Example sentences of "for his own [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ray Butts made the first one for his own guitar player , then he took it to Nashville and showed it to Chet Atkins and Chet bought one . |
| 2 | Following further approaches from my hon. Friend , a direction was issued to South Glamorgan county council on 11 December requiring it not to approve the proposal until the Secretary of State had had more time to consider whether to call in the matter for his own determination . |
| 3 | But although his name will recur in pedigrees into the foreseeable future , it is more for his own deeds on the racecourse that Nijinsky will be remembered . |
| 4 | The young corporal , it should perhaps be pointed out , was also a Grant , but indeed with the recommendation of his own officers he was to a great degree responsible for his own advancement to commissioned rank , and this kind of promotion for gallantry was by no means an isolated example , for a considerable number of non-commissioned officers of suitable education , many of them Scots , reached the junior commissioned ranks . |
| 5 | He also sent him some of his famed fake letters in the name of ‘ Edna Welthorpe ’ — a character he invented for his own fun and that of the few chosen intimates who were allowed to receive them . |
| 6 | Where God has spoken and spoken clearly , rationality comes into its own ; where God has not spoken , or for his own reasons has not spoken clearly , there is the area of mystery . |
| 7 | In the context of this article , the need for a multi-national to engage in this sort of activity is likely to be limited to those occasions when the customer demands it for his own reasons , or where trading relationships have been established that would be threatened if one customer knew of the other 's existence . |
| 8 | For his own reasons . |
| 9 | ‘ Your uncle , for his own reasons , confided something to Francis and Francis is dead . |
| 10 | Locked in a marriage with a wife who showed increasing signs of mental instability and whose health constantly brought her to the point of death , exhausted in his work and fearing for his own life and sanity , Eliot 's view of relations between the sexes is at its bleakest , as is shown not least in the epigraphs , which were originally further universalized by including ( in the draft synopsis ) , |
| 11 | A DOCTOR who killed a remand prisoner by prescribing a deadly mixture of drugs was last night fighting for his own life after a suspected heart attack in court . |
| 12 | At times I felt I was just a kind of palimpsest , or a blackboard that could always be wiped clean to make room for his own work . |
| 13 | Marx 's major claim for his own work was that he had discovered certain inexorable laws which operated in history and which were comparable in their workings to laws operating in the physical universe such as the law of gravity . |
| 14 | These images had what Alexander desired for his own work and did not have : authority . |
| 15 | Why on earth should he want to , they 're only going to sell for his own work if he does n't . |
| 16 | He finally went to bed , cursing himself for his own sentimentality , certain the feeling was due to tiredness and jet-lag , no more . |
| 17 | Yet with hands clasped he whimpers and gibbers with such desperate ardour for his own preservation , on his knees . |
| 18 | Looking for his own birth certificate for his own marriage , he found his mother 's too — in a desk in the house in King Street . |
| 19 | Some months earlier , in the autumn of 1182 , young Henry had once again asked his father to give him a principality , Normandy , so that he could make proper provision for his own knights . |
| 20 | He will admit that he is not running just for his own enjoyment , but against himself to see what he can achieve . |
| 21 | But he stressed afterwards he is now running for his own enjoyment . |
| 22 | Nails would have to do it , for his own skin as well as his , Hoomey 's . |
| 23 | The first is hard to explain because , although Kelly may be right in asserting that the clash was one of a kind seen every week , it was still bad enough for his own organisation to have upheld a ban on the man in the dock . |
| 24 | For his own successor he suggested Rohde , " the ablest of all the younger philologists I have known " , and with a disarming naivety he added : " I can not express how profoundly my life here in Basle would be alleviated by the presence of my best friend . " |
| 25 | It asked the participants to stop haggling in public and permitted each bishop to take a decision either way for his own diocese ( Murphy 1959 ) . |
| 26 | Nothing easier than to turn the husband into a trustee for his own wife . |
| 27 | Special care he reserved for his own wife and not for the Mrs Strawsons of this world . |
| 28 | It is open to my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for the Environment to call in these applications for his own decision . |
| 29 | Regulations provide that if local planning authorities are minded to approve a proposal , but judge that it involves a material departure from the provisions of the development plan , they are required to refer the matter to the Secretary of State for him to decide whether he thinks it fit to call in the matter for his own decision . |
| 30 | Extempore Effusion upon the Death of James Hogg — a great dirge for his own generation of Romantic poets . |