Example sentences of "for his [adj] [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | From prison Cranmer wrote to the Queen asking for her mercy and pardon for his heinous folly in following the Will of Edward VI . |
| 2 | The man once dubbed ‘ Fabulous Forman ’ for his extravagant taste in clothes is said to have walked out for ‘ personal reasons ’ . |
| 3 | Kildare , which has been handed over to Paul by the Irish Government for his famous Hole in the Wall Gang charity . |
| 4 | Connery , who won an Oscar four years ago for his hard-hit-ting role in The Untouchables , is now shooting the thriller Rising Sun in Los Angeles . |
| 5 | The sculptor mason now thought to have built it , Valentine Strong , whose building family owned stone quarries at nearby Little Barrington , will long be remembered for his witty epitaph in Fairford churchyard : |
| 6 | Gilbert began helping Eyton in the preparation of specimens for his private museum in his nearby ancestral home at Eyton , and , when Gilbert decided to leave England as Gould 's assistant , Eyton offered to buy Gilbert 's personal , ‘ ready stuffed ’ collection , including 82 birds and an ‘ almost perfect skeleton of an armadillo ( with the exception of the toenails ) ’ . |
| 7 | Malinowski had a complex character , as illustrated by the posthumous A Diary in the Strict Sense of the Term ( 1967 ) , written for his private use in Polish in the Trobriands . |
| 8 | In its ‘ threatening twilight ’ over a ‘ dead land ’ , this work of fiction meshed with Eliot 's anthropological reading to provide the means of expression for his personal agony in ‘ The Hollow Men ’ , and in The Waste Land . |
| 9 | Afterwards there was praise for Geoff Cocksedge , the man who leases the workshop , for his prompt action in removing welding cylinders from the burning building . |
| 10 | Dylan upset his traditionalist fans by adding electronic backing for his new tour in the wake of the weird and wonderful sounds being emitted by two underground bands called Pink Floyd and Soft Machine . |
| 11 | A Bosnian evacuee has opened a restaurant to help pay for his new start in Britain . |
| 12 | We are grateful , too , for his pivotal role in reshaping BP Shipping , BP Chemicals and the BP/Sohio relationship in the USA . |
| 13 | All in the golf society wish to thank John for his tireless efforts in his support and promotion of the society . |
| 14 | Not only was it more convenient for his financial deals in international negotiations to be done there , but he needed more dancers . |
| 15 | John Ashworth was notable for his outstanding leadership in helping the University to overcome cuts in government funding . |
| 16 | Cited by WWF International President HRH The Duke of Edinburgh for his outstanding leadership in pioneering environmental conservation and education in Indochina and for his promotion of international co-operation and scientific exchange among all nations , Vo Quy is the architect of a groundbreaking agreement between Laos , Kampuchea and Vietnam , which calls for international co-operation in protecting rare and endangered migratory species and the establishment of transformer reserves , or peace parks , on their shared borders . |
| 17 | Henley rower , Steve Redgrave has been honoured for his outstanding achievement in the sport . |
| 18 | He was a member of the Institutions of Civil and Mechanical Engineers , becoming a Telford medallist of the former for his outstanding paper in 1897 on locomotive efficiency trials on the Caledonian Railway . |
| 19 | Indeed , as we shall see , Gregory VII rebuked his too active agent Hugh , now archbishop of Lyons , for his officious energy in harrying the king of England to carry out papal decrees , without regard to the king 's virtues which earned him a claim to forbearance . |
| 20 | The outgoing Lord Mayor , Ulster Unionist Herbert Ditty was today fighting for his political survival in the Court area where counting was still under way . |
| 21 | He was celebrated for his speeches in verse to the Senior Common Room and he was quietly famous for his annual pantomimes in verse ; these were unusual dramatic pieces . |
| 22 | As for British politicians , Clinton has no match for his youthful vigour in John Major , 49 or Opposition leader John Smith , 54 . |
| 23 | The player was only a shadow of himself in Scotland 's first World Cup qualifying tie , blaming a surfeit of matches at club , European and international level for his unsatisfactory display in Berne . |
| 24 | His provision of seventy hides of land for Benedict 's new foundation in Wearmouth in 674 and a further forty hides for his parallel foundation in Jarrow in 681 associated him with the two houses , which were to become pre-eminent in Northumbrian monastic culture and scholarship . |
| 25 | But Haig , ever the optimist , intent on winning the war with the BEF , now had the opportunity for his long-cherished campaign in Flanders . |
| 26 | He returned to St Beuno 's for his final vows in 1882 , then taught classics for two years at Stonyhurst . |
| 27 | MICHAEL Jackson lay low in his hotel room preparing for his final concert in Taiwan today , while newspapers , consumer groups and politicians fumed at the superstar 's offstage shopping style . |
| 28 | For his final years in office , Warwick was known to be out of favour with the king , something which must have reduced his authority within the duchy . |
| 29 | For his final years in office , Warwick was known to be out of favour with the king , something which must have reduced his authority within the duchy . |
| 30 | Silverman explores the way Lawrence 's homosexuality promotes an erotic identification which is itself crucial for his psychic participation in Arab nationalism ; of how , in effect , he discovered himself within the Other . |