Example sentences of "and [adv] for his " in BNC.
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| 1 | A young lad , a boy ; probably still an adolescent and little for his age at that . |
| 2 | For it was in such fashion that lovers talked , Rosa knew , from the Mass on certain feast days : King Solomon became languid with love as he searched up and down for his beloved , whose breasts were like a young doe and her belly a heap of wheat . |
| 3 | To win him , she must hope for his defeat and long for his humiliation . |
| 4 | As Paul states in 1 Timothy 5:8 , ‘ If anyone does not provide for his relatives , and especially for his immediate family , he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever . ’ |
| 5 | It appears that the farm-worker of [ the 1900s ] paid great attention to the type of corduroy he chose for his everyday clothes , and especially for his walking-out dress . |
| 6 | It is for his Bible and not for his controversial books that Tyndale is commemorated . |
| 7 | Henry II , moreover , had performed homage while King and although it was homage for his continental possessions and not for his kingdom , this was a step to which none of his predecessors as Kings of England had ever steeled themselves . |
| 8 | Thus a car dealer does not obtain the protection and that is so even if he is buying the vehicle for his own private purposes and not for his business purposes , Stevenson v. Beverley Bentinck ( 1976 C.A. ) . |
| 9 | ‘ I want him to reach the stage where he will be talked about for his golf and not for his petulance — we 've had enough . |
| 10 | As this is a soliloquy , it reflects Brutus 's true thoughts , which are all for the general good of Rome , and not for his own ends . |
| 11 | Trivulzio was a condottiero , a general in a private army , and fought well and loyally for his Sforza duke , first against the French and then against the Venetians . |
| 12 | Francisco Alves Mendes Filo , known as Chico Mendes , was renowned nationally and internationally for his work in defence of the forest of Acre . |
| 13 | One of these writers , the poet Hölderlin , claims our particular attention here for the new attitude towards Germany that his commitment to the Greek ideal entails — and also for his intuitive awareness of a greater complexity underlying " the spirit of Greece " than Winckelmann or his immediate successors had been able to recognize . |
| 14 | A distinguished and powerful draughtsman , Julian has ranged far and wide both in this country and abroad for his landscapes , from the extremely colourful Devil 's Dyke to the bold but featureless Birling Gap . |
| 15 | He had tried to rise above them , and had fallen back among them , there to be hated once for his attempt , and twice for his failure ! |
| 16 | The purchaser claimed under two heads , first for the capital loss and secondly for his loss of profits — the latter head being based on the difference over three years between the profits made at the machine 's actual rate of output and the higher profits which would have been made at the warranted rate of output . |