Example sentences of "[to-vb] for his [det] [noun] " 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 | Why on earth should he want to , they 're only going to sell for his own work if he does n't . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | After all , he 's old enough to answer for his own actions . |
| 5 | CONTRACTS have been signed for Glenn McCrory to challenge for his former IBF cruiserweight title in Moscow . |
| 6 | CONTRACTS have been signed for Glenn McCrory to challenge for his former IBF cruiserweight title in Moscow . |
| 7 | A highly sophisticated and well-read composer such as Britten could be expected to look for his own Hofmannsthal . |
| 8 | Every few minutes , he would break off to apologise for his own cynicism . |
| 9 | We would certainly like to him to come out of his own free will and that 's what we are trying to persuade him to do for his own good . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Promotion to officer class meant that he no longer had time to care for his own litters . |
| 12 | I shall nevertheless oblige him to dance for his own good . |
| 13 | Stateless societies are so constituted that the kaleidoscopic succession of concrete social situations provides the stimulus that motivates each individual to act for his own interest or for that of close kin and neighbours with whom he is so totally involved , in a manner which maintains the fabric of society … the lack of specialized roles and the resulting multiplex quality of social networks mean that neither economic nor political ends can be exclusively pursued by anyone to the detriment of society , because the ends are intertwined with each other and further channelled by ritual and controlled by the beliefs which ritual expresses . |
| 14 | At this last , Seton left them , to make for his own castle near Cockenzie , with his terrible news . |