platoons in their hill positions above the town , as well as contacting Sparrow Force , whom he did not know were under attack the same night . |
| 13 | Only two weeks ago , Hendry sent a plea to Roxburgh asking for his chance at the highest level . |
| 14 | Pithy and allusive interjections worked well in a shaikh 's guestroom , but less well when a speaker had to queue for his turn at a microphone to make himself heard . |
| 15 | True , the first and perhaps the second blackmail payments had come in before he was obliged to pay for his teeth at the beginning of June , but he had blithely paid two hundred and fifty for them in cash when the demand came . |
| 16 | I like the way he does n't reach for his knife at the drop of a hat , and the way he does n't give a damn about his statistics . |
| 17 | First half losses before tax increased from £17.7m to £30.6m at Ratners ; Gerald Ratner received much criticism and there were calls for his resignation at the company 's agm . |
| 18 | Last summer we initiated the loan exhibition at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge of the finest private German collection of Romantic and Nazarene Drawings which we advised and helped build up over the years , having bought for the collection on commission here at the London auctions major drawings like Koch 's ‘ The Schmadribachfall ’ , and Overbeck 's important preparatory study for his fresco at the Villa Massimo in Rome . |
| 19 | He had been trying to put inorganic chemistry into an intelligible form for his students at the University of St Petersburg , when ( in common with various contemporaries in various countries ) he realized that if the elements are set out in order of increasing atomic weight , they display periodicity : similar elements recur at regular intervals . |
| 20 | George , who also won a VC for his part in a daring naval exploit at Zeebrugge , died on his 31st birthday , and James , who won a Military Cross for his actions at the Somme , died of his wounds at 28 . |
| 21 | He was signing an autograph for his killer at the time . |
| 22 | At intervals throughout the next months he worked on this material , in preparation for his show at the Lefevre Gallery in September 1951 and for other exhibitions . |
| 23 | In this sense May 1968 was the price de Gaulle paid for his attempt at a shotgun wedding between French industry and the twentieth century . |
| 24 | Lauda and Ferrari were supreme in 1975 and Lauda 's five wins , including three in succession , were enough to take him on to his first world title , a title he would surely have retained had it not been for his accident at the Nurburgring . |
| 25 | Baxter 's work and his royal connections made him famous during the years directly following the Great Exhibition and he gained public recognition for his achievements : he was awarded the great gold medal of Austria ( 1852 ) , and medals for his exhibits at the Great Exhibitions in New York ( 1853 ) and Paris ( 1855 ) , was elected a member of the Royal Society of Arts ( 1855 ) , and received the grand gold medal of Sweden ( 1857 ) . |
| 26 | If it were n't for his days at the mucky end of the trade , he would never have earned enough to buy a house and he would n't have met Raksha who had been doing a bit of topless work to supplement her salary as a nurse . |
| 27 | Confidentially , there is a bid by the Government for his co-operation at the moment . |
| 28 | With this scene of confusion before his eyes it seems unlikely that he would have contemplated using any wheeled transport , even supposing that it had been available for his use at the time . |
| 29 | Before the veteran entertainer went home for the emotional Christmas Day reunion with his family , Leslie and Jean had together given thanks for his recovery at a short Communion service in the hospital chapel . |
| 30 | Not even a special building was required , for since the Master was , as required by the will , a priest in Holy Orders singing masses for his patron at an altar in the Parish Church , it is entirely conceivable that the School 's first home was somewhere in that Church . |