Example sentences of "[det] [noun] for his " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Bakker also took $3.7m of that money for his own use . |
| 2 | He is persuaded to teach the talented Marin Marais but when he detects the young musician has little sympathy for his belief music is only an expression for sorrow , he returns to his hermit 's existence . |
| 3 | It turns out , from Flaubert 's travel notes , that the business-card was n't pinned in place by Monsieur Frotteur himself ; it was put there by the lithe and thoughtful Maxime du Camp , who had scampered ahead in the purple night and laid out this little mousetrap for his friend 's sensibility . |
| 4 | Josh only gave him some whisky for his own good . |
| 5 | Old Spannerbreaker picks up another award for his moody performance in a series of popular ads . |
| 6 | For thirty years , Clark has been obsessed with sex and death and has achieved some notoriety for his books Tulsa ( 1970 ) and Teenage Lust ( 1984 ) , in which his nude models have portrayed , in turn , lust , despair and boredom . |
| 7 | His best guess was that the reference was to Nerys , that his unconscious mind had been looking for comfort in the prospect that Wayne would at least be with his mother , in which case he decided that there was probably some hope for his mental state after all . |
| 8 | It also gives him practice in planning outings and taking some responsibility for his own actions . |
| 9 | It took a few minutes for his eyes to adjust to the dimness , and he remained still , blinking hard , making out the man standing directly in front of him holding the shotgun , while on the stairs to his left another person — a woman ? — was also holding what looked like a small pistol on him . |
| 10 | In Damascus he would have loved baiting Marwan , the AP reporter , with Nick ; at the Comedy Store he would have laughed at the idea of the song someone had written for him — ‘ The Hills are Alive with the Sound of Bullets ’ ; , and my début at live interviews would have provided another entry for his file of great lines . |
| 11 | ‘ If you 're rich — not like us — you shake in some rubies for his lips , some sapphires for his eyes — or topazes , if you like them yellowy — ’ Caterina shifted , resisting ‘ — some diamonds for his fingernails and so forth , all the treasures you like , to make him beautiful as the sky , as the sea , as the earth , and then you murmur the secret formula … . ’ |
| 12 | Nevertheless , the table opposite will give you some idea of what to expect : for example , a man aged 30 investing just £25 a month could look forward to a cheque for £63,400 on his 65th birthday — with another £19,400 for his family if he died at the age of 80 . |
| 13 | When he arrived with his parents for the interview the headmaster took him to a field where a few golf holes were laid out , handed him a wedge and a bucket of balls , and told Jack to hit some shots at one of the greens while he organised some tea for his parents . |
| 14 | I have a few words for his ears alone . " |
| 15 | I know , he might have been a bit better , she , he had a fight , he had some Whiskers for his dinner last night , I tell him he ai n't |
| 16 | Minton used this setting for his drawing , Jam Session , which he produced as a cover design for the July-August 1949 issue of Our Time , a left-wing arts magazine . |
| 17 | The Dialogue is one of the pieces Purcell included in the Guildhall songbook : he seems to have compiled this manuscript for his young lady singing pupils , and several of the items in it show similar signs of revision and re-working . |
| 18 | But his solicitor Geoff Cardwell said Thompson had been worried about a man who had been carrying out some work for his ex-wife . |
| 19 | " You may have this child for his brief life on earth , but after that , remember , he returns to me . " |
| 20 | Afterwards they went shopping together and she helped him choose some shoes for his wife . |
| 21 | But there were times when he had to hold his tongue , if only to ensure that he could keep on using this fool for his own ends . |
| 22 | He was criticised by some officials for his victory speech in which he thanked the press ‘ from the heart of my bottom ’ . |
| 23 | He lost , and lost again at a by-election in February 1936 in Ross and Cromarty against Malcolm MacDonald [ q.v. ] , the National Government candidate and dominions secretary — another embarrassment for his father who was then angling for a cabinet post . |
| 24 | At both , he received cheques with which he intends to purchase a camera , some carpets for his house and perhaps enjoy a holiday with his wife Margaret . |
| 25 | Taylor makes five changes from Oslo , foremost among them yet another chance for his favourite Barnes , this time used as a front-line partner for QPR 's Ferdinand . |
| 26 | Then she had to go back to the shop to get our fish and chips , so we bundled up the rest of the wood and , as it was dark , ventured out to see if Dad could find some customers for his new business . |
| 27 | The jealousy swept through Mr Trotter 's head as he idolized this person for his looks , popularity , he had got everything just right , whereas he was living in a poky little cottage , with is protective wife and his asthma . |
| 28 | First you mix the dough , then you pat it into shape , like a figure in a Nativity crib , with all his fingers , and little fingernails , you make them with a toothpick , and his face , not forgetting ears and nostrils and eyebrows , and you put in his navel , making a little indentation , and you roll some dough for his thingamajig . ’ |
| 29 | Each burgess paid 7d. a year and some service for his croft , men like Lambert the shoemaker and Orderic the swineherd . |
| 30 | Detective Furness had earned this nickname for his hair which , cropped unfashionably short , still glowed a vibrant rusty red . |