Example sentences of "[adj] for his " in BNC.
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| 1 | The royal commission on awards to inventors awarded him £12,000 in 1948 for his work on the bridge . |
| 2 | It looked too frail for his hand . |
| 3 | He finished last of the Europeans , two behind David Feherty , who had a 70 for his best round of the tournament . |
| 4 | His voyage was outstanding for his persistence and seamanship and in 1833 he was awarded the royal premium of the Royal Geographical Society . |
| 5 | It was just right for his small cine projector , and as many as could be packed in , watched happy films about ‘ Fulham in the springtime ’ or ‘ The London Parks ’ or the antics of Mickey Mouse . |
| 6 | We have a unique stage here just right for his talents . ’ |
| 7 | Clive Brittain will withdraw Mystiko if there is heavy overnight rain , but the conditions were just right for his big winner yesterday — Love Of Silver . |
| 8 | Everything had to be precisely right for his guest . |
| 9 | In addition , the occupational therapist needs to go into the appropriate scheme for the disabled person to ensure that the work is right for his or her requirements . |
| 10 | His dress was too rich for his usual strenuous hunting , nor were there hounds abroad , or Iorwerth would have known and signalled it long ago . |
| 11 | This cleared up in time for him to jump in Zurich , however , and then he returned to Whitaker 's Yorkshire stable for his final preparation before the long flight from Frankfurt to California today . |
| 12 | If just these three are taken , Trollope 's view of women seems to be quite reasonable , though rather odd for his time , and encompasses all types — from the ordinary to the extraordinary — without really saying one is better than the other . |
| 13 | Knox tried to create as wide a base as possible for his theocracy . |
| 14 | ‘ So it will be possible for his father to leave hospital as soon as suitable accommodation is arranged ? ’ |
| 15 | He made it as easy as possible for his clergy to take the oath , and he acknowledged that his friends who did so acted in as good conscience as he had in refusing it . |
| 16 | Same team , similar bike — Capirossi has kept things as simple as possible for his first season as defending world champion |
| 17 | If a left-wing politician is genuinely anathematised it is not possible for his opponent to pay him a higher compliment . |
| 18 | Meanwhile , as the Century was nearing completion , Gould was at pains to predict the most popular subject possible for his next publication . |
| 19 | In 1346 Archbishop Stratford was ordered to read to the clergy and laity assembled in St Paul 's churchyard a recently discovered Franco-Norman agreement ( actually concluded in 1339 ! ) to invade England ; publication was to be accompanied by a sermon and a solemn procession , ‘ so that by this means the people of the kingdom might be roused to esteem the king more fervently and pray more devoutly for his expedition in order that he may keep the people safe from Gallic machinations ’ . |
| 20 | He is too absurd for his own good . |
| 21 | Although the portrait was finished Lipchitz felt loath to pay Modigliani so little for his work , so he invented reasons for extra sittings . |
| 22 | His book of verse , Lucida Intervalla ( 1679 ) , does little for his reputation as a poet . |
| 23 | His earlier complete reversal of his position had done little for his credibility and now as he went after a tax cut his touch was decidedly uncertain . |
| 24 | There was little for his comfort . |
| 25 | He 's a doctor , a Chinese guy , works out in the New Territories , saves lives on a daily basis and gets paid very little for his considerable sacrifices and hard work . |
| 26 | GREEN DOLLAR proved gilt-edged for his trainer Eric Wheeler on Saturday — and the gelding 's still got plenty of work to do . |
| 27 | Legend has it that Oliver Cromwell on his way to lay siege to Middleton Hall during the Civil War found the old packhorse bridge too narrow for his cannons and wagons and so had the bridge widened . |
| 28 | In a speech on Aug. 15 , 1991 , Prince Hans Adam maintained , however , that it was not practicable for his small principality to become a full member of the European Communities . |
| 29 | Moeri considered these discs unnecessary for his low-pressure reaction , but he says Givaudan insisted on them ‘ because they were fashionable on all their equipment at the time ’ . |
| 30 | He too repeated the assertion that a corporation could not sue for libel in respect of a charge of corruption because it can not be guilty of corruption , but this assertion was unnecessary for his decision in the case and was obiter . |