Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [noun] for his " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gradually it emerged that his concern for his country was the decisive factor in his changed attitude . |
| 2 | Throughout Prisoner Genet again insists that his reasons for his identifications across race and culture were incorrigibly personal . |
| 3 | Yet such evidence as there is suggests that his love for his wife had been deepened by the way she had stood by him during his years in prison . |
| 4 | It was just as well that he would soon be yoked to Virginia , so that his desire for his headstrong gypsy would never be allowed free rein . |
| 5 | In addition he was able to acquire an heiress and her estates for his eldest son , Walter . |
| 6 | He strung the Poles along to the very end in order to keep their enthusiasm for his cause and their manpower for his army . |
| 7 | BARRY HEARN made millions out of — and for — snooker and has subsequently spent mi His rivals pretend to loath him , some actually do , and his enthusiasm for his players , boxers and loadsamoney schemes can appear OTT . |
| 8 | He was ordained deacon in 1870 , and priest in 1872 , but in his first curacy he fell foul of both his vicar and his bishop for his heterodox beliefs ; the former asked him to leave the parish and the latter delayed his ordination . |
| 9 | The latter are clearly evidenced by Gilgamesh , who contemptuously repudiates the normally irresistible advances of Ishtar , goddess of love , but whose feelings for his friend Enkidu are ‘ like those of a man for a woman ’ . |
| 10 | Reviled by Romanians almost as much as his parents for his playboy lifestyle and debauchery , he had been captured on Dec. 22 and paraded before the cameras at the television station in Bucharest ( the revolutionary headquarters of the National Salvation Front ) . |