Example sentences of "for his [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Feted as a genius at twenty-one , wined and dined for his striking originality , the world his oyster and a nice vivacious wife to boot … |
| 2 | ‘ John spoke to him about the inadvisability of running errands on racecourses for his warned-off father , and said that if Jason had any information , he should pass it on to him , John Millington . |
| 3 | From prison Cranmer wrote to the Queen asking for her mercy and pardon for his heinous folly in following the Will of Edward VI . |
| 4 | Wilko ( ex teacher ) is known for his deep thought and intellectual ways … and so is cuntona ( amonsgt other things ) . |
| 5 | If you can , you should try to work out in advance what the patient needs for his practical comfort ; how you are going to arrange his living quarters and his access to the bathroom and toilet ; and how he is going to occupy his time . |
| 6 | I remember Quintin Hogg , now Lord Hailsham , filling the Market Hall with almost a thousand people , for his key speech . |
| 7 | When Watt 's master patent for his separate condenser expired in 1800 , he retired from active work . |
| 8 | George who did n't need glasses ( as he kept telling people ) reached for his magnifying glass . |
| 9 | Much as he mistrusted almost every Irishman with whom he came in contact on the Continent ( Bishop Clement for his disrespect of patristic authority , the priest Sampson for his cavalier attitude to the baptismal rite , Virgil of Salzburg for sowing dissension between himself and the duke of Bavaria as well as for believing that the world was round ) , Boniface 's establishing of monasteries as the learned back-up to missionary work and his devotion to the papacy and to Rome both owed something to the Irish background in England . |
| 10 | The laurels for criticism went to Thomas McEvilley ‘ for his reasoned way of dealing with such issues as quality , multiculturalism , and modernism/postmodernism ’ . |
| 11 | Pieda , a powerful economic group , has attacked him for his crippling levy on whisky and says the excise tax policy on the famous tipple is ‘ against the national interest and discriminates against one of the UK 's top five exporters ’ . |
| 12 | Eddie George , soon to be the governor of the Bank of England , has asked to have his salary frozen for his five-year term to demonstrate his determination to fight inflation . |
| 13 | Now living in Wimbledon , in a spacious house complete with swimming pool , Crawford went into four months ' training for his gruelling role , starting each day at 6.30am with a four-mile run across the common , which he built up to twelve miles . |
| 14 | Adonis , cold and puritanical , rejects the lustful invitations of Venus , the supreme goddess , He goes off hunting , and as a punishment for his presumptuous chastity , is killed by a boar . |
| 15 | Widely known for his anti-Maastricht politics , Fillon says that he wants to avoid ‘ getting bogged down at the EC level … whose cumbersome procedures put a damper on the research community ’ . |
| 16 | Phil Edmonds encounters some resistance as he prepares for his first-class comeback |
| 17 | The primitive ceremony which came soonest to Eliot 's mind , whether in his ‘ Beating of a Drum ’ or in 1926 when he spoke of savages who ‘ believe that the ritual is performed in order to induce a fall of rain' , was rain-making , probably because he had read about it for his 1913 seminar paper . |
| 18 | Is it music for his imagined funeral , or does it remind the singer that although unhappy , he is in love ? |
| 19 | His wanderings in the nearby Derbyshire dales laid the foundations for his lifelong love of landscape . |
| 20 | The Association honoured him on his retirement with the award of a medal of honour and elected him as a Vice-President The following year he was made an OBE for his lifelong work for the deaf . |
| 21 | His house , into which he welcomes his visitors with open hospitality , is a charming , three-storeyed Victorian building attached to a smaller unit which acts as the atelier for his lifelong friend , the sculptor Morton Rosengarten , and his charming painter-wife , Violet . |
| 22 | London died 12 January 1714 , leaving estates in Thames Ditton , purchased from Talman , who built there a small house for his lifelong friend . |
| 23 | In her heart of hearts she had blamed Paul for his unrelenting pressure , but it was her own weakness , her failure to stand up to him , that was responsible for the situation . |
| 24 | reaching for his wonky telescope of cornets |
| 25 | The man once dubbed ‘ Fabulous Forman ’ for his extravagant taste in clothes is said to have walked out for ‘ personal reasons ’ . |
| 26 | Nu was expelled for his extravagant language , and so was Aung San who published an article about the Burmese university bursar entitled ‘ Hell-Hound at Large ’ . |
| 27 | Horsley 's CND activities went back to his days at Oxford , when the time he spent on demonstrations was one of the reasons for his third-class degree . |
| 28 | Twist our arms and we 'll plump for his brilliantly-executed diatribe against the somewhat larger rock acts currently doing the rounds : ‘ Gim me something small and poisonous , with teeth , born out of the gutter , ’ oozed The Ig , eyes bulging as if strapped to the electric chair . |
| 29 | Which might be a powerful argument for his essential innocence . |
| 30 | It was , in a sense , poor reward for the selectors ' enterprise in choosing Devon Malcolm for his extra pace , despite his unspectacular form this summer , and Ian Salisbury , the 22-year-old Northampton-born Sussex legspinner . |