Example sentences of "[verb] for his [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Deng Xiaoping managed to stay alive and did not wish to wait for his own death before being given any credit . |
| 2 | Her ostensible motive was that one of the defendants , not content with court security , had arranged for his own — an off-duty policeman , packing two police-issue revolvers and , said the judge , ‘ enough ammunition to send to Sarajevo ’ . |
| 3 | Another reason given for his own preference was the ability of his favourite novel to ‘ allow pupils to be drawn into the emotional climate of the book . ’ |
| 4 | There was nothing to spare unless he used the rupee that he had been given for his own food . |
| 5 | He will be enmeshed for his own good in the electric wires which bring with them life-giving energy to make the farm fertile . |
| 6 | We think he is so distressed that we fear for his own safety and are now very concerned for him . |
| 7 | At best , it is a tour de force , a piece of self-conscious " theatre " manipulated for his own purpose . |
| 8 | If he wins a subsequent bout also by disqualification , then he must be withdrawn for his own safety , since it is obvious that , in this tournament at least , he is not protecting himself adequately . |
| 9 | In 1155 , the customs confirmed by Louis VII for Lorris on the royal demesne established that no parishioner should have to pay taxes on food intended for his own consumption or on grain grown by his own labour ; he should be exempt from tolls when he took his produce to the neighbouring towns of Etampes , Orléans , Milly , or Melun ; if required for a chevauchée , he must be allowed to return home at the end of the day ; the only labour service he owed his lord was in carrying seigneurial wine to Orléans twice a year ; and the burgesses of Lorris as a whole were exempted from seigneurial tailles . |
| 10 | However he remains unseen because Sauron can not pierce the shadows he made for his own defence . |
| 11 | The themes centred around the lone legionnaire who has given up his past for the Legion , yet still longs for his former life and forgotten loves , his home and his happiness . |
| 12 | One of the accusations used and levelled against er against Christianity against the , the evangelical message , against things like the , the mission of Graham and , and others is that it , it does n't meet the needs the , the material needs of people but if you deal with the persons spiritual needs , if their sins are forgiven , those problems that are causing the material problem , it 's amazing how there are dealt with as well , the best way to sober up a person , the best way to deal with a person who 's an alcoholic , the best way to deal with a person who is a drug addict , the best way to deal with a person who , who commits adultery is not by telling them the wrongs of those things , it 's not by trying to , to , to do , to , to , you know , to , to counsel them it 's presenting the gospel allowing Jesus Christ to come into their lives and to forgive them , that will make the person sober quicker than all the counselling in the world and Paul says I brought you the most important the fundamental thing , that Christ died for our sins Paul again when he 's writing to the Romans in chapter five and verse eight he says but God demonstrates his own love towards us , in that while we were yet sinners Christ died for us so God did in Jesus Christ what we could n't do for ourselves , so all of you have sin , so all of my sin , and he came and he died on the cross and as he was dying there was that transmit there , for he was n't dying for his own sin buy he was dying for your sin and for mine , it was all piled on him and so when we except what Christ has done , when we come to that place and yes I believe that you died for me , |
| 13 | The banister of the back staircase has the same pattern as the glazing bars of a glass-fronted cabinet Lutyens designed for his own house . |
| 14 | The bed is a copy of one of a pair that Lutyens designed for his own eldest daughters . |
| 15 | A report of the Consultative Committee of the Board of Education in 1931 ( The Primary School ) contained words which were repeated by the Plowden Report in 1967 , " What a wise and good parent would desire for his own children , that a nation must desire for all children . " |
| 16 | He 'll be clinging to the hope that we 'll keep his father 's bones safe for our part — and Isambard he wants for his own . ’ |
| 17 | He had come for his own ends to this island , and used it . |
| 18 | He says ; not once has he lost his liberty and we say for his own sake and others there must be consideration about whether he should be put in a secure place . |
| 19 | The first house he built for his own occupation was a stopgap , put up to live in until something more suitable was acquired . |
| 20 | Trying to repair the damage done to McKendrick 's positive face , he asks to be excused for his own inadequacies : Anderson 's upholding of the modesty maxim is augmented by the emphasis he puts on the sincerity of his apology ( the tonic syllable in the first sentence falling on " am " ) , stressing that he is fulfilling the felicity conditions ( Searle : 1969 ) for that speech act . |
| 21 | Whoever cares for his own safety is lost ; but if a man will let himself be lost for my sake and for the Gospel that man is safe ( Mark 8:35 ) . |
| 22 | The commander of a ship , however , had additional perquisites which added to the value of his appointment , for it has been claimed that he could make as much as £1,500 in a single voyage from the fares paid by passengers , while he even had the right to sell for his own profit at the end of the voyage the dunnage , that is the bamboos and rattans employed to keep the cargo from shifting . |
| 23 | Why on earth should he want to , they 're only going to sell for his own work if he does n't . |
| 24 | After all , he 's old enough to answer for his own actions . |
| 25 | As subject , acting for his own interests , the later confusion of events — with Cordelia returned from France with soldiers to seek her father and secret letters passing to and fro — suddenly puts Gloucester in a dilemma . |
| 26 | And all this was reflected in a book of genius he was going to translate and embellish for his own ends . |
| 27 | Martinez draws sensitive portraits of hispanic life in LA , Mexico , Cuba and El Salvador , looking for his own centre and identity |
| 28 | If the Procurator was looking for his own pickings , it would have been in his interest to provoke a reaction that could be construed as hostile . |
| 29 | Looking for his own birth certificate for his own marriage , he found his mother 's too — in a desk in the house in King Street . |
| 30 | Cawarden 's entrepreneurial skills were used for his own benefit as well as that of the monarch . |