Example sentences of "and his [noun] for the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The top-order batsmen has cracked four centuries this season and his selection for the tour was expected . |
| 2 | A letter from the Prime Minister outlining his record and his vision for the future was sent last week to the Labour leader of Darlington Council , Coun John Williams . |
| 3 | However , where more than one person ( eg a merchant bank and a stockbroker ) agrees to act as the agent of a party to the takeover and his associates for the purpose of making disclosure , particular care must be taken to ensure that the responsibility for disclosure is agreed between the parties and that it is neither overlooked nor duplicated . |
| 4 | Gerard Depardieu : An Extended Profile ( tonight , Channel 4 , 8pm ) offers an exclusive insight into the man and the myth , as he talks at his home in the wine-growing heartland of France about his wayward youth and his ambitions for the future . |
| 5 | He had notched up 65 shots on this round so far and his total for the tournament was already 272 . |
| 6 | And his notes for the course on lyric ( prepared in the spring of 1869 ) show him devoting ten times more space to the dithyramb , of which next to nothing had survived from antiquity , than to the epinician , the kind immortalized by Pindar and the only kind that had survived in any bulk . " |
| 7 | Added to these were two much subtler plays — the poisoned statue and his plans for the Wiring Project . |
| 8 | Coleridge 's first meeting with Tom Poole lasted less than a day , but in that short time Coleridge was expansive both on the subject of himself and his plans for the future . |
| 9 | He was his own man and he made this clear immediately with his policies and his plans for the future of motor sport worldwide . |
| 10 | She tried to smile more , to talk to him about his fishing and his plans for the future . |
| 11 | Irish hockey coach Cees Koppelaar reflects on his team 's failure to qualify for the World Cup and his plans for the future I know there was some criticism when I had to leave before the final inter-provincial game in Dublin last season — that was because of my club commitments in Holland . |
| 12 | He walked me slowly out to the garden gate — a kindly old man , more interested in his trees and his plans for the palace , his rowing and his cycling than in the ruder demands of his people for democracy and good government . |
| 13 | His closeness to the king and his enthusiasm for the war would have ensured him a place as a leader of the younger generation of nobles , and his death was yet another misfortune for the king . |
| 14 | He does remember Hollar from ten years ago and that he did get a good degree ( p. 52 ) , and his enthusiasm for the fact is indicated by the emphatic nature of his approbation — " Of course you did . |
| 15 | At the last meeting of the committee I did in fact congratulate the director and his staff for the way in which community care had been implemented current year and I 'd certainly like to congratulate him on the way he 's presented er proposals for next year . |
| 16 | It seems extraordinary that , given the political fervour of the Paris-based SI fraction in its post-Lettrist phase , the exhibition should have been so solemnly organised with little regard to Debord 's caveat on auteurism and his contempt for the art market . |
| 17 | Hegel 's use of this Romantic tradition to develop his idealism with respect to the rationality of the actual and his striving for the transcendence of duality do , however , find their parallel in Simmel 's highly positive attitude to art , affirming its ability to express and overcome fragmentation . |
| 18 | I knew all these ; had already played with them in my mind , from the most inconsequential ( Mickey Spillane 's ‘ another three days ' work never hurt anyone' ) to the most tragic : the story of Joseph de Jussieu and his search for the fever tree . |
| 19 | In particular ( and his present position seems to indicate Gale 's earlier predilections and his fitness for the task ) , he examines Charles 's worldwide correspondence , his ability to charm others into working for him , his capacity for synthesising from others ' data and conclusions . |
| 20 | Moto cross has left its legacy on his riding — Capirossi slides his RS more than most of his rivals — and his passion for the dirt remains deep . |
| 21 | His loyalty to the king and his hatred for the cult was indisputable . |
| 22 | By the time Coleridge returned to Jesus College three months later , having travelled to Oxford and Bristol , and tramped half over Wales and Somerset , the landscape of his life , and his hopes for the future , had been dramatically transformed . |
| 23 | Money surviving these payouts would be available to Höchstetter and his partners for the running costs of the works . |
| 24 | Richard Randall , defending , said : ‘ It was just one moment that will effect this man and his family for the rest of his life . ’ |
| 25 | Although Mesmer 's crises have little in common with modern hypnosis and his explanation for the phenomenon was soon discredited , he did obtain cures that physicians had been unable to achieve ; so scientists and therapists remained mesmerised by the phenomenon . |
| 26 | She remembers going with me to fetch Greg and his trunk for the Easter vacation , and of meeting Big Bob the porter who remembered her Daddy too . |
| 27 | Mrs Mentle , the widow of her late husband , gave a short introductory speech in praise of him and his achievements for the club . |