Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] his [noun] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The more conservative Viktor Chernomyrdin was voted in after Yeltsin was pressured into withdrawing his support for Gaidar . |
| 2 | Though he deceived the beholder into taking his artifice for reality , Zeuxis practised an idealist art . |
| 3 | A man who suffered severe brain damage during an operation twenty six years ago has been talking for the first time about losing his fight for compensation . |
| 4 | It was urged that , if this construction were adopted , a solicitor would have a shorter time during which he may abstain from bringing his action for work done than the rest of Her Majesty 's subjects . |
| 5 | Experts in international law agreed that , should Noriega succeed in establishing his claim for POW status , not only would the terms of his current imprisonment be radically altered but also the scope of any possible sentence . |
| 6 | He went on to discuss the immigration of Soviet Jews to Israel [ see p. 37199 ] , before reviewing his plan for elections among Palestinians in the occupied territories [ see pp. 36599 ; 36670 ; 36834 ; 36904 ; 36986-87 ; 37051-52 ] . |
| 7 | Shakespearean editors are showing considerable innovation in moving away from the view that Shakespeare had a fixed conception for his plays , where variants between texts are ‘ error of transmission ’ , corruptions which crept in because Shakespeare was not involved in preparing his plays for print . |
| 8 | In Perishable Goods , Jonah Mansel 's restraint in concealing his love for Adèle , wife of Boy Pleydell , is made more difficult when the villain Rose Noble uses stolen letters to force Mansel into submission . |
| 9 | He was known for combining his talent for organisation with a burning faith in Jesus present in the Eucharist . |
| 10 | Ellcock , 26 , took 117 wickets in 46 first-class matches at 29.01 during an injury-plagued 10-year career since making his debut for Worcestershire while still a pupil at Malvern College in 1982 . |
| 11 | Every general has his own method for preparing his troops for battle and I am no exception . |
| 12 | He began by explaining his mission for AEA and whether he saw that it had been accomplished . |