Example sentences of "fear for his [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We think he is so distressed that we fear for his own safety and are now very concerned for him . |
| 2 | Demands for a modest retinue were led by Hastings , who , as the Crowland chronicler makes clear , feared for his own position if the queen 's family were allowed to dominate the government . |
| 3 | Demands for a modest retinue were led by Hastings , who , as the Crowland chronicler makes clear , feared for his own position if the queen 's family were allowed to dominate the government . |
| 4 | Locked in a marriage with a wife who showed increasing signs of mental instability and whose health constantly brought her to the point of death , exhausted in his work and fearing for his own life and sanity , Eliot 's view of relations between the sexes is at its bleakest , as is shown not least in the epigraphs , which were originally further universalized by including ( in the draft synopsis ) , |
| 5 | Bayley , knowing this not to be the case , suspecting foul play and fearing for his own safety , refused to supply one . |