Example sentences of "[to-vb] for his [noun sg] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Williams , who beat Trevor Currie on Tuesday night to add the European championship to his Commonwealth title , may have to wait for his shot at the British champion , though Mason rises to his former sparring partner 's rhetoric . |
| 2 | Williams , who beat Trevor Currie on Tuesday night to add the European championship to his Commonwealth title , may have to wait for his shot at the British champion , though Mason rises to his former sparring partner 's rhetoric . |
| 3 | ENGLAND new boy Les Ferdinand has Ray Wilkins 's nagging to thank for his call-up for the Turkey match later this month . |
| 4 | He prepared to work for his father in the building trade , or even go back to college . |
| 5 | He had just been de-mobbed from the Army , intended to go up to Oxford to work for his Doctorate in the autumn , and was looking for a house for his mother who had recently been divorced . |
| 6 | In December another presidential adviser , Carlos Spadona , had been forced to resign for his involvement in the case . |
| 7 | His voice was surly , but suddenly he twisted round to face me and took off the headphones , and I thought he was going to apologise for his rudeness of the previous night , but instead he demanded to know if it was true that we were out in the open ocean and were not planning to make a landfall for some days . |
| 8 | Athelstan tried to apologise for his part in the quarrel at their last parting but the coroner just waved his words aside . |
| 9 | He had to account for his presence on the cruiser , after all . |
| 10 | The mixture of feudal service ( the vassals ' obligation ) with mercenary forces ( the count was reckoning to pay for his share of the duty ) is characteristic of the eleventh century . |
| 11 | Stuart , from Shoeburyness , Essex , now needs a further £90,000 to pay for his operation in the US . |
| 12 | These things , of course , are the very same evidence that the Inspector of Accidents has the legal right to impound for his investigation of the cause of the accident . |
| 13 | Will he pass on the thanks of those of us who went to see the Prime Minister two weeks ago to ask for his help in the matter ? |