Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] for his " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their arrival had been delayed for a fortnight after Gen. Farah Aydid claimed on July 7 that an aircraft with UN markings bringing food aid had also carried from Nairobi military equipment and counterfeit money for his rival , Somalia 's transitional President , Ali Mahdi Mohammed . |
| 2 | On the contrary , Aubrey 's instant approval of his choice of a wife had added to his own conviction that he had finally made the right decision for his future happiness . |
| 3 | The Commandment anticipates The Form but is less comprehensive in its analysis , whereas in Ego Dormio although he does not borrow Victorine terminology for his analysis , he nevertheless outlines a growth in religious experience similar to that in The Form but starting at an earlier stage in religious life . |
| 4 | Earlier today Mr Probyn made an emotional plea for his wife to get in touch : |
| 5 | Gorbachev went on to give an emphatic answer in his keynote address to calls heard from both ends of the political spectrum for his resignation not just from the party leadership , but also from the presidency . |
| 6 | In addition to being a family house it is Timothy 's working base for his painting and sculpture . |
| 7 | Has my right hon. Friend seen the opinion poll in The Guardian this morning which shows very strong support for his stand on Europe , with the vast majority of people having confidence in the benefits for business purposes of a single market , but showing understandable scepticism about the implications of a single currency ? |
| 8 | Rescuing beleaguered maidens had a certain passing reward , but most of the time he 'd finished up by setting them up in some city somewhere with a handsome dowry , because after a while even the most agreeable ex-maiden became possessive and had scant sympathy for his efforts to rescue her sister sufferers . |
| 9 | Nothing forbids me to dramatize the crisis by saying that the individual has found a new sense of his dignity in the knowledge that he is wholly free to choose , with the sole responsibility for his choice . |
| 10 | But on his way to one of the farmers that Jack had forlornly recommended , John hit upon the real answer : a large timber plantation of about twenty acres — ash , sycamore , larch , balsam poplar , noble fir , silver pine — all in just the right condition for his purpose . |
| 11 | Then he smiled across at me , a doleful witness for his own prosecution , and shambled from the room . |
| 12 | She remembered the evening because his parents had given him an awful sweater for his birthday and between comedy programmes on the television she and Alan thought up alternative uses for an awful sweater . |
| 13 | Jones was handed the biggest fine in FA history on Tuesday and given a suspended six-month ban for his part in the video ‘ Soccer 's Hard Men ’ . |
| 14 | Dick Faucenbois is a character who lives in the memory , an individual in his eager response to adventure , exciting sympathy for his loneliness and admiration for his courage and his quick wits . |
| 15 | Knowing Louis 's concern for the Holy Land in 1147 he had led the French army on the Second Crusade — he put it about that all he really wanted to do was put his own house in order , make proper provision for his children , and then he would be off on crusade in his lord 's company . |
| 16 | Some months earlier , in the autumn of 1182 , young Henry had once again asked his father to give him a principality , Normandy , so that he could make proper provision for his own knights . |
| 17 | In this event Philip might well have approved of any plan which would make proper provision for his half-sister and her husband , whether it was Aquitaine or even something more . |
| 18 | Anthony John Allen , aged 23 , of Huyton , Liverpool , was cleared by the appeal judges , along with William Willis , aged 23 , who had been given an 11-year sentence for his alleged part in the attack three years ago on a Southampton publican , his wife , and a barmaid . |
| 19 | The employer is entitled only to adequate protection for his business secrets : the concept of adequacy prevents the employee being restricted from using his general skills and knowledge . |
| 20 | His will , made on 30 November 1679 and proved on 1 April 1680 , shows him in possession of lands in Essex and Ireland ; it made modest but adequate provision for his wife Martha , daughter of John Ireland of Hale in Lancashire , and for a son and three daughters . |
| 21 | Sobhuza , however , possessed political skills in abundance and he cunningly blended appeal to tribal custom with a capacity to manage economic and social change for his kingdom without weakening his autocratic power base . |
| 22 | During spring 1986 his government arranged for a number of ‘ spontaneous ’ demonstrations of support in the West Bank , and a series of newspaper articles appeared confirming popular support for his efforts and denouncing the PLO 's betrayal of an historic opportunity for peace . |
| 23 | And it was his skill as a communicator , mainly through television , that created the impression of towering popular support for his programme . |
| 24 | An ordinary freedom-fighter or revolutionary — and there were a great many of them operating in the Holy Land at the time — might well have won popular support for his actions , but could not have been acclaimed as the Messiah . |
| 25 | In the mid-term congressional elections ( November 1918 ) he had appealed for wide popular support for his peace policy , but the voters , mostly influenced by domestic affairs , had given his Republican opponents a majority in both the Senate and the House of Representatives . |
| 26 | Exploiting Boniface 's injudicious move , Edward sought to rekindle popular support for his Scottish campaign by a debate in parliament on his and the papal claims , in the course of which he employed no little historical research to justify his own rights , to refute the pope 's , and to persuade the public of all this . |
| 27 | Again , however , he was confronted by the problem which he had failed to overcome in 1945 : how to translate popular support for his ideas into popular votes or votes in parliament ? |
| 28 | Opinion polls , however , suggested widespread popular sympathy for his predicament . |
| 29 | Cecil 's immediate motive in proposing the peace Ballot was to outflank Lord Rothermere 's claims of growing public support for his isolationist and anti-League position . |
| 30 | There has been no strike in agriculture since 1923 and the instinct of the farm worker is to shun rather than seek the kind of publicity which would be required to engender public support for his cause . |