Example sentences of "[pron] for his " in BNC.
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| 1 | May claim thee for his pains . |
| 2 | They say Koons is a major artist who sacrifices nothing for his work . |
| 3 | Whereas Flynn was at the other end of the scale , for , despite his external charm , he really seemed to care little about anybody 's well-being — possibly because he cared nothing for his own . |
| 4 | But he does nothing for his studies . |
| 5 | He was going to Brazil and agreed to help me , but he wanted nothing for his help . |
| 6 | An but the National Health for his er , he got medical treatment for himself , but there 's nothing for his family , or his children , they had to pay the Doctor . |
| 7 | Over the years it had become apparent that Constance considered Brian a person of little consequence and that , this being the case , she would not have minded if he had hired the Albert Hall to denounce her as a barbarian and certainly cared nothing for his kitchen sulks and drawing-room sarcasm . |
| 8 | He cared nothing for his wife and daughter and they must wipe him from their minds . |
| 9 | Long , unkempt hair , several missing teeth , and a nose that looked as if it had met more than one fist in its owner 's lifetime did nothing for his general appearance . |
| 10 | He will certainly be most unlikely to agree a very high price if he is to run the risk of getting absolutely nothing for his money . |
| 11 | The Troon man , who declared early in the tournament that the lack of atmosphere in the absence of players such as Nick Faldo , Fred Couples and Greg Norman did nothing for his game , went on to denounce the event as ‘ a bit of an amateur sham ’ and suggested it should not be among the counting tournaments for Ryder Cup selection . |
| 12 | Can not you see him as well as myself ; Is he not sitting behind me at the bed 's head , to seize upon me for his victim , as soon as I have breathed my last ? ’ |
| 13 | I had seen newspaper photos of him since his release from the psikhushka , but they had n't prepared me for his gauntness , pallor , baldness . |
| 14 | That Nature form 'd me for his Lordship 's Slave . |
| 15 | ‘ Blaming me for his wife 's death and refusing to speak to me for seventeen years is hardly ‘ quarrelling ’ , ’ she retorted . |
| 16 | You know he blames me for his mother 's death ? ’ |
| 17 | Each of them seeks to use me for his own ends . ’ |
| 18 | He drinks and gambles and chases women and comes back to me for his dinner . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ If I say one of my contacts tipped me off , I expect you 'll pester me for his name . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ Heathcliff has sent me for his son , and I ca n't go back without him , ’ he said . |
| 21 | The cherry berets dragged the bewildered old montagnard away with a brusqueness which inspired no confidence in me for his future prospects . |
| 22 | I mean I w when I was dropping dead with exhaustion one evening I said to him look Tony , the there 's I 've cooked a chicken , there 's a big chicken cooling on the table and there there were red sauce , potatoes , gravy , I said , stick the lot on a plate a micro and , you know , film it over , microwave it oh well I sha n't bother to eat anything now of course he was paying me for his food |
| 23 | The husband had a right to dispose of them for his own benefit while he lived , and his wife had no power of disposition during that time , though , if she survived him , and they had not been disposed of , they would be hers again . |
| 24 | Time and again he had asked her to cook them for his supper , when she could at least bake them in a hot oven . |
| 25 | When Hanns wrote an article for the London magazine Ballet Today about South African achievements , he described it as having ‘ all the qualities which a good valentine should possess … the girls flit , skip and drift hither and thither in pairs or threes , giggle coyly and point with gloved hands , while the sentimental , romantic Pierrot searches among them for his true love . |
| 26 | Between 1853 and 1870 CD gave upwards of 500 public readings from his own works , mostly after 1858 when he began to give them for his own profit . |
| 27 | I remember a case where an architect designer , without excuse bent over the shoulder of his employee , a brilliant 22-year-old designer , and put his name unashamedly to the novel ideas and design of the young man , claiming them for his own . |
| 28 | Account executives at the insurer , who monitor its agents , had Wright marked down as a man with constant cash flow problems — he was always hassling them for his commission . |
| 29 | Angrily , as if he blamed them for his loneliness , he set about his fri ed eggs and bacon . |
| 30 | Originally we were planning to reward the first ten correct answers drawn out of the bag with a wonderful Sigma-Ray joystick , but unfortunately Markie ( feeble minded fool that he is ) mistook them for his laundry and took them home to be washed by his Mum . |