Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] for his [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Police inquiries have so far failed to track down the culprits and now the victim has appealed for his heroic rescuer to come forward and help the investigation . |
| 2 | Will he tell the House what support he has had for his additional measure , the Aggravated Vehicle-Taking Bill , which will surely go a long way towards stopping the theft of motor vehicles ? |
| 3 | AI believes that he is being made to answer for his active involvement in the Sudan Doctors ' Union and left-wing politics , his role in the non-violent protests which led to the overthrow of President Nimeiri in April 1985 and his outspoken criticism of the current government . |
| 4 | Prior Robert might not have been very greatly grieved if Tutilo had been made to pay for his outrageous offence with his skin , but Prior Robert had been at dinner with the abbot and several other witnesses that night , and in any case could hardly be imagined as lurking in wet woods to strike down the delinquent with his own elegant hands . |
| 5 | He played the part of Marcellus , a noble Roman who is converted to Christianity and chooses to die for his new religion . |
| 6 | A Bosnian evacuee has opened a restaurant to help pay for his new start in Britain . |
| 7 | My perfect house , the one I am condemned to search for just as the womaniser in 10 is condemned to search for his impossible mate , could only have existed in some fiction I had read — or in a past life . |
| 8 | I also found myself facing an astonished mandroid guard , who began to reach for his holstered stun-gun . |
| 9 | Henry chose England , but because the imperial promise to preserve his territories was broken , he returned to fight for his hereditary claim in 1189 . |
| 10 | The callous crook got five years after milking two families of everything they owned to pay for his luxury life in a country mansion . |
| 11 | Some say — Vic has overheard them saying it — that he tries to compensate for his short stature by his aggressive manner . |
| 12 | He referred to the help he had received for his humble efforts during the year of his mayoralty ( 1811 ) . |
| 13 | At first , he expressed surprise at the colours Saska had picked for his new look — a sludgy , greyish-green suit by top Italian designer , Giorgio Armani , teamed with a dusty tobacco silk turtleneck and cardigan from Nicole Farhi , to encourage Yuri to break away from his preferred monochromes . |
| 14 | Therefore , he must stick to the same story and tell the same lie as when he had applied for his British passport . |
| 15 | Each applicant had applied for his respective daughter to be admitted to the school in September 1991 , thus expressing their preference in accordance with the appropriate arrangements under the Education Act 1980 . |
| 16 | I was shown the furniture that Tom had made for his marital home — all of the drawers with dovetails , sliding in and out without effort . |
| 17 | In this case , a computer programmer developed a computer program which was similar to one he had written for his previous employer . |
| 18 | I thought he might have run away , and was ringing to apologise for his previous calls . |
| 19 | He will continue to study for his external law degree at the University of London , but does not intend to train as a barrister — an idea that he toyed with for a while . |
| 20 | When the delegates from Western literature meet on the first day to pray for their existence , there is an attempted disruption of the ceremony by Muslim fundamentalists who claim to object to the Christian format of the proceedings , but , as we later discover , their real target is the elusive Gibreel Farishta whom they are trying to punish for his heretical views . |
| 21 | From here , I thought , Falconer had left for his dreadful fall through the night . |
| 22 | The England midfield player , who had surgery on the injury last month , was hoping to return for his Italian club Juventus against Parma on Sunday . |
| 23 | William was aged 22 at this time , with his wife a year younger ; they began their married life in that same rather elegant location that Benjamin the Silversmith had chosen for his early forays into the boarding-house business : Wilmington Square , Clerkenwell . |