Example sentences of "for his [adj -est] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This continued into adult life and he had a habit of creating nicknames for his closest friends : Anjelica became Tootie , Beatty became the Pro , John McEnroe was Johnniemac , etc . |
| 2 | Second , his indifference to business proficiency as a qualification for his closest companions . |
| 3 | In a 62 per cent turnout , Soares won 70.43 per cent of the vote , against 14.07 per cent for his closest rival , Basilío Horta of the conservative Democratic Social Centre ( CDS ) . |
| 4 | His instructions to Blamey were to do even better for his eldest daughter . |
| 5 | It was commissioned in 1865 by Lord Walsingham as a wedding present for his eldest daughter and took the finest craftsmen five years to complete . |
| 6 | May 1910 , and it was necessary for his eldest son to become King George V , in his succession . |
| 7 | I had drifted into caddying , much to the disgust of my father who had other ideas about careers for his eldest son and heir whom he had sent to the best public school he could afford ( a slightly philistine , second-division one near Brighton ) and supported through university ( Sussex-by-the-Sea ) . |
| 8 | The plan which Henry still had in mind was for his eldest son to take all of those lands which he himself had inherited from his father and mother , i.e. Anjou , Maine , Normandy and England , while Richard should have the land which he had acquired by virtue of his marriage to Eleanor . |
| 9 | In addition he was able to acquire an heiress and her estates for his eldest son , Walter . |
| 10 | For Byrd 's finest expression of religious emotion to English words we must turn to his Psalmes , Sonets and songs of Sadnes and pietie ( 1588 ) , his Songs of sundrie natures ( 1589 ) , and his Psalmes , Songs and Sonnets ( 1611 ) , which include equivalents of the geistlicher Gesang and madrigale spirituale though often conceived with instrumental parts ; for his greatest church music to his two hundred or so motets . |
| 11 | By the end of the second day the visitors had reached 239 for 7 , only Gomes and Lloyd making an impression as Allott , recalled after a two-year absence , headed for his best Test return or 6 for 61 . |
| 12 | Anton though , as if waiting for this opening , Parker 's panic , caught him for his best bite yet , a chunk : with all of his teeth , his werewolf mouth , from high inside of a beefy thigh . |
| 13 | NEWCASTLE 'S Gavin Peacock is on course for his best goalscoring season after his 11th goal in 20 games killed off WATFORD in a 2–0 victory . |
| 14 | GAVIN PEACOCK is on course for his best goalscoring season after his 11th goal in 20 games killed off Watford . |
| 15 | I am grateful to my hon. Friend for his best wishes . |
| 16 | I denounced the judges who only gave him two ( out of ten ) for his best wave , but he said , ‘ It was fair . |
| 17 | It was about a wife who 'd cheated on her husband , she 'd left him for his best friend , and now the man was on the road trying to mend his broken heart . |
| 18 | Antonio , to a Christian audience , is portrayed as an unselfish and generous man who risks his own life for his best friend . |
| 19 | McLeod 's family placed a similarly strong emphasis on the value of education but failed , not because of the methods the parents chose to ram it home — on his own admission , they were not ‘ overstrict ’ — but because they set unachievable objectives for him ; nothing short of these objectives would satisfy and so there was no reward for his best efforts . |
| 20 | He finished last of the Europeans , two behind David Feherty , who had a 70 for his best round of the tournament . |
| 21 | But Henry II took into his own hands the county of Cornwall and all the Earl 's estates in England , Wales and Normandy and kept them to provide for his youngest son John , allowing only a small portion to go to Reginald 's daughters . |
| 22 | No one in Bristol — certainly not Big Mal , now 65 — was letting on exactly who hired him for his latest battle against relegation . |
| 23 | In and poised for his latest triumph — a political satire so close to the heart of American electioneering that pundits believe it could affect the outcome of the presidential election . |
| 24 | The story opens with Gael facing a libel suit for his latest novel in which he has unwittingly described the literary hack Howard Cutting . |
| 25 | CASTAWAY explorer Gerald Kingland yesterday found an ‘ absolutely gorgeous ’ Girl Friday for his latest adventure . |
| 26 | Shaunagh went with Keith on his culinary exploration for his latest BBC series , Floyd on Spain , which starts next Tuesday . |
| 27 | It was the third time Hillman has been sent off in his career and having been suspended for 20 weeks for his last offence , can expect a lengthy suspension for his latest misdemeanour . |
| 28 | Dalglish switched the focus to Europe for his latest captures , Swedish defender Patrik Andersson and Norwegian Henning Berg , but insisted it was n't because Walker 's vast wealth means Rovers are being held to ransom in this country . |
| 29 | I 'm still underwhelmed at Joe 's choice of name for his latest son , Slobodan |
| 30 | An arctic explorer has been preparing for his latest expedition by spending the weekend in a freezer . |