Example sentences of "[adj] [to-vb] for his [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His skills as a coach ( the England player Philip Sharpe was one of his discoveries ) , his knowledge of players , his presence at cricket 's great occasions and his ability to entice the great and the famous to play for his occasional XIs combined to make him , in his own way , one of the game 's celebrities . |
| 2 | One day when Modi finally turned up he was penniless , unable to account for his lost weekend , hungry and dirty . |
| 3 | Her husband had not realised that she was dying , and the subsequent shock was so great that he became unable to care for his six-year-old daughter who also began to lose weight and perform badly at school . |
| 4 | The emperor , however , was not inclined to intervene for his own amusement , but to take cases which came to him through the hierarchy of appeal . |
| 5 | Andrew Cunningham , who had been fortunate in having been one of the men brought up to the surface to erect a fence round the subsidence , volunteered to go back down into the unknown to search for his missing colleagues . |
| 6 | And Allen — well , after the way the Raiders treated him , he will be ready to explode for his new team . |
| 7 | And Allen — well , after the way the Raiders treated him , he will be ready to explode for his new team . |