Example sentences of "[pron] [noun sg] for [noun] [vb -s] " in BNC.
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| 31 | His lust for life has now lead him to take piano lessons . |
| 32 | The subject of his poetry stretches from sex and sin to the downfall of C&W stars , and his lust for language prevails . |
| 33 | The first visible sign of his drive for progress has already been set in the nuclear field . |
| 34 | His love for Olivia obliges him to take her , with her husband , as passengers to Virginia , where Stukeley hopes to escape from debts and the legal action of certain victims of his villainy . |
| 35 | His quest for glory has caused him to stretch his energies to the absolute limit . |
| 36 | The signing in July of a peace agreement with the UPDM [ see p. 37602 ] , whose guerrillas had been active in Gulu district , was followed by the return of UPDM leader Alimadi from exile , but the response to his call for UPDM rebels to lay down their arms was limited . |
| 37 | His taste for walking remains unabated and he has actually visited all the sites to which he so clearly refers . |
| 38 | He is currently 114th , his reward for top-four finishes in the recent German and English Opens , and no fewer than 11 under-par rounds from four big tournaments during August . |
| 39 | A FEUDING doctor who was awarded a record £150,000 damages against his partner for slander has been forced to give up his battle to get her to pay the cash . |
| 40 | What future for farm shows ? |
| 41 | A copy of the maternity certificate where the original has been returned to the employee , for example , where your liability for SMP has ended . |
| 42 | Although we may now know much more about the chemistry of the human brain , our capacity for thought has probably not changed much over the past five thousand years . |
| 43 | Our desire for food tends to vary from day to day . |
| 44 | Nevertheless , we have nearly 2,000 CTC members in Scotland and assuming an average of around £20 per member , this amounts to almost £40,000 of income , of which our request for £750 seems modest in the extreme , particularly since we now pay the subscriptions I mentioned . |
| 45 | She said : ‘ Your mania for sentences has dried up your heart . ’ |
| 46 | He 'll never let you get away with anything in a ward even if he 's been pining with unrequited love for your aunt for God knows how many years . ’ |
| 47 | The number of animals killed to satisfy our taste for meat dwarfs those used in the other main areas of controversy , those of experimentation and hunting . |
| 48 | You should find that your taste for salt becomes less as you progress through the diet programme . |