Example sentences of "his [noun] [prep] [pron] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Like Julia , in the earlier book , Beth catches things ‘ on the hop ’ — almost as a student whose mind is more imaginative than philosophical will react to a first reading of Bishop Berkeley by quickly turning his head , hoping to witness the sudden appearance or disappearance of those external objects which are supposed to depend on his perception of them for their existence . |
| 2 | Although ‘ t is easy to see that he could not leave you behind , nor take his eyes off you for a moment . |
| 3 | From the back of the hummock a figure appeared and began moving unhurriedly up the hill on an irregular route , at times coming obliquely towards the Friar , and then abruptly changing direction and seeming to go away from him : thus tacking and weaving the man was as inconspicuous as a partridge on ploughland , so that if the Friar turned his eyes from him for a moment he was difficult to rediscover , so perfectly did he merge with the duns , browns , russets , and half-greens of the wood . |
| 4 | But his concentration was poor these days : he could hardly keep his mind on anything for more than a moment … and even when he heard what the Padre said it made no sense … " the Editor of The Times as wise as God Himself ! " |
| 5 | The user has attempted to submit his package to himself for approval . |
| 6 | I have seldom , before or since , seen a man spend so much time with his car , be so obsessive about it , put so much work into it , understand it so well and be so unable to divert his attention from it for so much as a minute . |
| 7 | Facing this creature , like a matador in front of a bull , is a man who never takes his eye off it for a moment . |
| 8 | ‘ The sergeant-major has had his eye on you for several weeks , ’ Trentham continued , ‘ and feels you 'd be a good candidate for promotion to lance-corporal . |
| 9 | Mr. Kasner 's explanation in his evidence to me for thus acting and accepting the proposal was the following : |
| 10 | My father seemed to be happy to conduct his affairs through them for long enough . |
| 11 | He rented me a projector , and because he wanted to retire sold his movies to me for a few pesetas a twelve-reeler . |
| 12 | He turned his back on them for a moment , hands planted on his hips . |
| 13 | Not the clankings and gratings of the Zoo which lay off in the distance to his right , now obscured by the trees over which he had flown in the night , but the call of a thousand birds whose busyness and life shook his fears off him for a time and replaced them with a sense of wonder . |
| 14 | At 0810 he gathered his staff around him for the daily conference to discuss the day ahead , before taking the morning parade of those attending various courses at the school , to ensure that everyone had turned up for work . |
| 15 | A girl and her boyfriend had fallen out and he went round to her house the next evening to apologise , taking his dog with him for the walk . |
| 16 | He has planned his reunion with her for so long , that it almost ceases to become real by the time it actually occurs . |
| 17 | as if he knew that he only had to put his arms around her for her to immediately surrender , to succumb , a willing victim , to the force of his dark enchantment . |
| 18 | And when it is over , we will just disappear from your lives and Allah will wash His hands of you for ever . ’ |
| 19 | If he 'd had his hands on her for one minute , he could have given her something to remember him by ; if only he 'd spat a single obscenity into her ear before running off , it would have been something . |
| 20 | Housman then kept his version by him for the rest of his life , not collecting it in A Shropshire Lad , nor in his Last Poems ( 1922 ) . |
| 21 | In the unconscious of the men concerned , a part aims to give his mother a son , like himself , as an expression of his gratitude to her for bearing him into the world . |
| 22 | He put his arm round her for a moment . |
| 23 | Leonora felt better once she was in the taxi , particularly since Penry not only held her hand , but kept his arm round her for the entire journey , taking her mind very successfully off the evening ahead by the sheer joy of just being with him after a week apart . |