Example sentences of "his [noun sg] for [noun prp] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His support for Iraq has won him backing from all quarters , from western-educated intellectuals to Muslim Brothers . |
| 2 | The ideas and concepts of the prison structure in Scotland — outlined in a speech at the conference by Alan Walker , the deputy chief executive of the SPS — so impressed a Latvian delegation that they wrote to Scotland 's Minister of State , Lord Fraser of Carmyllie , asking his permission for Walker to visit the country . |
| 3 | Now he acknowledged to himself that his admiration for Sarah had caused him to overlook young Martha 's attractions . |
| 4 | The Prime Minister has repeated his plea for Scotland to remain in the United Kingdom warning that independence would lead to bitterness and chaos . |
| 5 | The Harlequin man had invaded Jaq 's Imperial Tarot with the slickness of a lashworm snatching some flesh from a passer-by , and now that damned individual was contemptuously trailing his cloak for Jaq to follow . |
| 6 | His search for Tess took him first to Flintcomb-Ash , where he discovered she had never used her married name . |
| 7 | Now Wally Watmough made room at his desk for Frankie to sit beside him . |
| 8 | Prokofiev threaded two leitmotifs through his score for Cinderella to mark the heroine and her Fairy Godmother . |
| 9 | His departure for Australia came at just about the right time . |
| 10 | Even the sceptical Horace Walpole was impressed at the result , as his diary for mid-September testifies : |
| 11 | Nor did his consideration for Stella escape Lucy 's ponderings — nor his thoughtfulness in allowing Bill to have time off , which enabled him to be near his wife during her period in hospital . |
| 12 | ‘ Hardly a matter for the police , is it ? ’ she said , wondering if his concern for Berenice had turned his brain . |
| 13 | This was not merely to reassure his wife , but to make clear to Sarah that his love for Elizabeth had never wavered . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Chamoun himself was less of a Francophile than an Anglophile and his contempt for Nasser bore a strange similarity to the equally irrational hatred expressed for the Egyptian leader by Eden 's Suez adventure would be successful in deposing Nasser . |
| 17 | Montgomery remained seated at the gleaming table , and motioned with his hand for Meryl to sit down opposite . |
| 18 | As pope , his affection for Germany reasserted itself . |