Example sentences of "his [adj] [noun pl] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | His total takings for the day amounted to one penny for a shave . |
| 2 | His total pickings for the campaign must have been every soldier 's dream . |
| 3 | I was touched to see that Dei had changed from his working overalls for the operation , although he would have to change straight back again after completing it . |
| 4 | ALVIN SALLAY reports on his innovative plans for the future of the game in the British colony . |
| 5 | He was stripped to the waist and as he jogged along between the shafts a few coins — obviously his meagre earnings for the day — jingled pathetically in a leather pouch fastened to the back of his belt . |
| 6 | And it could be that he will be battling his old team-mates for the big prize come the New Year . |
| 7 | Captain Kirk ( William Shatner ) hates the idea — he ca n't forgive his old enemies for the death of his son . |
| 8 | We talk to him about the inner turmoil he had been feeling during his long drought and about his high hopes for the future . |
| 9 | He was a regular contributor to many of the leading newspapers and periodicals ; his weekly articles for the Manchester Guardian were republished in two series of Collections and Recollections ( 1898 ) . |
| 10 | He seemed to have resolved his sexual hang-ups for the time being and was content with his lonely existence . |
| 11 | Often , however , an attack of non-specific urethritis can be followed by months , if not years , of needless worry and anxiety , simply because , following the mind 's focusing on the genitalia , the patient has noticed certain characteristics of his sexual organs for the first time , and normality has become abnormality . |
| 12 | But it should not be thought that at this time the Minister relied solely on the advice of his civil servants for the formation of policy . |
| 13 | Exhorting him to forgive his personal wrongs for the sake of his own greater glory , she sings an ariette about the dangers of being inflexible . |
| 14 | His part in the 1960 British film A French Mistress was also largely unnoticed , but it was significant as his first step into the world of ‘ grown-up ’ films after his starring roles for the Children 's Film Foundation . |
| 15 | Hearing from that individual , to his great concern , of the impending calamity , Captain Cuttle , in his delicacy , sheered off again confounded ; merely handing in the nosegay as a small mark of his solicitude , and leaving his respectful compliments for the family in general , which he accompanied with an expression of his hope that they would lay their heads well to the wind under existing circumstances , and a friendly intimation that he would " look up again " tomorrow(2) . |
| 16 | She would , instead , walk away from him with her head high — and his unsavoury hopes for the future dashed to the ground . |
| 17 | The 56-year-old engineer-already renowned for railway bridges in Portugal and Hungary , the colossal Gabarit viaduct in the Auvergne region and his gigantic locks for the first disastrous attempt to build a Panama Canal — declared his creation open on March 31 , 1889 to an accompaniment of fireworks and a 25-gun salute . |
| 18 | Although Burn showed both originality and ingenuity in his initial designs for the Edinburgh Academy , giving a two-storey building a single-storey façade and an unfluted portico to save on façading costs , others made the Greek revival their own : Thomas Hamilton who developed the basic arrangement of the final design of Burn 's Academy into the Royal High School , and William Henry Playfair , Burn 's contemporary at Smirke 's , whose work showed awareness of the latest developments in Germany . |
| 19 | The match has added significance in that Stephen Martin plays against his Irish team-mates for the first time in his illustrious career . |
| 20 | He had come close to the mark in his various schemes for the inner cities , but he had always taken great care not to overstep the boundary . |
| 21 | The Emperor himself shared this view , but took pains to conceal it , because his ultimate designs for the rehabilitation of France in Europe envisaged a tripartite understanding with Britain and Russia . |
| 22 | Neville Cardus gained a devoted following for his lyrical cricket writing as well as his musical reviews for the Manchester Guardian between the wars . |
| 23 | Check his scorched-earth vocals for the sound of self-doubt . |
| 24 | Although I welcome the way in which my right hon. Friend has responded to pressure from those of us who are concerned about the future of the volunteers in the Territorial army and elsewhere , and I especially welcome his statement about the future of the Army Cadet Force and the support it receives from the reserves , what are his particular plans for the three reserve battalions of the Royal Anglians ? |
| 25 | His finger on the pulse of the ‘ holidays with pay ’ movement , he reaped rich dividends with his new strategies for the packaging of popular pleasure . |
| 26 | But what we are now faced with more clearly than in his other claims for the consequences of literacy is an argument based on socially relative judgement and ideology . |
| 27 | ( a ) The Agency Principle Section 5 of the Partnership Act ( power of partner to bind the firm ) states that : Every partner is an agent of the firm and his other partners for the purpose of the business of the partnership ; and the acts of every partner who does any act for carrying on in the usual way of business of the kind carried on by the firm of which he is a member bind the firm and his partners , unless the partner so acting has in fact no authority to act for the firm in the particular matter , and the person with whom he is dealing either knows that he has no authority , or does not know or believe him to be a partner . |
| 28 | As the last of the concrete missile silos of Alma-Ata slipped away beneath him , Vologsky made his final preparations for the mission proper . |
| 29 | Paul showed a sense peace in his outlined plans for the future . |
| 30 | Mr Dinkins has seen off both his main challengers for the Democratic nomination in recent weeks . |