Example sentences of "his [noun] [vb pp] for [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the Irish troubles peaked in the 1970s , it was suggested that an employee based in England might be able to decline to go to Belfast on company business , even though his contract provided for that . |
| 2 | After Henry VIII 's death and the accession of the nine-year-old Edward VI his subjects hoped for some relaxation of the Forest law . |
| 3 | As they crept slowly forward over the plain his eyes searched for those tiny villages made of mud with their bamboo groves and their ponds ; and though the plain was perfectly flat the villages were somehow hidden in its folds , blending with it . |
| 4 | Some of his commissions continued for many years ; at both Chirk Castle and Erddig he supervised the landscaping for twenty-four years . |
| 5 | She opened the door and stared in astonishment at the tall , strongly built man who was standing with his hand raised for another assault on her bell . |