Example sentences of "his [det] [noun sg] [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | As Dick comes to know Count Jasper he no longer sees him as a villain and realises that this inscrutable man is in his own way working for the same ends as the conspirators . |
| 2 | There is some evidence that it was Snowden who suggested the formula of the ‘ doctor 's mandate ’ , at a Cabinet meeting on 5 October , under which the component parts of the National Government were each to issue their own manifestos , with a separate personal appeal from the Prime Minister , According to Neville Chamberlain , ‘ Snowden … produced the suggestion that the Prime Minister should issue his own manifesto asking for a free hand [ i.e. on tariffs ] and the two Party leaders should each issue their own programmes and to our astonishment this was at once accepted by the Liberals , ' Amery , who perhaps got the information from Chamberlain , wrote in his diary on 6 October , ‘ Apparently when the deadlock seemed most complete Snowden suggested that the PM should issue his own manifesto , each of the other party leaders issuing theirs . ' |
| 3 | Like Tuathal , Eochaid had been in the saddle all autumn , mostly at the King 's side , until he had had to return to his own Scone to prepare for this Christmas . |
| 4 | On 21 February 1992 , he proposed his own bill to provide for a referendum on the Maastricht Treaty . |
| 5 | But before Willie was involved in these epic encounters , the no-nonsense Glaswegian had his own battle to fight for Trevino 's bag . |
| 6 | On his own decision to go for the draw with a last-minute John Liley penalty , Richards said pointedly : ‘ Trying to win the game by opting for the scrum would have been a waste of time because the moment we drove for the line , they would have wheeled it or collapsed it . |