Example sentences of "his [adj] [noun sg] for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | But what , for instance , does Morrissey know about life , sat in his living room in Halebarns denouncing carnivores everywhere when some poor bugger in Hulme would give his right arm for a pork chop ? |
| 2 | If we 'd been around in Nelson 's day he 'd have given his right arm for a copy . |
| 3 | Of all varieties of the Christian faith , it seemed best able to accommodate his persistent search for a means to link the truths of philosophy and religion , and his almost pantheistic sense of the ‘ Absolute Unity ’ shared by God and his creation . |
| 4 | If a farmer dies having occupied his agricultural property for a period of at least two years , no inheritance tax is payable . |
| 5 | The first is that in making a prohibited steps order prohibiting the parents from having any contact with each other the justices erred in law as contact between adults is not a step which could be taken by a parent in meeting a parent 's responsibility for a child and thus falls outside the terms of section 8(1) of the Children Act 1989 , by which a prohibited steps order means an order that no step which could be taken by a parent in meeting his parental responsibility for a child and which is of a kind specified in the order shall be taken by any person without the consent of the court . |
| 6 | A prohibited steps orderwhich provides that no step which could be taken by a parent in meeting his parental responsibility for a child , and which is of the kind specified in the order , shall be taken by any person without the consent of the court . |
| 7 | In 1858 , the Society received the collection of the bankrupt New York Gallery of Fine Arts , founded in 1844 by wealthy grocer Luman Reed , who let the public visit his private house for a fee . |
| 8 | Charles Henstock sat beside his old friend for a short time , his lips moving in prayer . |
| 9 | Brian Harley is no superstar and Froggy , although an excellent caddie , could well have disappeared with the money to his favourite distillery for a month . |
| 10 | His quickest time for a 30-question puzzle was three-and-a-half minutes , which he did in the national championships though doing less well on the second puzzle meant he missed coming top . |
| 11 | Our hero then has to cope not only with a lively two year old but also with his burgeoning infatuation for a woman quite a few rungs above him on the social ladder . |
| 12 | Maskelyne took out patents on over forty commercial inventions , which included a cash register , patented in 1869 , which won a major award at the Paris exhibition , his 1889 typewriter , and his 1892 patent for a coin-operated lock for public lavatories , which was used in England until the 1950s . |
| 13 | If one stroke settled Wadkins , it was his second putt for a four at the first hole . |
| 14 | Although the President promised to use his second term for a new " crusade " to secure peace and prosperity within the USA , he offered few new prescriptions for the ailing economy , preferring instead to concentrate on a broad agenda which included less government and lower taxes . |
| 15 | In the mid eighties , Jacques Delors swept away years of Labour Europhobia with his seductive prospectus for a workers ' Europe that would outflank national governments — especially the one in Whitehall . |
| 16 | He took her hand in his warm clasp for a moment and then he said , ‘ You must pour from it at once and lay the ghost . |
| 17 | A sudden rush of emotions — jealousy and envy , mingled with satisfaction at observing them unbeknown — made him forget his uncomfortable situation for a moment . |
| 18 | Nothing happened with the turbine , but the V8 got as far as running in prototype form in the James Bond Esprit , which Rudd used as his personal car for a time . |
| 19 | This was proof , according to the Commission , that : ‘ Mr Nkrumah has not really departed one jot from his avowed aim for a Union of West African Soviet Socialist Republics . |
| 20 | In his youth he seemed to he involved with many sports and I have seen evidence of his playing goalkeeper for a select Scottish hockey team — on roller-skates . |
| 21 | Corbett did not mind ; he broke off his constant walking for a meal of fish broiled in milk and herbs , then returned to his task . |
| 22 | This is in fact a version of the familiar conservative ‘ critique of mass culture ’ , strongly marked by the influence of F.R. Leavis , G.K. Chesterton and McLuhan 's own Catholicism , and by his constant search for a reborn ‘ organic wholeness ’ of spirit . |
| 23 | 3 Jumping in quickly behind the attacker , the defender uses his left arm for a backfist strike to the rib cage . |
| 24 | Dawson rolled his left hand for a boogie-woogie riff and paddled an arpeggio with the right . |
| 25 | Ernie paused then added , ‘ They tol ’ me he was signing his letters with his left hand for a month afterwards . ’ |
| 26 | Ratagan gripped his good shoulder for a second , and then tipped back his tankard with a deft movement . |
| 27 | ‘ Sir Thomas insisted on reading the prince 's letters as a condition of his acting as go-between , and saw naught in them save the boyish fondness of a lad in his thirteenth year for a lass of similar age . |
| 28 | He brought her close against him , his arms enfolding her slenderness against the hardness of his powerful body for a long quiet moment before he slid his hand beneath her chin and lifted her face to his . |
| 29 | And it granted Mr Gorbachev most of the new powers he had requested ( though it rejected his clumsy proposal for a system of local inspectors to help enforce presidential decrees ) . |
| 30 | MIDDLESBROUGH manager Lennie Lawrence will rely on his current squad for a final Second Division promotion push . |