Example sentences of "[det] [noun] for his [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He is persuaded to teach the talented Marin Marais but when he detects the young musician has little sympathy for his belief music is only an expression for sorrow , he returns to his hermit 's existence . |
| 2 | It turns out , from Flaubert 's travel notes , that the business-card was n't pinned in place by Monsieur Frotteur himself ; it was put there by the lithe and thoughtful Maxime du Camp , who had scampered ahead in the purple night and laid out this little mousetrap for his friend 's sensibility . |
| 3 | For thirty years , Clark has been obsessed with sex and death and has achieved some notoriety for his books Tulsa ( 1970 ) and Teenage Lust ( 1984 ) , in which his nude models have portrayed , in turn , lust , despair and boredom . |
| 4 | It took a few minutes for his eyes to adjust to the dimness , and he remained still , blinking hard , making out the man standing directly in front of him holding the shotgun , while on the stairs to his left another person — a woman ? — was also holding what looked like a small pistol on him . |
| 5 | In Damascus he would have loved baiting Marwan , the AP reporter , with Nick ; at the Comedy Store he would have laughed at the idea of the song someone had written for him — ‘ The Hills are Alive with the Sound of Bullets ’ ; , and my début at live interviews would have provided another entry for his file of great lines . |
| 6 | ‘ If you 're rich — not like us — you shake in some rubies for his lips , some sapphires for his eyes — or topazes , if you like them yellowy — ’ Caterina shifted , resisting ‘ — some diamonds for his fingernails and so forth , all the treasures you like , to make him beautiful as the sky , as the sea , as the earth , and then you murmur the secret formula … . ’ |
| 7 | Nevertheless , the table opposite will give you some idea of what to expect : for example , a man aged 30 investing just £25 a month could look forward to a cheque for £63,400 on his 65th birthday — with another £19,400 for his family if he died at the age of 80 . |
| 8 | When he arrived with his parents for the interview the headmaster took him to a field where a few golf holes were laid out , handed him a wedge and a bucket of balls , and told Jack to hit some shots at one of the greens while he organised some tea for his parents . |
| 9 | I have a few words for his ears alone . " |
| 10 | I know , he might have been a bit better , she , he had a fight , he had some Whiskers for his dinner last night , I tell him he ai n't |
| 11 | Minton used this setting for his drawing , Jam Session , which he produced as a cover design for the July-August 1949 issue of Our Time , a left-wing arts magazine . |
| 12 | But his solicitor Geoff Cardwell said Thompson had been worried about a man who had been carrying out some work for his ex-wife . |
| 13 | Afterwards they went shopping together and she helped him choose some shoes for his wife . |
| 14 | He was criticised by some officials for his victory speech in which he thanked the press ‘ from the heart of my bottom ’ . |
| 15 | He lost , and lost again at a by-election in February 1936 in Ross and Cromarty against Malcolm MacDonald [ q.v. ] , the National Government candidate and dominions secretary — another embarrassment for his father who was then angling for a cabinet post . |
| 16 | At both , he received cheques with which he intends to purchase a camera , some carpets for his house and perhaps enjoy a holiday with his wife Margaret . |
| 17 | The jealousy swept through Mr Trotter 's head as he idolized this person for his looks , popularity , he had got everything just right , whereas he was living in a poky little cottage , with is protective wife and his asthma . |
| 18 | First you mix the dough , then you pat it into shape , like a figure in a Nativity crib , with all his fingers , and little fingernails , you make them with a toothpick , and his face , not forgetting ears and nostrils and eyebrows , and you put in his navel , making a little indentation , and you roll some dough for his thingamajig . ’ |
| 19 | Each burgess paid 7d. a year and some service for his croft , men like Lambert the shoemaker and Orderic the swineherd . |
| 20 | Detective Furness had earned this nickname for his hair which , cropped unfashionably short , still glowed a vibrant rusty red . |
| 21 | Being Mario , that brought to mind his mother crying back in the camps because there was n't enough food to put on the table , and that led to considerations of the importance of the family in his life , of the value of tradition , thoughts of how Italian he was as well as American , of the kind of clean life America had offered , of his gratitude , of his feeling for his father who 'd made this giant move at such cost to himself , who had suffered so long and who now saw some chance for his kids of bettering themselves . |
| 22 | ‘ If you 're rich — not like us — you shake in some rubies for his lips , some sapphires for his eyes — or topazes , if you like them yellowy — ’ Caterina shifted , resisting ‘ — some diamonds for his fingernails and so forth , all the treasures you like , to make him beautiful as the sky , as the sea , as the earth , and then you murmur the secret formula … . ’ |
| 23 | Helmsman Mr Hodge received a Royal National Lifeboat Institution bronze medal in London earlier this week for his part in the rescue . |
| 24 | Worthington 's promotion to captain is the only good news this week for his club Sheffield Wednesday whose four England representatives — Andy Sinton , Chris Woods , Des Walker and Carlton Palmer — were all left out of the side to face Poland . |
| 25 | Chris Parry , whose home is in Welshpool , received the accolade this week for his stage lighting of the musical , Tommy . |
| 26 | Even if John Birt is forced to resign , he will be remembered fondly in some quarters for his role in killing off this golden turkey . |
| 27 | It 'll be some quest for his daughter then ? |
| 28 | In Bengal the women bathing in the rivers often use their overturned water jugs to keep themselves afloat when they swim , and the poet has used this incident for his simile : |
| 29 | and some bits for his camera . |
| 30 | Once again , I congratulate the hon. Member for Chislehurst on choosing this subject for his Bill . |