Example sentences of "his [noun] [verb] [pron] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His team won it for sure in the second half , with tries from full-back , Martin Roberts and flanker , Pete Glanville . |
| 2 | He began ‘ running down ’ to Suffolk at weekends on his own , and that Christmas he had his wife accompany him for four days , taking all the Christmas food with them . |
| 3 | He says they stopped selling replica handguns because he suspected that some of his customers wanted them for possible criminal reasons . |
| 4 | In the forty third minute , Foyle volleyed wide from fifteen yards when really he should have been on target after receiving from Magilton , and as referee Taylor was looking at his whistle to blow it for half time , United skipper , Steve Foster drove forward from the edge of the penalty area , shrugged off a couple of challenges , hit a good low shot , seemingly under the body of Gosney , but Gosney 's body just halted the flow of the ball . |
| 5 | A FATHER who has every justification for being very proud of his daughter nominates her for this week 's bouquet . |
| 6 | With our daughter Sara here too , we were ten of us in the house , with Barney and his family and his in-laws joining us for several parties . |
| 7 | The deference of his courtiers did nothing for this — that was a piece from a different jigsaw puzzle he had already solved . |
| 8 | His land adjoins theirs for one thing , and more importantly , it 's the only way he can expand in this area to include substantial buildings . ’ |
| 9 | This " touched Booth more deeply than any lavish endowment " but lie was loathe for his officer to deny himself for such a long stretch of time . |
| 10 | Not that his son condemns him for this , blaming instead the way Olivier Snr was brought up by a cold domineering father , a priest who put church before family , and his own dedication to fulfilling his professional promise . |